Rejuvenation

You'd laugh and think that I had lost my remaining marbles if you heard me talking to my dog in the privacy of our home or automobile.   But then, having heard other dog owners speak to their animals in public, often in baby voice which, incidentally, I don't use, I think I am not alone.

One time in the dog park, I saw an elegant lady standing about 15 feet from the water fountain, her dog 15 feet away from her in the same direction, that is 30 feet from the water,  inviting him to approach the water bowl: "Come Rocky, rejuvenate yourself!"

"Rejuvenate"?   What kind of dog was it to understand a four syllable word?  Did he understand, say, "reprehensible", or "anthropomorphic"?   In any case, while I was there, Rocky didn't come, preferring instead to continue his current activities.   Who knows, some people train their dogs to understand more than other dogs.  My dog understands plenty, probably more than I give him credit for.

In general, I believe than dogs know more about us than we'll ever know about them, even if they cannot express their knowledge in a language understandable to us.   Yet, there may be something more there.  Sometimes I suspect that dogs have a direct line to heaven, being innocent and sinless creatures.

Brit Slang

Some of Britain's obscure words compiled by the library:

Baffies -- slippers (east coast of Scotland)
Bishybarnabee -- ladybird (Norfolk)
Bobowler -- large moth (Birmingham)
Deff -- to ignore, split up, pack in, avoid (Birmingham)
Dodderman -- snail (Norfolk/Suffolk)
Gopping -- unattractive ( Manchester)
Guddle -- to rummage about (Northumberland and parts of Scotland)
Gurtlush -- the best ( Bristol)
On the box -- off sick from work (Black Country)
Ronking -- smelly, disgusting (Black Country)
Tittermatorter -- see-saw (Norfolk)
Tranklements -- ornaments (Black Country)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/Now-a-database-of-Brits-weirdest-words/articleshow/9100005.cms

Disparagement

While I am expected to publish here disparaging remarks about certain known persons and institutions, I must disappoint you, dear reader, because my attorney has strongly advised me against doing so, or else. See you in court!

Extra Strength

Feeling lonely, socially rejected?

Take an extra strength non-aspirin pain reliever (acetaminophen)! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091222154742.htm

The Bell Tolls

"It's not over," said my ex last night, as we were watching a disaster of a film, For Whom the Bell Tolls, a 1943 gory Technicolor opera, with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper, personally chosen for the roles by Ernest Hemingway himself, filled with mountain scenes all shot in the studio, over the top musical score by Victor Young, which was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and managed to win one (for supporting actress.)

So why, this morning, I think it is? One more letter to send...

~

She said, "Be of good cheer!"

Ghost

A ghostly looking woman, who said she believed in reincarnation, but does not intend to die anyway, told me that she had read in a flyer handed out by Jehovah's Witnesses, that God answers all prayers, except that God operates on a different time from the human time. (Makes sense?) I only nodded, and she then asked me what my astrological sign was.

Recently, I reported to a friend that Anglican Archbishop James Ussher had estimated in 1650 that the Earth was created October 23, 4004 BC (Julian), 9PM, and my friend asked: "In what time zone?"

Walking across the second floor pedestrian bridge between buildings yesterday afternoon, cold rain falling on both sides, I felt like a ghost myself, faltering, devoid of energy, life. I took the elevator down, stepped into the gym, and in the locker room met my old Chinese friend H., who immediately asked where I had been. I briefly mentioned personal problems, and he patted me on the back.

Today marks exactly two months since the shipwreck,

The newspaper reports that Roman Polanski, under house detention in his Swiss chalet, is editing there his latest film entitled Ghost. Tiger Woods in the meantime, is hiding on his yacht, named Privacy. The other day I told somebody that I wished I had had their problems.