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Take a bow

And for Sheila Lennon, recently blogrolled here, a song, Sheila Take a Bow:

Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear
And don’t go home tonight
Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you
The one that you love and who loves you

The Smiths’s song for Sheila: appropriately to the point: keep booting the grime of this world in the crotch!

It’s a dog’s life in today’s world

The other day we were persuaded that our dog appeared to be in need of having his anal ducts manipulated. I had no idea dogs had anal ducts or that these could be in need of manual intervention (and all I can say is thank god for latex gloves, too). As it turned out, his “scooting or dragging the anal area” around the grass or rug was a red herring — nowhere near his bottom, incidentally — as his glands or sacs turned out to be in fine working order. At any rate… Before I took him to the vet, I checked the web for information. It seems that searching for [dog "anal gland"] turns up only humour sites, such as the Wacky Sayings Archive, and while this page wasn’t at all helpful in explaining what might be my dog’s problem, there is some funny stuff here, including outgoing telephone answering machine messages such as:

This is not an answering machine. This is a telepathic thought-recording device. After the tone, think about your name, your number and your reason for calling, and I’ll think about returning your call.

There are several other headings here (Label Instructions, Signs and Notices, Product Warnings), including Bad Headlines, which reminded me of Sheila Lennon’s recent chortling over nonsense headlines (and sorry I can’t make the exact link to Sheila’s entry — something to do with registering — but it’s better to go to her main page, anyway, and read from the top):

Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advice
Autos Killing 110 a Day — Let’s Resolve to Do Better
… and, my favourite:
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

Given our “progress” I hope that last one doesn’t turn out to be prescient. (Check out Frank’s expose of the views of James Leon Holmes, a Bush nominee to the Federal Bench: Mr. Holmes appears ready to take incarceration to a whole new level of pre-Bastille standards….) And speaking of the Bastille, which “was a prison where kings and queens usually locked up people who didn’t agree with their decisions. To a lot of French, the Bastille prison was a symbol of the corrupt system run by the kings and queens. On July 14, 1789 the Revolution began when a large group stormed the Bastille prison,” you have to check out Betsy Devine’s entry on the establishment of “Free Speech Zones.” Science fiction today, reality tomorrow?