11 Aug 2008
reactionry
Paduk Tip
Or: Snow Sinister
Or: Civilize & Housebreak 'Em With A Krug
Or: "Toodle This!" From Yankee Doodle
Or: Muffin' The Pigeen?
That purebred is clearly a poodle cut above the rest, but like all the rest, it does not skip to the loo, My Darling, but lets it fly or flop where it wills, so, warning you with an Ekwilism: don't step in any glittering golden "oblong puddle." And, as exhorted by the late father of
Moon Unit,
Dweezil,
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and
Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen don't eat the yellow snow where the huskies go.
11 Aug 2008
Paul Blaskowicz
I would like to hear Fred Willard/Buck Laughlin's comments on this one in "Best in Show" - one of my top ten funniest films ever. The film where two sapphic contestants (Sherri Ann and Christy) get together at the end and publish American Bitch - a magazine that focuses on the issues of the lesbian pure-bred dog owner.
11 Aug 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
Against poodles, there's always the Luzhin Defense.
11 Aug 2008
reactionry
De Turd* Defenestration of Dog?
Or: Castling The King
Poodle Morphy? Paul Mastiff? Paul Corgi? Nope; don't get it either, unless it involves defenestration as in Cur von Barkyleben (ht Wiki). Which is quite different from the Third Defenestration of Prague, assuming that Jan Masaryk was forced out of a window, and the defense against an amphetamine-addled dog (like Lushkin, locked for a time in a bathroom) in Something About Mary**.
In any event, the Lushkin Defense/Defence*** must be, as some might say in Chess, and others have said with respect to an oldie about food, "Fit for a King" - Here, King! Here King! Also see what Nixon's gift, Checkers, might have said, had he been able to speak like Mister Ed (thanks again, PB for the info, given, I think, last year, on the show's human star), "King me!" Also see exultation by Borat, Top Dog of Kazakhstan: King of the Castle! King of the Castle!
Lushkin might have considered Exit, Sash Left, had he heard Ricky Ricardo bark, "Loooooshkin!**** You got some spaying to do!"
Another title for my first Bend Sinister/Huskies comment above came dog-paddingly to mind a few moments after posting while beginning some noddy blinkers:
A Good Night For Mushing
* Just trying to "carry forward" (or is it "bring forward"?) the Gothonic tendency to do away with dental fricatives.
*** Ah gots to buy me de electric fence fer dawgs.
**** No word of a lie; our family's Shits-Zhu is named "Lucy"
11 Aug 2008
reactionry
It might be a good night for nothing or mothing, but it's a super Day for Doris singing How much is that Doggy out the window?
Thanks, btw., to John MJ for providing the Ozymandias parody by Horace Smith. I regret still being unable to find the Limerick, published in an august journal about a "Doris" who had a six(?) inch clitoris and was "known to her intimates as 'Horace'."
11 Aug 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
"What?"
The Luzhin Defense, Zashchita Luzhina, is the original, Russian title of the novel by Nabokov, about a chess player named Luzhin ("After tomorrow he would be Luzhin"), that was englished as "The Defense."
My "poodle"is not the dog, not even the one that at the end of The Gift is heard by Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntev and Zina Mertz ("and a poodle's unclipped claws tapping over the flagstones of the night") but, rather, the phonetic spelling of a typical Russian pronunciation of the English word "puddle."
The word in Russian for "puddle" is the root of Luzhin -- Luzha.
End of story. And now the witticism has been drained of any conceivable wit.
But thank you for asking.
