Man, yesterday was a rough day to be a live bulldog mascot. Try these headers on for size:
- Butler’s Bulldog mascot, Blue III, pukes on court at Big East Tournament.
- Fresno State’s bulldog mascot died from a bee sting.
Anybody check on how Uga’s spring break is going? Just sayin’.
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Oh Gawd! Here come the PETA Peckers.
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Dog. It’s What’s for Dinner!
“Serving up a dish of man’s best friend is a cultural taboo in the U.S. that would bring PETA protestors to your doorstep faster than you say bow wow.” Or wow bow.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/09/05/countries-that-eat-dogs-and-cats/
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Have a friend who was a fellow officer in the service, fraternity brother and now a lawyer in Ca who hosted a Chinese exchange student in his home in Long Beach along with his wife and their dog Muff. When the student departed around Jan 1 in 1971, he gave them a special going away present of high esteem in his culture, that of an entire roast dog, that he had obviously gotten in LA’s Chinatown. They told me that they thanked him roundly for the gift (wrapped in a very greasy wax paper) and, upon his exit, hurriedly discarded it before Muff could inquire. They said that it never occurred to them that he may have been casting a covetous eye at their little walking snack throughout his stay.
When I entertained a Chinese family at our home in Canada (he was a workmate and we remain in touch and have visited with his family several times after they moved to SF), upon entering our home for Thanksgiving and a day of watching good American Football on TV, I admonished him to quit licking his chops when I introduced him to Charley, our family pet dog, and told him that he wasn’t on the menu. Yan Li still laughs and always asked how Charley was doing (until Charley’s death some years ago) whenever he brings up memories while on the phone. A thoroughly interesting scientist, he was a member of The Red Guard in his teens in China. He still has Mao’s Little Red Book from those days and equates his experience to that of Eagle Scouts in America (fiercely loyal to his country and countrymen). He gifted his painting from memory of the landscape surrounding his family home in Hunan Province that remains hanging in my bedroom. We laugh that at one time we were prepared to kill each other in combat to defend our homelands.
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So Cojones, you saw action in the Boxer Rebellion? Wow! 😉
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Yeah. The Red Commie Menace was always on the plate, no matter the police action , cold/hot war, lest we forget, the “New China” of Chiang’s Formosa or just general antipathy. They were always at the top of our list. Mao was a lover, not a Boxer, and was screwing the peasants early. 🙂
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Russ has got his shades on checking the bitches at the beach
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I see what you did there.
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Good stuff. But I hope he’s in Nashville for tonight. We gots to stop this 3 in a row nonsense from sakerlina and the bball tourney is a great opportunity.
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Good news: There’s a vimeo going around showing Russ working on his 40 time. Bad news: It’s about 6 hours.
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OMG! I just about spit coffee all over my monitor!! But the news is not totally bad, his time is down from last year!
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My favorite Uga story and memory involves what happened at the end of Uga I’s halftime memorial and the introduction of Uga II. That little dog could move!
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Butler threw up on the court too.
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The opening line in that story was truly special.
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Yeah. That’s Envy and Jealousy worthy.
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Whatever Russ was doing, I’m sure it involved struggling to keep his eyes open and breathe. The Uga line is a disaster.
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The problem, unfortunately, is with the breed. The poor English bulldog isn’t exactly built for comfort or long-term survival.
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That is partially true. You’re right that English bulldogs aren’t the healthiest dogs around but the problem is also with the Seilers and the way they’ve bred these dogs. The University needs to open things up and look elsewhere for a mascot. There are plenty of English bulldogs out there that are much healthier than what the Seilers have been rolling out for the last 15 years.
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I beg your pardon… I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t read your post. Spot on.
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You crafty punner.
Russ is the exception with his long life. His litter mate died 3 yrs ago. Russ may become the winningest mascot this year (I think). All of us have probably doomed the poor dog with our comments.
I hope we continue to see his spots on the turf (and his fireplug) for many years.
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Russ is brown and white and that’s cool but why can’t Sonny breed one that’s a whiter shade of pale?
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I see what you did there!
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Let me help…
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The problem, unfortunately, is with the breed.
FIFY
The problem, unfortunately, is with the breeders.
http://www.bulldoghealth.com/bulldog-history.1.html
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Bought a bulldog yard dog statue at Home Depot last weekend. Gonna let the grandkids paint him this week
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If your a Classic City Dawg… you got one of these! I got two! We use to paint the kids names on the back and their numbers. lol.
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Nice! Looks like one of Jack’s portraits. The one I have is generic and sitting. After painting, gonna put a logging chain on him hitched to a tree in the front yard. The forever sentinel.
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Fresno State’s bulldog was killed by a bee sting?
YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE, TECH!
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I jeard Russ got kicked out of Club LaVela for nuzzling some waitress’s butt, and he tested positive for weed when he got back to Athens. Zach Mettenberger called him with Les Miles phone number.
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heard. Sheesh. WordPress really needs an edit function. 😉
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That still wouldn’t help me. Duh. 🙂
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