i wonder if we could have used this tactic as leverage against chief

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/30/britain.man.dog.ap/index.html

"Mmm, coffee. I really need this caffeine coursing through my veins." – Catherine
"It's not fair! Why can't I ever have caffeine coursing through my veins?" – Robert

Robert hangs out with too many college students

"Mommy, you should get a boyfriend. That would be really nice for you. Except not if he was, like, 25. That would be awkward." -- Robert

"Is every Japanese person on acid, or what?" -- BdB, on Mario Party

"Hod? What is a hod? Use that in a sentence." -- Laura Bacon, playing Boggle
"'Dude, where's my hod?'" -- me

In which Chief sends me home with sherry hour leftovers

"Chief! I have some dignity." -- me
"You are in the wrong house for dignity." -- Chief

"Robert, can you keep a secret?" -- Catherine
"No." -- Robert

we don't joke about that around here...

hanging out w/the ladies of leverett...

"he wasn't a man-mountain, if you know what i mean." --anne

"they say to me, 'you're still around! kinda like minh!' i know they're joking, but joking about minh is like joking about racism or AIDS. and i actually joke about AIDS."--molly

Dog training digest: in which the interested public means well, but...

Jean: Why you washing the pillow?
Me: The dog piddled on it.
Jean: Hm. (gives me new pillow, to his credit)
-- (5 minutes later) --
Jean: Why you washing the comforter?
Me: The dog piddled on it.
Jean: Hm.
-- (5 minutes later) --
Jean: Why you throw that rug away? The dog, he wet on the rug?
Me: Yeah...
Jean: You tell the dog he no can wet inside. You need to train the dog. Dog, he must wet outside. That is what you tell him. If he wet inside, you tell him bad dog, no wet inside, must wet outside. It is not good, that the dog wet inside.
Me: We're trying...
Jean: You tell dog etc. etc. etc.
-- (fade to black) --

This reminds me of one of those Hare today articles

Man bites panda after zoo attack

A drunken Chinese tourist says he bit a panda who attacked him after he jumped into a zoo enclosure to "hug" the bear.
Zhang Xinyan, 35, had drunk four draught beers before deciding to enter the Beijing Zoo pen belonging to six-year-old male panda Gu Gu.

The startled Gu Gu bit both legs of his intruder, who responded by biting "the panda on its back", Mr Zhang was quoted by state media as saying.

Mr Zhang said he had not realised pandas could be violent.

He told the Beijing Morning Post that he had come to the Chinese capital "only to see the pandas".

"The seven-hour train ride was exhausting, and I drank bottles of beer when I arrived then had a nap," he added.

Punishment

The newspaper said Mr Zhang had a "sudden urge" to touch Gu Gu with his hand, so he jumped over the waist-high railing into the enclosure.


No one ever said they would bite people. I just wanted to touch it
Zhang Xinyan

"When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it," the newspaper added.

Mr Zhang was bitten first on his right leg, and then on his left.

Newspaper photographs showed him lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages over his legs.

"I bit the panda on its back but its fur was too thick," Mr Zhang recalled.

He went on: "No one ever said they would bite people. I just wanted to touch it."

Zoo spokeswoman Ye Mingxia said the panda was unharmed and they were not considering punishing Mr Zhang yet.

"He's suffered quite a bit of a shock," she told the Associated Press by telephone.




Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/5364058.stm

Published: 2006/09/20 13:35:53 GMT

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