On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:20:28 -0400, jeff
wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...

daytripper wrote:

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

...
He was a good dog and he'll be missed.

Man, I hate losing a good dog.
Sorry you're going through it, Ken...

Thanks for the thoughts Dave, and thanks to everyone
who expressed sympathy here in the newsgroup and over
the phone. This old house was mighty empty today.


Q. What do the following words have in common?:

Commodity
Wife
Friend
Daughter
Father
Mother
Aunt
Uncle
Acquaintance
Nephew
Niece
Brother
Sister
Dog
Tool

A. They all mean EXACTLY the same thing.

Wolfgang
and what keeps it all from being merely pathological.....what makes it all
delicious.....is that he's absolutely right. it works.....EVERY time!




i reckon there is a southern cultural or genetic influence that assures
one is neither clinical, analytical, nor critical about the death of
anyone...especially someone with the significant status of a dog. we all
vibrate in this fog in different ways. tolerance. empathy. i think they
may be the most important of traits in a too-crowded world. probably
why i look for remote spots. i dunno...

Bull****. The ****ed-up inappropriate response to which you respond is
exactly what it is. You know as well as I, and what both our
grandmothers knew and through their grace we learned - there are
unfortunate situations in which one can't sympathize and commiserate
with a friend...in those situations, a gentleperson keeps their cakehole
closed.

And yeah, I feel slightly, well, sad in having responded...and to Ken,
Kristine, and Kipper...my apologies for having further sullied this
thread,
R

jeff