He was a good dog

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
et...
Kipper the Hound passed away this evening. He collapsed
at the back door after his evening walk and I carried
him to his pillow in front of the fireplace where he
passed peacefully.

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

--
Ken Fortenberry


I am truely sorry for your loss. Dogs occupy a special place in our
lives . They touch us in a way no other creature can. I will have a good
thought for "Kipper".

Edmond Dantes

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.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:54:01 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Kipper the Hound passed away this evening. He collapsed
at the back door after his evening walk and I carried
him to his pillow in front of the fireplace where he
passed peacefully.

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


He looked like a good dog. My condolences, Ken.

g.c.

"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!

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
et...
Kipper the Hound passed away this evening.

my sincere regrets, forty.

yfitons
wayno

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...

jeff

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Kipper the Hound passed away this evening. He collapsed
at the back door after his evening walk and I carried
him to his pillow in front of the fireplace where he
passed peacefully.

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

I know how much that hurts, Ken. My condolences.

vince

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

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




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.


ah... the smell of bull**** in the morning.g

first, for a number of reasons, i consider wolfgang a friend. i don't
always agree with or understand my friends. i do think, like you, that
at times silence is the appropriate response...even from those blessed
with the ability of keen insight and cursed by a need to express one's
opinion of observed truths. (this is not a comment on the specifics of
wolf's post, but is meant in the larger context...so, yeah, ****, i
reckon it's a comment).

second, for a number of reasons, i don't consider ken a friend. but, for
whatever reason, i seem to have a different tolerance and empathy in my
response to his events.

it simply struck me that it is odd how wolfgang, and some others in the
past, perceive and respond to sad news from some sources or about some
things. i have honestly and genuinely felt sadness and sorrow for people
i despised. it's hard to reconcile logically those feelings, hence my
post in response to ken's sad news and wolfgang's harsh observation. i
guess it was my own therapeutic need being served...something one
generally does in more comfortable places and with more gentle critics.

jeff (and, yeah, i know there are times when the clinical, analytical,
critical should be expressed, even by a meek southerner, about death and
the dead and the living and... but we all have differing ideas about
where the line is drawn)

"jeff" wrote in message
...

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.

I suspect that any perceived geographic divide in such matters is illusory.
While it would be both disingenuous and futile for me to deny that I live in
a northern state, I remain, to the best of my knowledge, the only person in
this group who has publicly noted kennie's propensity to express contempt
for everybody AND his routine (and largely successful) efforts to temper the
consequences thereof by a reliance on the basic decency of his targets in
trading on the triumphs and tragedies of his family and pets for approbation
and sympathy. Disproportionate as many here seem to feel my influence may
be, I maintain that I (N=1) am nevertheless too small a sample to yield any
statistically significant results or conclusions.

we all vibrate in this fog in different ways.

Indeed. Some produce mellow tones that harmonize well, while others yield
only a screeching dissonance. And then there's the matter of disparate
individual tastes.

tolerance. empathy. i think they may be the most important of traits in a
too-crowded world.

I agree. And I, for one, am encouraged by the displays of such that we
often we see here. In the instant case, for example, it speaks well for
humanity that so many who have been so frequently, roundly and gratuitously
abused by the OP can still be swayed by tolerance and empathy. However, if
history and personal experience are teachers worth paying attention to, then
we all know that tolerance and empathy are of little use in making this
world a better place so long as their application is not reciprocal. A one
way street is a good place to be if it leads where you want to go.....and a
bad one if it leads away.

probably why i look for remote spots. i dunno...

As you know, I like such spots myself. But a too heavy reliance on them
(more and more problematic as time and progress march on and less and less
of them remain.....but that's another rant) is tantamount to an expression
of hopelessness. Besides, I have yet to find the means to survive
indefinitely in such a spot. For the time being, I have no choice but to
remain here in the trenches.....and as long as I'm here, well, crouching in
the muck on the bottom while all the interesting stuff whizzes by overhead
just isn't my style.

Wolfgang