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Post by Glance A'Lot on Aug 27, 2009 22:26:22 GMT
Hey girl, give Abby a caress from me - I just learned that the Golden Retriever is currently the most popular dog race in Germany (beating the German Shepard!).
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 28, 2009 7:16:59 GMT
Hey girl, give Abby a caress from me - I just learned that the Golden Retriever is currently the most popular dog race in Germany (beating the German Shepard!). Wow! That's just like saying that "French Fries aren't the most consumed starch in France." (JK, I know "French Fries" aren't quite so French, and what they have in McDonald's are "Freedom Fries") ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Aug 28, 2009 7:36:22 GMT
Well the French have a very simple, prosaic name for them - fried potatoes.
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 28, 2009 7:47:41 GMT
Well the French have a very simple, prosaic name for them - fried potatoes. Yeah, exactly. ;D
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 28, 2009 8:02:44 GMT
Yeah. 'French' is the name of the man who invented that way of doing them, apparently. Nothing to do with France the country at all.
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 28, 2009 8:08:22 GMT
Yeah. 'French' is the name of the man who invented that way of doing them, apparently. Nothing to do with France the country at all. Is it? Well, it may have a BIT to do with "French" as in the language, here's what Wikipedia has to say about it
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Post by Flix on Aug 28, 2009 8:15:05 GMT
I'd never heard anything to that effect, EK. In fact I can't find anything that corroborates that, either. Straight Dope
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 28, 2009 8:40:43 GMT
Huh. Weird. Can't find the article I got that from now, but it would appear to a load of bull...
The origin of French Fries appears to be in some dispute, but the inventor being called French is not even a proposed theory.
Clearly I've been reading the wrong newspapers.
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Post by LaFille on Aug 28, 2009 15:19:01 GMT
Hey girl, give Abby a caress from me - I just learned that the Golden Retriever is currently the most popular dog race in Germany (beating the German Shepard!). Abbie is spoiled with carresses; but I'll pass it on. ;D The popularity of golden retrievers isn't surprising... They're generally very good-tempered, not overly excited, easy to train and beautiful in a friendly way. German shepards look to be awesome obedience dogs, but not suitable to any owner for their strong guardian instincts and strong will. At the place where I got her, almost all dog trainers were proud owners of German shepards and competing with them in schutzhund... I was interested in trying that with Abbie too, but after laughing a little at me they confirmed that she was seriously lacking on the protection-instinct side. ;D
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 29, 2009 2:14:51 GMT
Hey girl, give Abby a caress from me - I just learned that the Golden Retriever is currently the most popular dog race in Germany (beating the German Shepard!). Abbie is spoiled with carresses; but I'll pass it on. ;D The popularity of golden retrievers isn't surprising... They're generally very good-tempered, not overly excited, easy to train and beautiful in a friendly way. German shepards look to be awesome obedience dogs, but not suitable to any owner for their strong guardian instincts and strong will. At the place where I got her, almost all dog trainers were proud owners of German shepards and competing with them in schutzhund... I was interested in trying that with Abbie too, but after laughing a little at me they confirmed that she was seriously lacking on the protection-instinct side. ;D Believe it or not, in my housing complex a majority of dogs are German Shepherds! It's such a sight; when you're riding your scooter, and suddenly this huge creature bigger than your scooter comes leaping and bounding right past you! @ EK: You can't believe everything you read... Why, Wikipedia is extremely untrustworthy in many issues, quite a few of the articles are very one-sided and are very capable of being sabotaged (I once found some on the page of John Madden, something ridiculous about his weight. Was really funny though, said something about him weighing 2,400 lbs., him and his butt being induced into the hall of fame simultaneously, weighing 30 lbs. at birth... The way it was written was funny, but I think it's pretty mean).
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 29, 2009 2:29:50 GMT
I'm normally pretty good at sifting the good from the bad, Dragon, but not always, unfortunately. I read a ton of stuff and not all of it from multiple sources (Inevitably) so the odd wrong piece of information is bound to slip through. Annoyingly! ;D
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 29, 2009 2:31:19 GMT
I'm normally pretty good at sifting the good from the bad, Dragon, but not always, unfortunately. I read a ton of stuff and not all of it from multiple sources (Inevitably) so the odd wrong piece of information is bound to slip through. Annoyingly! ;D Yes, I feel the same way. It happens to all of us.
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Post by LaFille on Aug 30, 2009 4:44:18 GMT
Believe it or not, in my housing complex a majority of dogs are German Shepherds! It's such a sight; when you're riding your scooter, and suddenly this huge creature bigger than your scooter comes leaping and bounding right past you! @ EK: You can't believe everything you read... Why, Wikipedia is extremely untrustworthy in many issues, quite a few of the articles are very one-sided and are very capable of being sabotaged (I once found some on the page of John Madden, something ridiculous about his weight. Was really funny though, said something about him weighing 2,400 lbs., him and his butt being induced into the hall of fame simultaneously, weighing 30 lbs. at birth... The way it was written was funny, but I think it's pretty mean). I think a lot of the fear inspired by German shepards (like that of dogue-type breeds) is culture/emotion-based... The stories of attack that make the news, the fact that they're used a lot as protection dogs, the fact that they're big and look somewhat like wolves, etc. It's undeniable that such dogs need strong and balanced owners, but so do other breeds like chow-chows, huskies & company that people tend to be less wary of. And a dog is a dog, whatever the breed; any of them could eventually turn into a serial killer if the environment pushed it to... ...But yeah, an excited German shepard is a little more imposing than an excited shi-tsu. ;D What you came across on wikipedia is pure [virtual] vandalism, though. It's very sad that things like that spoil things for the majority, as Wikipedia generally isn't less trustworthy than your average news/mag article when it's entries are made according to their standards, and in those cases you always have references to defer to, conversely to news/mag articles. They have an impressive and dedicated user base and you also always have access to the (very, almost too transparent) history of the edition of each article by clicking on the "history" tab at the top of the pages... That of John Madden was apparently promptly cleaned, by the way. ;D
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Post by twoheadedragon on Aug 30, 2009 10:45:00 GMT
Believe it or not, in my housing complex a majority of dogs are German Shepherds! It's such a sight; when you're riding your scooter, and suddenly this huge creature bigger than your scooter comes leaping and bounding right past you! @ EK: You can't believe everything you read... Why, Wikipedia is extremely untrustworthy in many issues, quite a few of the articles are very one-sided and are very capable of being sabotaged (I once found some on the page of John Madden, something ridiculous about his weight. Was really funny though, said something about him weighing 2,400 lbs., him and his butt being induced into the hall of fame simultaneously, weighing 30 lbs. at birth... The way it was written was funny, but I think it's pretty mean). I think a lot of the fear inspired by German shepards (like that of dogue-type breeds) is culture/emotion-based... The stories of attack that make the news, the fact that they're used a lot as protection dogs, the fact that they're big and look somewhat like wolves, etc. It's undeniable that such dogs need strong and balanced owners, but so do other breeds like chow-chows, huskies & company that people tend to be less wary of. And a dog is a dog, whatever the breed; any of them could eventually turn into a serial killer if the environment pushed it to... ...But yeah, an excited German shepard is a little more imposing than an excited shi-tsu. ;D What you came across on wikipedia is pure [virtual] vandalism, though. It's very sad that things like that spoil things for the majority, as Wikipedia generally isn't less trustworthy than your average news/mag article when it's entries are made according to their standards, and in those cases you always have references to defer to, conversely to news/mag articles. They have an impressive and dedicated user base and you also always have access to the (very, almost too transparent) history of the edition of each article by clicking on the "history" tab at the top of the pages... That of John Madden was apparently promptly cleaned, by the way. ;D Yes, I agree. ;D Yeah, the John Madden article was just one of many cases of sabotage (I'm sure), you REALLY can't trust 100% of what you read...
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Post by Hildor on Aug 31, 2009 12:03:01 GMT
Soooooo I did my final exam today...FREEDOM!
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 31, 2009 12:25:14 GMT
Congrats, Hildor! Hope you did well
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Post by LaFille on Aug 31, 2009 14:44:25 GMT
THD, that is true for pretty much anything you can read. Hildor, you aced it?
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Post by Alrik on Aug 31, 2009 18:36:13 GMT
... Bought myself finally a ticket for the Spamalot Musical. Next Thursday.
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Aug 31, 2009 23:14:00 GMT
Hooray for no more school! ;D
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Post by twoheadedragon on Sept 1, 2009 4:24:23 GMT
Congrats Hildor! Look forward too seeing more of your posts! I was SUPPOSED to pass mine in the middle of August, but the test didn't arrive yet. It has to travel by airmail all the way from the U.S to here, so I'm not surprised.
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