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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2007, 04:26:54 am »
yeah, I know. I am not sure why my mom did that. But basically his hair gets hell of nizzasty when it is long.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2007, 02:57:57 pm »
Quote from: slink on February 27, 2007, 11:17:16 pm
Just made me think of Dogs in Elk. Again.

Dogs in Elk is awesome.  I know one of the chatters--not the person with the crazy dogs, but one of the kibbitzers.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2007, 03:11:11 pm »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on February 28, 2007, 02:57:57 pm
Dogs in Elk is awesome.  I know one of the chatters--not the person with the crazy dogs, but one of the kibbitzers.

Good lord, I never thought I could to two degrees from someone in Dogs in Elk. My mother will be most amused, it having become one of her very favourite intertube happenings.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2007, 03:17:37 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on February 28, 2007, 12:45:56 am
make sure you get that kid the REAL THING. Not any of this simplified crap where they took out some parts.

They've dumbed down Go Dog Go?  Is that even possible?
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2007, 03:34:37 am »
they took out all the complex sub-plots ("Do you Like my Hat?", namely.)
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2007, 05:43:22 am »
The entire hat subplot of Go Dog Go was my favorite! Especially the super party hat at the end.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2007, 06:10:02 am »
Go Dog Go is nothing without the hat subplot.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2007, 06:14:21 am »
I know.
I know.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2007, 05:10:22 am »
jaydub, just give her a shave. it's cruel to keep long-haired animals in such hot weather.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #24 on: August 11, 2007, 06:06:47 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 20, 2007, 03:34:37 am
they took out all the complex sub-plots ("Do you Like my Hat?", namely.)

Didn't they only do that for the board book edition?  In my experience, board book adaptations of regular books are almost always abridged.  You should see what they did to Are You My Mother? 

My son has both versions of both books.  AYMM is also bilingual. 

Eres tu mi mama? 
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #25 on: August 11, 2007, 06:39:08 pm »
my mom totally would have bought me the Bilingual version, and then never read me the spanish part. deep down, she wanted me to be ignorant of spanish and unable to talk to that whole side of my family... so I would never know her terrible secret.

(except that now she is trying to convince me that if I drop Arabic I should take Spanish. Which just makes me even more bitter about the not-being-bilingual thing.)
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #26 on: August 11, 2007, 08:04:13 pm »
Pearce only heard the Spanish version until we found out he had autism, and we abandoned Spanish altogether.  Now he hears a little of each, but we mostly ask my mother in law speak Spanish to him because we want him to absorb the sounds and cadences so he can roll his r's when he gets older.  We don't expect bilingualism, given that it's sort of wonderful that he's speaking at all.  And he's doing superbly with sign language (still learning new signs even though he can talk) so I think we'll teach that to all our kids as a second language instead.  Lots of Dr. Seuss books are also really good to sign along with, actually, because they use basic and simple vocabulary and the illustrations are on the minimalist side so it's obvious that [this gesture] means, for instance, BIRD. 

We are, however, trying to teach him to read already, even though he's not yet three.  It would never have occurred to me to try this young, even though I read exceptionally early, except that he learned four words through osmosis or something so apparently written language comes much easier to him than spoken words.  My nephew is the same way; in fact, he was three and a half before he spoke at all and we are pretty sure he could read before then. 
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2007, 06:17:02 pm »
Quote from: joeyramoney1 on August 11, 2007, 05:10:22 am
jaydub, just give her a shave. it's cruel to keep long-haired animals in such hot weather.

Watch out for the razor stubble at the bikini line.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2007, 11:02:43 pm »
Nabu: Ew

joey & others:  The average summertime temperature where I live is in the '70s or low '80s, with humidity around 40%.  Also, Eskies have sun-sensitive skin, so if I shaved her, I'd have to put sunscreen on her too.  That would be disgusting, with her propensity to roll in leaves and dirt.  American Eskimo dogs are way less trouble than you'd think, given their fluffiness.  Mud pretty much dries and falls off, random stains don't take, and she neither sheds much (other than the biannual "blowing" of the undercoat) nor requires much brushing.  They're even shown unclipped, with the coat come-as-you-are.
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Re: Half the Dog She Used to Be
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2007, 11:33:00 pm »
Quote from: jaydub on August 26, 2007, 11:02:43 pm
Nabu: Ew

I'm glad I restrained myself, then.
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