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"I Fought the Law" by Strummer

License those Somerville Dogs

In the spirit of Lotte's diary entry for November 23rd 2005...


Licence your Somerville dog! Follow the yellow brick road
Licence your Somerville dog! Follow the yellow brick road

Licence your Follow the
Licence your Follow the
Licence your Follow the
Licence your Follow the
Licence your Somerville dog! Follow the yellow brick road

If ever a Somerville dog there was, If ever a wonderful wizard there was
I'd license the dog, I'd licence it 'cause The Wizard of Oz was one because
Because Because
Because Because
Because Because
Because Because
Because Because
Because of the Somerville dog it was! Because of the wonderful things he does

(which is to say just because)

We all license our dogs! We're off to see the Wizard
We license our Somerville dogs! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Give 'em a hand

People are great. Mostly because they have hands. Hands are the greatest thing since sliced cheese. I wouldn't be surprised if hands somehow sliced the cheese in the first place.

I've figured out how to get people to do all kinds of things with their hands. One of the great things that people do with hands is open doors. Going out doors is great! Perhaps only surpassed by going in doors! If it weren't for doors, where would we be?

What I don't get about people is that they say things like, "Are you ready to go outside." They usually say this when they're not ready to go outside. It looks like they're ready to go outside: for example, they've got their socks on. But then they have to walk around the house in their socks to find their shoes (they can never seem to remember where they left their shoes). Then, they remember that they need their keys, except that they forget where their keys are.

At this point it's usually a good idea to make yourself comfortable. I don't like to get too comforatble, though. For example, my comfy chair is too far away from the back door, and I might not make it out when they do finally go outside. I like to sit in the middle of the hallway. That gives me a line of sight to both possible doors, the back door and the front door.

Once they find their keys, it's usually a good sign that they're ready to go outside. I like to hold my ground in the hallway until they're out the door and they give the command, "Come." This isn't foolproof, though. A lot of times we get outside only to have to go back in to get something else they forgot: my leash, the checkbook--it's really quite amazing the number of things that people have to take with them when they go outside. You'd think they'd come up with a system for keeping everything at hand.

Yeah, hands are great. For people. If dogs had hands, we'd probably start forgetting where we put things we need to go outside, too.