# Brody the Obstreperous Puppy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114 "2005-06-06T12:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/141 "2005-06-10T16:06:04Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > Can we get a picture of the _chesticle_ thingys. Here I am, a boy that likes girls (girly-girl and otherwise), and there are no pictures. Everytime someone mentions how great they look, they never post a link. So I guess that’s all I’m gonna say on the subject. > > Chesticles; it started to be in there sommers, but then I got bored. You got bored talking about chesticles? Must be a leg man. I am a girly-girl; I know this because I’ve been told many times by all sorts of different and unrelated people at unrelated times. I don’t like bugs and I don’t like fishing, you couldn’t _pay_ me to bait the hook, and I don’t like getting dirty. I do wear make-up and fuss with my hair and love shopping and shoes. None of which means I don’t know my way around a router or drill press or under the hood of a car. So there! 😛 It’s been hot here in PA/NJ as well. I’m with **Swampy** on the no cooking thing, but have to figure out how to do that and not resort to fast food when I’m tired and hot and it’s late. I’d probably eat more cereal if I didn’t have to feed my BIL. Well, apparently my little lapse into negativity yesterday didn’t hurt me; they offered me the assignment. A tiny bit more money and a long term assignment. Steady paychecks are a good thing. My sister and BIL want to go to the aquarium in Camden this weekend, but I don’t know if I want to go with them. I’d like to go, just some other time. And, just to be on topic for once: someone got poo all over one of the toilets in the Ladies’ Room here at work. They obviously wiped at it, but didn’t clean it all up. Yuck!! There are paper towels, soap and water right there, why wouldn’t you clean up if you made a mess? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/142 "2005-06-10T16:18:38Z")
If y’all haven’t checked out [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320394) yet ya need to! It’s hilarious! **AmazonFloozyGoddess** does some amazing doodles. Get yer name anagramed and she’ll doodle it up for ya. **Hal Briston** is hosting some space for the doodles so they’re all there for everybody to see. This is destined to be a doper classic I tells ya! Be sure to check out A Swamp Reb. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/143 "2005-06-10T16:44:16Z")
I’m not sure how girly I am. I wear lots of tight and low-cut, but pink is right out. I almost never wear makeup. I rarely squeal. I hate bugs and shoe-shopping. I love small fuzzy animals. I don’t want a pony. I like sharp pointy things. Hmm. My only poo story is a continuing one- Aerin quite often gets very excited when he’s in the litterbox, and dashes out. We find fun trails. Stupid cat. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/144 "2005-06-10T16:45:29Z")
"She’. Missed the ‘s’. Don’t want to give my poor kitty a complex. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/145 "2005-06-10T16:53:54Z")
Hoo-kay…doctor appointment has been made. I will see him on the 15th. Obviously, I’m not in any great danger or anything like that. It would be nice though, if my legs and feet would quit turning bright red and the swelling would go down. No woman likes kankles… I guess my VTC is actually scheduled for 11:30 through 1300 hours. Why, oh why, do they ALWAYS schedules these things during my lunch time? ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/146 "2005-06-10T16:54:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The same thing happens if you drink homebrew…the little yeasties go nuts in your bowels and you get very productive gas-wise. 😃 And I always thought that men were just extra-active in that department to begin with. Let’s have a home brew party! In Yucaipa! It’s been so windy recently, maybe the scent would blow on down to San Bernardino. ---
**Author:** ![Catsmeow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Catsmeow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catsmeow)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/147 "2005-06-10T17:02:51Z")
Thank you all for the greetings! Oh, and the chandelier? Just send it to **DogMom**. She’ll know what to do with it! **Swampbear** extra big hugs to you for the funeral thing. I’m sorry. ☹ CUTE bunnies! I love bunnies! I have felinefurbabies so I can’t have any Leporidaefurbabies unless they’re outside and outside is not happy right now. (muggy icky and sticky) But I LOVE bunny pictures! And kitty pictures. And puppy pics. I say, in honor of my first time posting **Rue** should post puppy pics. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/148 "2005-06-10T17:08:28Z")
It is amazing how a fairly decent day can go right to hell with just a few words. Today is the last day before summer break and I’m finally getting this huge mess battened down for summer. My biggest concern was money and whether I should have taken a summer school job just in case. Then one of our union reps walked in and said he’d gotten a strange message about a bunch of us teachers having an appointment at 1 pm in personnel. He doesn’t know what it’s about and so of course my heart stopped and then took a dive into my stomach. It’s never good when they call and on the last day of the school year seems even more ominous. Bad news is no fun, but not knowing is just about killing me. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/149 "2005-06-10T17:22:48Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > It is amazing how a fairly decent day can go right to hell with just a few words. Today is the last day before summer break and I’m finally getting this huge mess battened down for summer. My biggest concern was money and whether I should have taken a summer school job just in case. > > Then one of our union reps walked in and said he’d gotten a strange message about a bunch of us teachers having an appointment at 1 pm in personnel. He doesn’t know what it’s about and so of course my heart stopped and then took a dive into my stomach. It’s never good when they call and on the last day of the school year seems even more ominous. > > Bad news is no fun, but not knowing is just about killing me. Oooh, I hate when they do things like that. I hope things turn out well, although you think they sound ominous. My thoughts are with you. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/150 "2005-06-10T17:30:02Z")
**Catsmeow,** please forgive me for not saying “welcome” earlier. So, WELCOME! As has been mentioned you will need to send chocolate offerings to **FCM**. This is your initiation fee. While you’re at it, you could send me some too. 😉😃 I’m not trying to horn in on **FCM’s** domain, I just happen to love dark, good quality chocolate and didn’t get to stake my claim to this because I only arrived here in 2003. **FCM’s** true doman is that “she’s nice, dammit!” and she’ll be first to tell you that. 'Course we all think she’s nice too. Well, work calls to me again… ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/151 "2005-06-10T17:49:19Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > Oooh, I hate when they do things like that. I hope things turn out well, although you think they sound ominous. My thoughts are with you. Thanks, \*\*Taters \*\* it seems to have worked! I still have a job, I’m not being sued or sent to jail, but I will be even more poor this summer than I thought. They want us to take some classes for that horrible, stupid, ugly, bad and nasty No Child Left Behind. Even if I take the challenge test, it ain’t cheap, but I still have employment and my trip to the poor house has been delayed (knock on wood)! Now I can get back to enjoying my MMP. All is right with the world. Well, if \*\*Rue \*\* will post puppy pics, that is. You cutie pies held me for a while, but now PUPPY! ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/152 "2005-06-10T17:56:06Z")
**Ashes[sup]2[/sup],** I’m glad the news wasn’t too bad! You have my sympathy on the NCLB stuff–I don’t think it sounds very good, but I’m not an expert, so what do I know? **Taters,** good luck with the doctor! Am I the only one who doesn’t know what a “kankle” is? Doesn’t sound good, anyway. **catsmeow,** thanks! I think my bunnies are the cutest. I need to take some pictures of them doing really cute things, like begging for treats. You could have cats and rabbits if you wanted to–it’s been done. If you’re interested, there’s a good book called “The Peaceable Kingdom”–I haven’t read it, because I just have rabbits. For now. **wintermute,** congrats on the good job news! ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/153 "2005-06-10T17:56:14Z")
Poo-nugget - Heehee! Chesticles - \. I have large ones as well dunno why I am laughing! My friday has gone to doggy-doo-doo as well **Ashes** so I am thinking about ya! ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/154 "2005-06-10T18:05:47Z")
> [@Catsmeow](#): > > Oh, and the chandelier? Just send it to **DogMom**. She’ll know what to do with it! Since I can’t feed it to the dog, and it seems to be all shiny and sparkly but doesn’t actually have any use, I gotta say that we’ll be raising hte tone of the offerings to Goodwill this week… I have fandeliers at my house, thanks, don’t need a chandelier. Anything breakable and useless pretty much doesn’t make it past a day at our house. Maybe I can disassemble it and give our bat boxes some windows or something. Ooo, I know! I can donate it to our local High School and then try to talk them into doing _Phantom of the Opera_ for their Spring Musical next year! Yeah, that’s what I’ll do with it. > [@Catsmeow](#): > > I say, in honor of my first time posting **Rue** should post puppy pics. Pssst, **Cats** , I think **swampy** was right and it’s just an Imaginary Puppy that **Rue** has, so he can’t post pics. I’m sure he’ll pop back in to say that Imaginary Puppy ate the camera or something, so even though he _tried_ to take pics and post them, he just _can’t_. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/155 "2005-06-10T18:11:02Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > [ > **Taters,** good luck with the doctor! Am I the only one who doesn’t know what a “kankle” is? Doesn’t sound good, anyway. I’m not **Taters** , but I _think_ a “kankle” is an ankle that’s gotten so big it’s as big as your knee, or something. I could be wrong of course. Not like _that_ hasn’t happened before. Your bunnies are _adorable_. CurrentDog would like them, I’m sure, because he _loves_ to have bunnies play “Run So I Can Chase You.” He just gets really really confused when they stop running. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/156 "2005-06-10T18:12:35Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Bad news is no fun, but not knowing is just about killing me. I know exactly how you feel. I get so tense in situations like this. My hands go numb and I feel like I’m going to throw up. I hope you have an answer by now, and it’s not such bad news. Speaking of chocolate, my favorite boss gave me some lovely truffles from Trader Joe’s a couple of weeks ago. I stuck them in a drawer at work so I could have them for that 3:00pm “Must Have Chocolate!” break and didn’t think too much about it. Well, they must turn off the air conditioning over the weekend, and it was damn hot last weekend. Since these truffles weren’t enrobed with a chocolate shell, but just rolled in cocoa, I came in Monday morning to find they had melted. It kind of looks like a cowpie. Still tastes good, though. Hey, chocolate and poo in one paragraph! Am I good or what? Welcome to the MMP, **Catsmeow**. Do NOT take the chandeli… Oh. Too late. Sorry. Stick around anyway, there are rumors of pending puppy pictures. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/157 "2005-06-10T18:22:58Z")
> [@Wintermute](#): > > Hey, chocolate and poo in one paragraph! Am I good or what?. Ewwww!!! That’s just bad. I want to eat my melted chocolate without thinking it looks like…[something else.](http://www.southernseason.com/prod.asp?id=4850&cid=1&so=) ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/158 "2005-06-10T18:28:24Z")
Ya know what I think? I think **rue** was the inspiration for that urban legend where the people go to Mexico and get sold this cute little puppy what turns out to be a rat and he’s all embarrassed about it…so that’s why no pics. I’m just sayin’ is all… **ashes** , that was a crappy thing for them to do on the last day of school. That’s like sayin’ you only get to graduate if you go to summer school. :mad: **taters** , is there any pain associated with the swelling? Just curious cause Mr. Anachi’s ankle got all swole and red when he had his gout attack but it hurt like bejebus, too. Congrats to **dogmom** for the most inspirational idea for **fcm’s** chandelier so far. Plus I love her vocabulary…fandiliers \ Mmmmmmmm, truffles, mmmmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/159 "2005-06-10T19:01:32Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > Congrats to **dogmom** for the most inspirational idea for **fcm’s** chandelier so far. Plus I love her vocabulary…fandiliers \ > . We just got the DVD, and ever since I saw it I’ve had the music going through my head. I’d **love** it if the local HS would do that for their Spring Musical Thingy. And I’d bet that **FCM** wouldn’t mind one bit if the chandelier got all smashed up in the process… I’d love to take credit for “fandelier”, but, alas, I cannot. A co-worker of mine told me that one - evidently his wife invented the word. I’m just doing my best to get it so widely-used that it makes it into the dictionary. \ It makes sense, though, doesn’t it? At least, it makes perfect sense to me: a chandelier is a hang-from-the-ceiling light fixture. Fandelier is a hang-from-the-ceiling fan-and-light (or just fan, I suppose) fixture. It seems perfectly logical to ME. \ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114/160 "2005-06-10T19:02:03Z")
I’ve been known to use the phrase _chestal protrusions_, but I now like chesticles better. I’ll have to share that one at the family celebration of my niece’s graduation this weekend. We shan’t be sailing tomorrow, alas. The heat exchanger that my sweetie rebuilt done up and died, and we’ve now got water in the engine oil. So we’ve got to get a new heat exchanger, and do at least 3 oil and filter changes to get the cooling system purged. And the part won’t get here for at least a week, so no sailing. The kid’s bf is just gonna lose out. And I’m home alone for dinner. A certain spousal unit took the day off and took the kids to Baltimore. Last I heard, they were going to the Aquarium. With weekend traffic and all, they won’t get here in time for dinner - as least I don’t think they will. We shall see. Thanks to all for the nice words about my crafty stuff. I promise the bowl is dark green, mostly. Last night, I got a suggestion to float candles in it. Dunno - we shall see… And that’s pretty much all I have for now. All youse folks in Arlene’s path or close enough to feel it - be safe! Batten down and all that! Oh yeah, and the chocolate love offerings have been mighty sparse of late. I’m feeling unloved. Note the trembling chin and the moist eyes. So sad. So pathetic. _\_ I didn’t think it would work… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brody-the-obstreperous-puppy/307114.md?page=9)