# "Pet Goat" and other animals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 5, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611 "2004-10-05T05:17:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/41 "2004-10-05T23:51:20Z")

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(wakes up, looks around)

Ah, the usual gang of right-wing idiots and clueless Republicans are slobbering all over themselves defending him. Again.

(goes back to sleep)

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/42 "2004-10-06T00:28:23Z")

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> [@New Iskander](#):
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> Only one of [those Liberals](http://www.agerits.com/php/order.php3?bnr=23027).  
> [/arrogantly]

I had you figured for [This guy’s](http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_ballad_of_iskander) namesake:

> [@](#):
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> Sultan Iskander sat him down  
> On his golden throne, in his golden crown,  
> And shouted, “Wine and flute-girls three,  
> And the Captain, ho! of my ships at sea.”  
> …

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/43 "2004-10-06T08:00:54Z")

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> [@New Iskander](#):
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> Although I wish I picked “Daddy’s Roommate” (#2).

Who titled that book anyway—the author, the editor, or the publisher? Calling it “Daddy’s **Roommate** ” totally negates the message the book’s trying to send. He’s not Daddy’s roommate; he’s Daddy’s **boyfriend**. “Roommate” just sends us back to square one.

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**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/44 "2004-10-06T08:12:20Z")

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[The Very Hungry Caterpillar](http://home.hawaii.rr.com/snlcn/franken/rollingstone.html)

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**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/45 "2004-10-06T16:28:22Z")

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> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#):
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> :: raises hand tentatively ::
> 
> Um, I think that [**New Iskander** might be reacting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5328635) to [something I said](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5328665).
> 
> 😉

Yes. Let that be a leeson to you.

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-goat-and-other-animals/267611/46 "2004-10-06T19:04:06Z")

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> [@New Iskander](#):
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> Yes. Let that be a leeson to you.

[whiny small child]

Daddy, what’s a leeson?

[/wsc]

Well, yeh, I guess I did learn something: You’re so cute when you’re mad. 😛

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