# Sen. Edward Kennedy and his Portugese Water Dog named Splash have written a book **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173 "2006-01-09T16:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/1 "2006-01-09T16:57:31Z")
[Cite](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BOOKS_TED_KENNEDY?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) Portugese _Water_ dog named **Splash**? What was the Senator [del]drinking[/del] thinking? Man, the jokes just write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/2 "2006-01-09T20:41:41Z")
[Sen. Ted Kennedy to publish children’s book](http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-01-09-kennedy-children_x.htm) > [@](#): > > Meet the latest children’s author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C. You just can’t make this stuff up, folks. Whoever told him that a book about a Water Dog named Splash would be a good idea should be fired on the spot. They should have just named the dog Mary Jo and been done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/3 "2006-01-09T20:55:30Z")
> **[Sen. Edward Kennedy and his Portugese Water Dog named Splash have written a book](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353282)** > > Cite Portugese Water dog named Splash? What was the Senator \[del\]drinking\[/del\] thinking? Man, the jokes just write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/4 "2006-01-09T20:58:26Z")
Well, I’ll be damned. I didn’t even see it. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/5 "2006-01-09T21:14:11Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Well, I’ll be damned. I didn’t even see it. Oh, well. I merged the two threads. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/6 "2006-01-09T21:41:32Z")
I wonder if Splash will mention July 18, 1969. I mean, that was only 250 some-odd years ago. In dog years. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/7 "2006-01-09T22:15:23Z")
One thing we are in agreement on: The jokes just write themselves ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/8 "2006-01-09T22:22:56Z")
I’m guessing nobody in the book is going to go for a swim. And yeah, the jokes do write themselves. Portuguese Water Dogs, by the way, are they’re hypoallergenic. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/9 "2006-01-09T23:14:08Z")
Sen. Kerry and his Vietnamese potbelly pig; Swifty. Sen. Durban and his Persian cat; Adolph. Sen. Lott and his bloodhound; Duke. Sen. Dole and her Italian greyhound; Viagra. Se. Clinton and her Burmese Mountain Dogs; Peter & Paul Sen. McCain and his Maverick pony; Keating. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/10 "2006-01-10T05:12:09Z")
“Ted Kennedy and His Portugese Water Dog?” Sounds like a vaudeville act. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/11 "2006-01-10T07:52:45Z")
Well, he did let the last dog he had drown… {Am I going to hell for that?} ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/12 "2006-01-12T15:23:23Z")
[Bailey and Guinness](http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bg31kr.jpg) are not amused. FWIW, it’s common to give Porties nautical call names. “Splash” is like the John Smith of Portie names. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/13 "2006-01-12T16:46:25Z")
I wonder if the book has an ending like _Where the Red Fern Grows_. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/14 "2006-01-12T17:04:01Z")
Yeah, someone mentioned this in the office the other day and my first reaction was to make a bad joke. And I have nothing against Senator Kennedy. It’s just a terrible choice of dog name under the circumstances! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-edward-kennedy-and-his-portugese-water-dog-named-splash-have-written-a-book/339173/15 "2006-01-12T18:21:58Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > Yeah, someone mentioned this in the office the other day and my first reaction was to make a bad joke. And I have nothing against Senator Kennedy. It’s just a terrible choice of dog name under the circumstances! Also a terrible choice of dog _breed_ under the circumstances.