# Toot Your Own Horn Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400 "2009-10-19T22:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400/61 "2009-10-26T17:32:30Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Not every duck wears dresses here in OZ. These are special trained \*performing \*ducks (btw my rabbit also wears outfits on occasion, ie he has his own chainmail vest). Does your bunny regularly fend off viking attacks? ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400/62 "2009-10-26T20:23:13Z")
**madrabbitwoman** , thanks. It makes sense that ducks at the top of the pecking order, so to speak, need to dress well, like Eva Gabor with webbed feet. Bunnies in chain mail I understand. I’d love to see the hawk that tries to snatch that rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400/63 "2009-10-26T23:23:21Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > Does your bunny regularly fend off viking attacks? Hmmm… No but he does beat the everliving snot out of my cats every so often. I belong to a SCA group and they have designated him a “war-rabbit” his full title at the moment is _HRH Bellamy of the bunnykins, defeater of cats and nibbler of things he probably oughtn’t_ Gratuitous bunny shot: [Chainmaille | HRH Bellamy of the Bunnykins, defeater of cats… | Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/madrabbitwoman/4048351972/) ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400/64 "2009-10-27T02:23:41Z")
Such great stories! Kudos to everyone! **madrabbitwoman** I LOVE a world where ducks and bunnies dress up! As for me, I turned 40 back in September. Just after a big change at work where b/c of new job titles,etc…to keep my job, I had to take a paycut and radically change my hours. It was a bit of a humble, but I used something an old boss said recently (after losing his job)\* “Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you deal with it.” I decided that I was just going to be gungho with the new job. So after a decade of office work–I’ve now learned how to use a pallet jack! I’m actually getting halfway good at it. It’s harder than it might seem. My first few tries involved people laughing hysterically at me and taking cellphone photos. It’s silly, but I’m proud of myself! - He later got arrested for whatever it was he got in trouble with…so hmmm. Still it’s a good philosophy. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400/65 "2009-10-27T03:28:28Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I chased a girl. Not that I stalked her, just that I had the guts ask her out and tried very hard to start a relationship. True, she rejected me after 2 dates, but having been painfully shy with zero self-confidence for as long as I can remember I’m kinda proud. So there. Yah; congrats! I kinda lost all self-confidence wrt women some time ago and am still working on it. My stuff:[ul][_]Zero debt for three years and 34 days![_]Moved from the job that was making me angry and stressed out; went to a job that just stresses me out (an enormous improvement)[_]On two occasions in recent weeks, I’ve walked into meetings with high-level managers and told them that we’d discovered problems in some of our software, that they were serious, they were embarrassingly stupid, and offered suggestions on how to inform the customers so they might not go nuclear. This from someone who considers the next item below a major victory[_]Briefly came out of hibernation and saw [Star Wars in 30](http://www.starwars30.com/Welcome.html) with some friends of friends several weeks ago. And I didn’t cancel at the last minute because of a panic attack! (Rather, I didn’t let my panic attack cause me to cancel).[/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toot-your-own-horn-thread/514400.md?page=3)