I find that dogs wet their noses especially when they are outside simply sniffing, aka, “reading their newspaper” as one dog training book put it. The moisture adds to heighten the incoming scent’s sensibilities without costing a cent.
Spiral, when commenting on a column or report, it’s considered helpful to post a link to the column in question. Is this the one you had in mind?
I thought dogs had wet noses because they had caught a cold.
PS I hope I don’t get into trouble for saying so, but the only reason I posted this was to bump some thread, any thread, past that goddam “fucking A” that’s been staring me in the face every time I look in here.
No wonder this site gets designated “adult” by some of the internet rating agencies (I wonder how that saga is playing out). There’s always an f-u-c-k fuck thread in most if not all forums, always, and quite few of them are really gross, not the kind of shit your boss wants you to be spending time with on his dime, and can you blame him? Not all are immediately identifyable by the thread title, but they are there, masses of them.
I don’t think there has been anything left unsaid about the subject by now, and if I was King of the world, or God, or something like that I would impose a year of neoVictroianism not only on this site, but on the whole damn arrestedly developed world which has going on and on and on about fuckfuckfuckfucking ENOUGH!!!
PPS the purpose of this thread will be lost if it is removed to the pit, or just plain removed, and it really does serve a useful purpose as is, so I hope it is left alone.
Thanks.
colonial, the tangent you have raised really belongs in the ATMB forum. If you’d like further discussion on it, please repost it there.
One reason we’re an “adult” site is that we want to have frank and open discussions about various things. Cecil’s columns (upon which our website was founded) were originally (and still are) published in alternative newspapers, and deal with topics that one won’t often find in mainstream papers. The classic ones are “why is feces brown?” and “what is the caloric count of sperm?”
The origin of “fuckin-A” is another such, although it’s not a column by Cecil, it’s a staff report. And, frankly, since we’re not doing staff reports any more, this forum is pretty much dead, so whatever’s on page one on this forum tends to stay there.
The second reason we’re an adult site is that we don’t want to have to censor language beyond minimum (primarily, when words are directed at another poster.) If use of “fuck” is the way people express themselves – and, frankly, it’s becoming more and more so – then let them. It’s not my personal taste except in extremis but other can do as they choose.
We’re not doing staff reports anymore? I have been asleep.
Are there still Advisory staff?
There are still staff, but I get the impression that Dex has been getting tired of cracking the whip.
Well, I doubt your boss wants you spending time on any (non-work-related) message boards on his dime…
He has less tolerance for sites with a lot of adult raunch than those
with not so much raunch, or no raunch, as in access is automatically
blocked for some but not others. Can you agree that that is a real distinction?
I cannot locate the thread now but there was one describing a problem
with SDMB newly having been slapped being on some adult site no-no list
that got it automatically blocked at a lot of places, as in places where our
valued co-members earn their paychecks. (I guess “earn” is the right word)
That was enough of of a problem to draw the attention of the the highest
administrative levels here, with the aim of reversing the decision to put
SDMB on the no-no list.
My primary thesis is that the word “fuck” and sexual themes are so grossly
overused here that the place should be blocked as “adult”.
My secondary thesis is that I wish members would get over their tiresome
JHS sexual fixations, and devote more effort to intellectually adult subjects
such as those The Master in his unique way devotes Himself to, and BTW
alternative press or no, the word “fuck” rarely if ever occurs in His Work.
Such as:
What’s the best way to sterilize myself without telling my wife?
What’s the market for spare body parts?
Why do one’s loins ache after a session of nonclimactic arousal?
I want to get my nipples pierced. Are there health risks? Plus: sperm trees of Los Angeles
How do sperm banks get sperm from the donor?
Just a small sampling of the high-brow intellectual gems The Master covers… 
The Instructions from the Moderator were, this thread is about wet dog noses. The tangential stuff was OK for a post or two, but at this point, take it ATMB.