To be fair, she did laugh at him. No wonder he set the place on fire.
Interesting. I never got that interpretation from just listening to the song but McCartney confirmed that as the actual meaning.
A hammock sounds like fun, but no…
Depends on the type of search dog. Hounds bay on a scent, so that they can be tracked (they are often used loose, in packs). But hounds, except bloodhounds, aren’t used to track people, by and large.
The kind of search dog I’m familiar with does not bark until they find the someone, and, depending on training, either stands there and barks, or runs off to find their handler and bring them (the latter is the Search And Rescue type). Breeds are mainly Labs or K-9 breeds like German Shepherds, Malinois, and so forth. I think bloodhounds are generally worked on leash, the others not. A dog can work a trail faster than a person can easily run, and if the trail is difficult they quarter the ground, which is pretty hard to follow on a leash.
The whole barking on a leash thing is bogus.
“I’m a toddler being tortured in the woods!” is what they say
My BIL has a bloodhound and is active in the nosework/tracking community. He works the dog on a longline, and struggles to keep up. Last winter he helped the state game commission with apprehending a guy who was hunting bear illegally.
My BIL was training his dog on state gamelands. He found an area where someone had smeared trees with peanut butter. There was a case of empty plastic jars, and every tree in a small plot was smeared.
The state game guy took a report and asked my BIL to keep him informed… When my BIL next saw the car that was in the lot the last time, he called the warden. He brought a few more men. My BIL took his dog to the car and let him sniff. Then he told him “find” and off they went!
They found the guy, who then tried to run away. They had no trouble apprehending him. He was armed (out of season) and ended up pleading guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence.
cool story.
I helped with a training exercise last fall. I walked into the woods dragging a line with a teddy bear doused in scent. I walked with my gf and her two nephews in a group.
After about 1/2 mile one of the nephews veered off left and circled back. In another 1/2 mile a second nephew veered off right and circled back.
After another 1/2 mile I veered off, crossed a creek, and continued on to an endpoint I chose at random. I sat and waited, but not for very long. My BIL and his bloodhound found me. He kept an oral recording as they tracked me. He (and the dog) knew where people veered off and had no problem concentrating on me.
Yep. So very true.
also waterbeds.
I once spent a few Saturdays being a ‘victim’ for SAR teams and hiding as best as I could far out in the forest – like bury myself in leaves under a tree trunk, or climb a tree. I never had to wait more than ten minutes. Those dogs were incredible.
I had a girlfriend with a California King waterbed that had no baffles. Coital activities were quite possible and pleasant but you had to adjust to the rhythms of the bed. If the top got out of sync they risked getting disengaged or even thrown out of the bed.
Yeah, I found I didn’t care for my rhythms to be dictated by a piece of furniture.
Ah, but when you are in sync… She thought I had another inch.
Yep, I did enjoy sex on my non-waveless waterbed a whole lot. If you didn’t want to be slave to it’s rhythm, you could always move to doggie style.
Moving it to a new location was what made me say “nope” to that silly contraption.
Dear Penthouse Forum: I never thought I’d actually try this, but I was getting jealous of some of my Dopey acquaintances…
Hehe, I read the wiki entry on waterbeds just for fun. It states:
That does make me wonder what my parents were thinking when they got one for their teen-aged son. Maybe grand kids?
Back in the early '80s, I knew a woman who had a waterbed. I found the squish-squish sounds it made during our gyrations to be something of a distraction.
Worse than squeaking bed springs?
Depends on how often one is incontinent, I suppose. 