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I can just see it now - a pirate resume.

2004 - present Lady Anne, out of Nantucket, MA

Plundered, engaged in swordfighting, swashbuckled and swabbed decks as needed. Increased booty take by 23% percent. Won the prestigious Blackbeard Award for Shiniest Earring, 2005 and 2006.

2000 - 2004 Andrea Gale, out of Martha's Vineyard, MA

Reason for leaving position: ship destroyed in "Perfect Storm".

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jespah wrote:

dlowan wrote:
patiodog wrote:
Lapless? How do you drink?

Sips, pinkie flying, like a damn Bostonian.

I don't have pinkies, I have dew claws.

Oh, dew yew?

Different name.

Same damn pinkie.

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you guys be makin fun of me arnt u?
well there be the black cures on ye now
may ur boies sint to the bottom of davie jonses loker to rot

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Dews are thumbs, silly people.

collector -- do you ever get confused and scratch your goolies with your hook hand?

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patiodog wrote:

Dews are thumbs, silly people.

collector -- do you ever get confused and scratch your goolies with your hook hand?

No they are not.....they are useless sticking out appendages for show, like the pinkie.

And that would be exactly how a damned Bostonian dog would use them.

I grant you, when looked at from a bog naive taxonomic viewpoint they occupy a place on the canine paw analogous to that of the thumb on the human hand, but, functionally speaking, they are the opposite of the wondrous human thumb, from which so much has sprung.

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soul_collector wrote:

you guys be makin fun of me arnt u?
well there be the black cures on ye now
may ur boies sint to the bottom of davie jonses loker to rot

I'm not laughing at you.

I'm laughing WITH you.

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dlowan wrote:

patiodog wrote:
Dews are thumbs, silly people.

collector -- do you ever get confused and scratch your goolies with your hook hand?

No they are not.....they are useless sticking out appendages for show, like the pinkie.

And that would be exactly how a damned Bostonian dog would use them.

I grant you, when looked at from a bog naive taxonomic viewpoint they occupy a place on the canine paw analogous to that of the thumb on the human hand, but, functionally speaking, they are the opposite of the wondrous human thumb, from which so much has sprung.

How can you possibly say the pinkie is useless? The pinkie serves wonderfully well in grasping big, round things. And I hardly could type without it. And the slender pinkies is sometimes best for getting into a small tiger balm jar or an irritated ear canal (absent any proper ear-sticking utensil).

Now, the pinkie toe -- that's a useless appendage. But don't disrespect the pinkie finger.

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patiodog wrote:

dlowan wrote:
patiodog wrote:
Dews are thumbs, silly people.

collector -- do you ever get confused and scratch your goolies with your hook hand?

No they are not.....they are useless sticking out appendages for show, like the pinkie.

And that would be exactly how a damned Bostonian dog would use them.

I grant you, when looked at from a bog naive taxonomic viewpoint they occupy a place on the canine paw analogous to that of the thumb on the human hand, but, functionally speaking, they are the opposite of the wondrous human thumb, from which so much has sprung.

How can you possibly say the pinkie is useless? The pinkie serves wonderfully well in grasping big, round things. And I hardly could type without it. And the slender pinkies is sometimes best for getting into a small tiger balm jar or an irritated ear canal (absent any proper ear-sticking utensil).

Now, the pinkie toe -- that's a useless appendage. But don't disrespect the pinkie finger.

I shall disrespect it whenever I please.

Sounds like your paws need smallening, if'n you can't get but yer damn pinkie into the tiger balm jar.

But...all this big pawed quiffling aside, are you seriously arguing that the pathetic thing is analogous in any way...other than by accident of analogous location...to the mighty thumb?

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Damn.

I used analogous twice.

I hate that.

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Strictly speaking, the first digit of the dog is homologous to the first digit of the human, regardless of utility. I mean, to really be precise about the while thing.

Incidentally, the digit that horses have is the third, so all horses are, at all times, flipping you off.

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patiodog wrote:

Strictly speaking, the first digit of the dog is homologous to the first digit of the human, regardless of utility. I mean, to really be precise about the while thing.

Incidentally, the digit that horses have is the third, so all horses are, at all times, flipping you off.

That was your bony equivalent of saying "Yes, Deb, you are utterly correct" wasn't it?

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If you need to think so, yes, it was.

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patiodog wrote:

If you need to think so, yes, it was.

I have no need to think such, I simply do think it, oh fellow of infinite jest.

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Okay.

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patiodog wrote:

Okay.

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soul_collector wrote:

you guys be makin fun of me arnt u?
well there be the black cures on ye now
may ur boies sint to the bottom of davie jonses loker to rot

u think a pirate that dumb then ye will be fooled easaly by me

i do know of a captin that did do tha once and alas he is untestic now the poor wrentch, commin into port to spend a plesant evening has foreva changed for the poor sea dog

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How come, considering the whole sea dog thing, I want to call you soul_collie, almost as if Lassie were wearing shades and listening to James Brown?

p'dawg, are the dewclaws evolutionarily (is that even a word?) migrating upwards, soon to be gone forever? Are dogs becoming hooved?

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Dunno. My dogs use theirs to clean their eyes. Certainly there doesn't seem to be any selective pressure to maintain the first digit: some dogs barely have one, some have multiples.

I'd hate to see a hoofed dog, though. Wouldn't do well in the snow. (The dogs today had their webbed feet splayed out, running on top of snow I was sinking knee-deep in....)

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