What should Michelle Obama call her dog?
February 28th 2009 01:43
A Portuguese water dog
America's First Lady has made a decision which is receiving as much press, and perhaps more praise, than anything her presidential husband has managed recently.
Michelle Obama has decided that the new family dog, America's First Pooch, will be a Portuguese water dog.
It is a decision which has been met with a lot of questioning looks. Google searches on 'Portuguese water dog' have probably risen from one a month to 10 million a day.
Assuming this is not a shaggy story, and Mrs Obama is serious about her decision, the desire to learn something about the breed is understandable.
If there is one word to summarise the Portuguese water dog breed, it is: shaggy.
Other breed characteristics can be summed up in Michelle Obama's own words. "Temperamentally they're supposed to be pretty good," she said in an interview with People magazine. "From the size perspective, they're sort of middle of the road ... and the folks that we know who own them have raved about them."
The family is planning to acquire the dog soon, after returning from a spring break. One major decision remains - what to name it.
Leave your suggestions in a comment box below and I will personally see to it that your ideas are forwarded to the White House. Please note that it is believed that Mrs Obama has already ruled out the name Dubbya.
The Age; image: www.pups4sale.co.nz
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Comment by Teresa Ralton
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She should call it Schnookie Wookie
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Interesting suggestion, Schnookie Wookie
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Shaggy
or
Wetdog
or
Ruffles
or
George (no that won't work)
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Harri
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Max or Maxine
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Rex or Rexine
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Fido
I could come up hundreds but the dog should name itself, it's better that way.
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/but seriously/ I do like Lincoln, it suits him.
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Comment by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
Michelle Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in her heart and mind she inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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