One of their traditional Chinese names is "purple mouth dog!" I think it's interesting that they are born with pink tongues and only get the purple later.
I didn't put this in my explainer post, but apparently some people think that the model for teddy bears comes not from Teddy Roosevelt, but from Queen Vic's Chows. One could see how that's possible, certainly.
Why don't we get the same squicky feeling about eating little lambs - or bunnies? No, I don't want to eat the dogs, I want to pet them. It's just one of those things I wonder about.
This reads like a dystopian nightmare. It really does sound like the Republican "solution" to their electoral anxieties is simply to disenfranchise women altogether.
I admit--even though I had a career and reputation when I got married lo, these 12 years ago, I did change my name. This is because while I love my family, NOBODY ever spelled or pronounced my name correctly and I was sick of it. The kid I was still hated the taunting way other kids mispronounced it. AND, my husband's last name with my first and middle names is SWEET.
Only a few people still work with me who knew that name, and it's cute when they forget.
But luckily my state didn't give me a lot of static when I got my RealID.
I'm still conflicted about it & we've been married for 11 years.
I initially didn't want to change my name if I ever got married because even as a little girl, the practice always seemed odd to me & a little unfair... like why am I expected to give up my name??
But I also would like to distance myself from some of my family & I was planning on changing my last name to my mom's maiden name before I met my husband. I never did the name change to my mom's maiden name because I kinda had a feeling my husband was going to be my husband, & it felt like a waste of time, $$, & energy changing my name ahead of getting married, when I could change my name more easily after getting married.
But then we got married...& I got paralyzed by my options. It felt wrong to change my last name to my husband's & it felt wrong & weird to change my name to my mom's maiden name after getting married.
And so I haven't done anything to this day, & like I said, we've been married 11 years now. I still would like to change my name, but neither option feels right & so I guess I will just have to keep on trucking with my own damn name until I can figure it out 🤷🏻♀️
(On the upside, it pisses off some of those family members from which I would like to have more distance that I haven't changed my name, so that's fun lol)
My husband had floated the idea of us both having hyphenated names--like both of ours--and I was like, you have zero idea how annoying my last name is and now that would make it more annoying.
When I was acting, I had planned (with the blessing of my parents) to use my dad's middle name as my stage name, so it's been a long time that I'd been thinking of it too.
I like that idea (the hyphenated names) in theory, but I feel like a lot of the time one of the names still gets defaulted to over the other in practice. Or at least that's how it happened a lot with my sister...most of the time she was just Mrs. So&So instead of Mrs. Othername-So&So.
Luckily, my husband just wants me to be happy & doesn't care much if I change my name or not. He said I'm the one who has to do the paperwork, so it's up to me lol.
I know some people who combined without the hyphen and that wouldn't have worked either. In fact, I have a friend whose parents combined their names, and then she married with a hyphen with that, so her last name is along the lines of "Smith-Jonesfranklin" and it's crazy.
Same here. I abandoned my maiden name because it's extremely unusual, hard to spell, and unknown outside of Montana/North Dakota. Everyone with my maiden name is related to me.
I swapped it for Mr. Anzu's last name, which is an Anglo-Saxon surname so common it's now used as a girl's first name.
Same story with my wife. Her name was hard to pronounce, not that I ever had a problem, but when we married she opted to be a "Brown" for convenience. 45 years later she hasn't regretted it. The name change; I'm not sure about me.
My last name is almost always mispronounced by anyone who is unfamiliar with it. That was occasionally a source of embarrassment when I was young. When my wife and I were expecting and discussing a potential first name for our son, I stipulated that it must meet three criteria: it had to be easy to pronounce correctly when read, it had to be easy to spell correctly when heard, and it couldn't be anything weird.
We settled on Jackson (in 1994) and thought it would be unique enough to distinguish him a bit from his peers. There were three Jacksons in his third grade class. 🤣
We chose "Sarah for our daughter thinking it was a name that would not be misspelled, not knowing we'd be forever have to answer "Is that Sarah with an 'h'?" *sigh*
"The note was placed in a box dropped off months earlier at the home of an unidentified person who did not open it until after last Sunday's arrest. The box also contained ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, tools, phones and various letters. The person who received the box and contacted law enforcement was not identified in the Justice Department's detention memo."
Why didn't they open the box before? They had to know he was crazy.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, and you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected, and selected.
THere's probably no answer to this, but how do I KNOW Amazon is forwarding pennies to Wonkette when I use my "Wonkazon" link? I've always wondered, and now, cuz Trix says Amazon bucks are down, how do I really know?
Did anyone else see the WaPo story about the guy with the gun at TFG's golf course leaving a letter with a friend that spoke of an "attempted assassination " that failed -- long before it had been attempted.
Apparently Obama has been loaning his time travel tech to just anyone who asks.
I went to get my Real ID a couple of years ago-thankfully my passport is in my married name! But a woman there wasn't as lucky, she was crying because she couldn' produce any of the documentation that would allow her to get her Real ID. I tell all my young women friends-don't change your name when you get married! but most of them do.
> That's part of a bill passed by the U.S. House Thursday, seeking to supersede the "all-comers" policies approved by the Supreme Court in 2010. Democrats, including Equality Caucus Chair Mark Pocan, are outraged.
"Anyway, what if we didn’t reopen Three Mile Fucking Island to power Microsoft’s Fucking AI?"
Look, if we're going to allow corporations to operate their own nuclear reactors, I want to be in on the Theranos Diablo Canyon Reactor before that company goes...oh. Never mind.
Ha! I actually HAD one of those - as an adult - that a garage sale queen friend gave me as a gift. And it still had the Uranium vial inside. I did not keep it for long, but sometimes wonder whether it may have been a factor in the cancer for which I underwent treatment some years ago.
Similarly, the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque at least in the past used to sell blueprints of Fat Man and Little Boy. I guess there was a key design schematic omitted. But STILL.
It's your hed gif source info for today, with a bit of history also too: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/chow-puppies
And your meme chat thread: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/8b96814d-077f-4774-9adc-d1210c4ec750
pudgy-butts are toooo cute
Still, I just don't think it's right to domesticate bears.
like
Puppies!! Thank you very much. I would like to cuddle with them, please.
Maybe they got the name "chow" because they are so adorable I want to eat their faces, nom nom!
They show off nicely
And it's a crime
That show and chow
Will never rhyme
Now do through, though, and tough.
That is one trough from which I shall not drink.
Floofy babies!!! A good way to start Monday morning.
Mom is indeed reserved and dignified; she’s all like “y’all stop rolly-polly-ing about like a bunch of adorable fuzzballs”.
Now those are some cuddly snuggle puppies.
They are so so cute. A neighbor - moved years ago- had a chow. The tongue - so strange
One of their traditional Chinese names is "purple mouth dog!" I think it's interesting that they are born with pink tongues and only get the purple later.
https://chowchowcommunity.com/health-wellbeing/why-do-chow-chows-have-blue-tongues-the-legends-the-science/
shar peis, also and too
(I miss my Zulu)
There was a sweet shar pei boy at the dog park.
Some idiot had thought that big ol' "Samson" (change that name!) would be a good fighting dog and clipped his ears.
But he was a lover, not a fighter, and was rescued from a brutal life to live in luxury and be cherished.
(He always reminded me of Ferdinand the Bull, sniffing the flowers.)
I knew a Golden Retriever that had a big blue/black splotch on her tongue.
I like the paint sky story - however I am a volunteer in a science museum so I have to go with the possible genetic evidence
Recently, a Chinese zoo painted two Chows to look like pandas and put them on display. They were crucified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtBfCfQTuQ
But if Chows are all dignified and pandas all goofy, how did they pull it off?
Drugs. Pot, most likely.
They didn't. That's why they got in trouble.
Are you sure they were chows? Because it sounds like a shih tzu.
/pun
As well they should have been.
The indignity they suffered upon those poor dogs is unforgiveable.
Who wants to see crucified Chows? Crazy zoo folks.
Jesuit Crisco, now that is animal abuse!
To... much... skin... ;>D
Cute chubby floofs!
Mama bear and her bear cubs!
I didn't put this in my explainer post, but apparently some people think that the model for teddy bears comes not from Teddy Roosevelt, but from Queen Vic's Chows. One could see how that's possible, certainly.
I don't know about that, but I do know that Winnie The Pooh was named after a zoo bear called Winnipeg, formerly a mascot to some Canadian soldiers.
Possibly, but then, why would they call them "Teddy"
Also, why do we call slinky sleepwear "teddy"
https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/did-a-chow-chow-inspire-the-teddy-bear/
Imagine a grizzly bear wearing a teddy. You are now stuck with that image.
I would say now imagine Mr Roosevelt wearing the teddy. You are now stuck with THAT image.
Oh my!
Rule 34......
Meh. Covers more than going full Pooh Bear.
Blood and Honey
No, we call that chemise.
Teddy got around...
Vicky Chow does not have the same ring as does Teddy Bear.
'Vicky Chow' sounds like
1) A new pre-prepared meal system for single women
2) A new Asian-American actress
Or some exotic Purina animal food.
made with real victoria jackson.
I mention it!
I saw it.
Why don't we get the same squicky feeling about eating little lambs - or bunnies? No, I don't want to eat the dogs, I want to pet them. It's just one of those things I wonder about.
I occasionally get that same squicky feeling about eating any animals which is why I would be a vegetarian if I had to forage for my own food.
Oh! I know the answer to your question! They'll build a fossil-fueled plant instead. Maybe coal, probably natural gas.
Nuclear has to be a part of decarbonizing the grid. It really does.
This reads like a dystopian nightmare. It really does sound like the Republican "solution" to their electoral anxieties is simply to disenfranchise women altogether.
Regarding the story about Kamikatsu, the zero-waste town in Japan, my question is how this place earned the name "Divine Breaded Fried Cutlet". 😁
Between bitcoin and AI, technology is going to be the death of us. Stop using some much electricity on useless stuff!
I admit--even though I had a career and reputation when I got married lo, these 12 years ago, I did change my name. This is because while I love my family, NOBODY ever spelled or pronounced my name correctly and I was sick of it. The kid I was still hated the taunting way other kids mispronounced it. AND, my husband's last name with my first and middle names is SWEET.
Only a few people still work with me who knew that name, and it's cute when they forget.
But luckily my state didn't give me a lot of static when I got my RealID.
I'm still conflicted about it & we've been married for 11 years.
I initially didn't want to change my name if I ever got married because even as a little girl, the practice always seemed odd to me & a little unfair... like why am I expected to give up my name??
But I also would like to distance myself from some of my family & I was planning on changing my last name to my mom's maiden name before I met my husband. I never did the name change to my mom's maiden name because I kinda had a feeling my husband was going to be my husband, & it felt like a waste of time, $$, & energy changing my name ahead of getting married, when I could change my name more easily after getting married.
But then we got married...& I got paralyzed by my options. It felt wrong to change my last name to my husband's & it felt wrong & weird to change my name to my mom's maiden name after getting married.
And so I haven't done anything to this day, & like I said, we've been married 11 years now. I still would like to change my name, but neither option feels right & so I guess I will just have to keep on trucking with my own damn name until I can figure it out 🤷🏻♀️
(On the upside, it pisses off some of those family members from which I would like to have more distance that I haven't changed my name, so that's fun lol)
My husband had floated the idea of us both having hyphenated names--like both of ours--and I was like, you have zero idea how annoying my last name is and now that would make it more annoying.
When I was acting, I had planned (with the blessing of my parents) to use my dad's middle name as my stage name, so it's been a long time that I'd been thinking of it too.
I like that idea (the hyphenated names) in theory, but I feel like a lot of the time one of the names still gets defaulted to over the other in practice. Or at least that's how it happened a lot with my sister...most of the time she was just Mrs. So&So instead of Mrs. Othername-So&So.
Luckily, my husband just wants me to be happy & doesn't care much if I change my name or not. He said I'm the one who has to do the paperwork, so it's up to me lol.
I know some people who combined without the hyphen and that wouldn't have worked either. In fact, I have a friend whose parents combined their names, and then she married with a hyphen with that, so her last name is along the lines of "Smith-Jonesfranklin" and it's crazy.
Same here. I abandoned my maiden name because it's extremely unusual, hard to spell, and unknown outside of Montana/North Dakota. Everyone with my maiden name is related to me.
I swapped it for Mr. Anzu's last name, which is an Anglo-Saxon surname so common it's now used as a girl's first name.
Same story with my wife. Her name was hard to pronounce, not that I ever had a problem, but when we married she opted to be a "Brown" for convenience. 45 years later she hasn't regretted it. The name change; I'm not sure about me.
My last name is almost always mispronounced by anyone who is unfamiliar with it. That was occasionally a source of embarrassment when I was young. When my wife and I were expecting and discussing a potential first name for our son, I stipulated that it must meet three criteria: it had to be easy to pronounce correctly when read, it had to be easy to spell correctly when heard, and it couldn't be anything weird.
We settled on Jackson (in 1994) and thought it would be unique enough to distinguish him a bit from his peers. There were three Jacksons in his third grade class. 🤣
We chose "Sarah for our daughter thinking it was a name that would not be misspelled, not knowing we'd be forever have to answer "Is that Sarah with an 'h'?" *sigh*
What Pa.'s US representatives, senators said when asked if they'll accept election result
https://www.goerie.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/23/pa-election-senate-house-poll-accept-vote-results/75267193007/
#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
Trump’s Conspiracy Theory Campaign
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/23/trump-campaign-conspiracy-theories/
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/XGqhcy
> Stoking and exploiting racist fears of immigrants is essentially all that Trump is running on.
#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025
Ryan Routh's Eleven Phones and Two Iran Mentions - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/23/ryan-rouths-eleven-phones-and-two-iran-mentions/
> The detention memo for Ryan Routh includes two mentions of sympathy for Iran and eleven different phones, at least some using different carriers.
"The note was placed in a box dropped off months earlier at the home of an unidentified person who did not open it until after last Sunday's arrest. The box also contained ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, tools, phones and various letters. The person who received the box and contacted law enforcement was not identified in the Justice Department's detention memo."
Why didn't they open the box before? They had to know he was crazy.
"What's in the box?!!!!
Dear Men,
I would rather be respected than protected.
Love,
Moi
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, and you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected, and selected.
They've also got a girl who calls herself the human trampoline.
You go sit on the Group W bench, now.
THere's probably no answer to this, but how do I KNOW Amazon is forwarding pennies to Wonkette when I use my "Wonkazon" link? I've always wondered, and now, cuz Trix says Amazon bucks are down, how do I really know?
Did anyone else see the WaPo story about the guy with the gun at TFG's golf course leaving a letter with a friend that spoke of an "attempted assassination " that failed -- long before it had been attempted.
Apparently Obama has been loaning his time travel tech to just anyone who asks.
I went to get my Real ID a couple of years ago-thankfully my passport is in my married name! But a woman there wasn't as lucky, she was crying because she couldn' produce any of the documentation that would allow her to get her Real ID. I tell all my young women friends-don't change your name when you get married! but most of them do.
"Shyyyyyy make me a DIY copper bistro shelves, the children need more beautiful glass objects to crash into!"
"These shelves are not only beautiful, but also IDEAL for creating multiple damage hazards in your home!" - Earthquake Damage Design Quarterly
Okay, who were the 4 Democrats who voted with the Repubs???
Republicans want colleges to fund student religious groups that discriminate against LGBTQ+ peers
https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-higher-education-discrimination
> That's part of a bill passed by the U.S. House Thursday, seeking to supersede the "all-comers" policies approved by the Supreme Court in 2010. Democrats, including Equality Caucus Chair Mark Pocan, are outraged.
"Anyway, what if we didn’t reopen Three Mile Fucking Island to power Microsoft’s Fucking AI?"
Look, if we're going to allow corporations to operate their own nuclear reactors, I want to be in on the Theranos Diablo Canyon Reactor before that company goes...oh. Never mind.
Build your own!
https://thebulletin.org/virtual-tour/worlds-most-dangerous-toy-radioactive-atomic-energy-lab-kit-with-uranium-1950/
Ha! I actually HAD one of those - as an adult - that a garage sale queen friend gave me as a gift. And it still had the Uranium vial inside. I did not keep it for long, but sometimes wonder whether it may have been a factor in the cancer for which I underwent treatment some years ago.
Similarly, the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque at least in the past used to sell blueprints of Fat Man and Little Boy. I guess there was a key design schematic omitted. But STILL.