TS: "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?" vs "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow"
I don't think it's a kinship, at least not in my case. I'm sure some of my relatives are hairy bumsniffers, but that's about it.
Oh we do have fun.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
With that done, there was some interesting stuff about the domestication of certain animals (including dogs) in Guns, Germs and Steel, but it wasn't the comprehensive woof-fest you might be looking for. I too would like to read such a book. I hope all of those people over on ILE who are complaining about writing non-fiction book pitches are reading this.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Accent Monkey, I think you might be right, but the bit about 'robbers' in HMITDITW is open to interpretation, re. 'even if it must be burglary'. Both songs strike me as suitable Gentle Waves B-sides.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I think there's a strange half-tame wolf-dog thing living on the traveller's site next to where I work, I saw it this morning.
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
by the way, where's the thread where the ilxors are complaining about non-fiction pitches?
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
one of things i'm curious to track down - and i don't think this is from guns, germs & steel - is the argument that human development was actually shaped by canine characteristics, that we've been hanging out with dogs so long that we have adopted some dog-traits. i think that horses supposedly had similar effects. i'm not really sure if i actually read this somewhere (and understood it properly if i did) or if am just making this up.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sean Walsh, Monday, 13 June 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
this is a bit off-topic, but my mother sent me a write-up of a really fascinating study done in Hungary on how dogs interact with humans and how it differs from wolves. it goes a fair bit into the related subject of so-called emotional intelligence, which is probably the most interesting. i can email it if you'd like.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 January 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link