What’s In A Name?
Ms. Publicist: Fifteenth of the month, so it’s time for my little talk with Spencer Quinn, where he gives the inside dope on one of the characters from the Chet and Bernie series. What’ll it be today, Spence?
Spencer Quinn: Does anyone ever give the outside dope on something? But to answer the question, how about a character from PAW AND ORDER, which isn’t even out yet?
Ms. P: Nothing in the rules against it.
SQ: Then we’ll talk about Mr. Ferretti. I like every name to suggest something or other, but we have to be much more subtle about it than they were in Dickens’ day – with Mr. Bumble, and Gradgrind, and all that. With Mr. Ferretti – a perfectly plausible Italianate surname – we conjure up a hunting creature very good at digging things up.
Ms. P: The ferret, perhaps?
SQ: None other.
Ms. P: Thanks, Spence. Go do your taxes.
SQ: Argh.
Tags: ferrets, Mr. Ferretti, Paw and Order, What's In A Name
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8:59 am on April 15th, 2014
Good Morning Chet, Spence, Admin & All.
Looking forward to more of Paw & Order.
With the Herd of Hounds permission
and Especially for Sadie Bear,
Have a Treatie Tuesday Everyone!
Healing Thoughts & Bear Hugs headed southeast this morning.
9:02 am on April 15th, 2014
Can’t wait to read more about Mr. Ferretti when P & O comes out in August. Right now we are almost finished with a second reading of TSATF. Skipped the Iko part!
Hope all goes well for Sharon today with her procedure.
They announced on the news this morning that with the snow fall of yesterday we stand at 82.0 inches for the season. The #2 record high is 82.3 inches, so if we get a little more (possible on Friday), then we will slip into the second spot. Not sure if it would be worth it.
Barb is getting ready to head out for her work day. Later.
9:15 am on April 15th, 2014
RIO!!!
9:17 am on April 15th, 2014
Masquers, What a perfect B-Day card for Rio! Right up there with Our Dear Friend’s standards.
9:44 am on April 15th, 2014
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Rio’s Friend
Happy Birthday to YOUUUUUUU!!!!
And happy day to everyone else.
9:58 am on April 15th, 2014
Happy Birthday to You, Rio and Friend!
We Love You!
Good morning, Everyone!
Thinking of you, Sharon.
10:13 am on April 15th, 2014
Why do we have to be more careful today than in Dickens’ day? I like the logic behind the name Ferretti.
Happy Birthday Rio.
Good morning all.
10:14 am on April 15th, 2014
On Sunday it was 78 here. Today we have over two inches of snow and it’s still snowing.
10:19 am on April 15th, 2014
B: Yikes!!!
10:21 am on April 15th, 2014
Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
10:22 am on April 15th, 2014
Masquers: I accustomed to it.
10:23 am on April 15th, 2014
Masquers: Correction– I’m accustomed to it.
10:47 am on April 15th, 2014
Yeeep!…It’s my Birthday and I’ll Twirl if I want to! Twirl if I want to….Woooooo!Hooooo!
10:49 am on April 15th, 2014
Second good morining. Our first was at the end of yesterday’s postings, with an answer to B&M.
Is it Rio’s birthday, or his friend’s birthday, or both? Happy birthday(s) Rio and/or Friend.
HOH is having a procedure? That is a good thing, isn’t it? Whenever one of us gets in the car with the ‘rents, the others of us were always informed that he or she was going for a procedure. When he or she came back home, we could smell fun stuff like beer or dirt or fun dogs all over him.
It is raining Herbs and Royals here. We may need to look for toys under the bed soon.
11:18 am on April 15th, 2014
Howlers: Better rain than snow.
And what’s with these crazy temperature changes like B and B&M are experiencing?
11:20 am on April 15th, 2014
BTW: We Here agree with you about 12 Years and for that reason could not give it Five Stars.
11:36 am on April 15th, 2014
Yesterday’s temp of 75 degrees has turned into 31 degrees with a couple inches of snow. What happened? Who left the refrigerator door open?
11:40 am on April 15th, 2014
Princess, Spring has sprung closed.
BSD, we would give 12 Years 5 stars. It is so well-made. Given the subject matter, it had to depress, but that is not necessarily bad. We did have to watch something else afterwards though, or sleeping could have been difficult. We watched Beachfront Bargains. Heh!
11:48 am on April 15th, 2014
News!…Booze news!…snort!
http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2014/03/rio_grande_marg_coors_field.php
11:48 am on April 15th, 2014
Oh no, Sammie, not you too!
11:56 am on April 15th, 2014
Weather!…All youse guys are getting the bad weather we had here Sunday and yesterday…snort!…Today is a beautiful day…wheeze!
11:58 am on April 15th, 2014
Have a clucky Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENJxl-THS8
12:05 pm on April 15th, 2014
Happy Birthday, Rio!!! May you have hotwings and beer to your hearts content today!!
I miss Melanie’s cakes!
12:09 pm on April 15th, 2014
That was for Fern and the Peck o Parrots Mom. sniff
Happy Bday Rio
The Turtleman just called. He has been in negotiations with a production company that is making a TV show based on a traveling print shop. It is based on the true story of building the transcontinental railroad and this print shop would move down the tracks as the railroad was being built.
So it is a period piece and they needed old printing presses and someone gave them his name. He sent off a big load of his presses and assorted different machines that a print shop of that time would use. He told them that they would need someone at their end (Calgary CANADA I think) to assemble them.
So since he is the best one for the job, he will be going to Canada on the day I WAS scheduled to go back home. I will be delayed a few days. He will have a blast!
Maybe I can work this out so Mr.FireSlippers has to vacuum up all the over winter bugs before I get home. Hmmmm. I will have to think about this.
12:12 pm on April 15th, 2014
http://www.drewpress.blogspot.com/
Some of his old machines fixed up…
I wonder if he will take his Chet the Dog passport?
12:29 pm on April 15th, 2014
Staff!….How very cool and interesting for The Turtle Man!….Woooo!…He will have fun!fun!fun! and you will be left behind to work!work!work!…heh!
12:30 pm on April 15th, 2014
Hello All–
I saw a petition on another site, and my first thought was to post here as well, but I don’t know how policy (and the Moderator) feel about such things, so I’ll simply leave a link which y’all may click on or not as you wish.
I hope the day is well-begin for all here. (Feretti?)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/989/939/681/justice-for-fly-left-to-starve-to-a-skeleton-by-owner-david-lowe/
12:31 pm on April 15th, 2014
Aaaargh! Has political correctness invaded the naming of characters in books? I already don’t like Mr. Ferretti.
Happy Birthday Rio!
I made a cake yesterday for Miss M. but it was so pitiful that I didn’t post it (I couldn’t figure out how to post it).
Hooray for Turtleman! Perhaps he will move to Canada some day.
Beautiful day here. Although still below freezing now, it will warm up and begin melting snow in an hour or two.
12:36 pm on April 15th, 2014
I thought of the very expensive Italian sports car when I saw the name, Ferretti.
Happy Birthday, Rio!! Husky Birthday Hugs.
May the Rockies win today.
That is a very cute card, Masquers.
Staff, Wow! We are looking forward to seeing the tv program. Turtleman will have such fun with this.
12:52 pm on April 15th, 2014
Staff: Good for the Turtleman! I do hope we will be able to see the TV program since it will be filmed in Canada.
Rose! Where are you?
1:27 pm on April 15th, 2014
Oh no! Rio is on the rocks!!!
Fern and her sisters are In The Mood.
1:28 pm on April 15th, 2014
The turtleman told me of other shows that this company had produced and they are ones I have heard youse all talking about. I recognized the name. Unfortunately since I am lacking in the TV/Movie department I have forgotten it. I will make him tell me again. Meanwhile it will be a mystery to us all.
Maybe, and I might be starting a rumor here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels_(TV_series)
1:36 pm on April 15th, 2014
Diane, Mom signed that petition. The story and photo are horrendous.
Siber, we thought of your car also.
Dawson? Political correctness? We think you skipped a sentence or two…
1:59 pm on April 15th, 2014
We loved the Chicken Mood. Mama and the Storyteller did some dips and spins, all whole laughing like fools. We love it when humans do cute stuff like that.
Woo Hoo Turtleman! A star is born!
We also want to report that our Gramp is in the hospital. He had to have a procedure that was supposed to be a little fixer-upper, in and out. But the surgeon found a major problem once she started , and she took the time to go in and really fix it. Result was a 4 hour surgery instead if a 45 minute one, and he will be in the hospital and maybe a rehab center for a little bit. BUT if the doc hadn’t found and fixed this, it could have taken our Gramp away from us very suddenly. Instead, once he is over the post surgical recovery, he will be safe and good as new. And he is enjoying the Dancing Giraffe show.
And we are forever grateful to a wonderful, caring and observant surgeon!
2:24 pm on April 15th, 2014
Tupper&Gilly: Strong Prayers coming your way for Gramp. May his Healing be Swift and Complete.
2:26 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio: Happy birthday from all of us here at the kennel including my misplaced eyebrows!
2:28 pm on April 15th, 2014
Best of love and care to all of those under the quilt. (Whispering) T&G, is Callie under the quilt with Gramps?
2:35 pm on April 15th, 2014
Howlers – Mama sat down with Callie and explained it all to her. And said that if the weather is better tomorrow, maybe Callie can go visit him.
3:19 pm on April 15th, 2014
Healing prayers for Gramps. We are thankful for this surgeon.
3:19 pm on April 15th, 2014
Just wishing a very special Happy Birthday to my best bud back on Planet Earth, Commander Rio, from your pal and devoted agent Wookie of Chevy Chase.
4:29 pm on April 15th, 2014
Agent Wookie!…I will never forget all the fun times we had…snort!… We made quite a team, you and I…chuffle!wheeze!
4:30 pm on April 15th, 2014
Wishes!…All the Happy Birthday wishes are great!…snorkel!…You guys are the best! Beau doesn’t know it but I get Steak tonight and he does not! No he does not!…chorkel!
4:53 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio: We are going to blur by some birthday beer and hot wings. We can stay long. We have a couple of wheel chair races scheduled with Gramps.
5:08 pm on April 15th, 2014
Thieves – you will have to race really fast. Gramp has a 20 Giraffe team pulling his chair.
5:16 pm on April 15th, 2014
Burp!…I can make room for Beer and Hot Wings after I chew on some steak…snort!snort!
5:22 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio, somebody needs to blur by here so you can get the real buffalo wings which we call chicken wings here.
5:26 pm on April 15th, 2014
Royals: We aren’t worrit. We have a secret weapon—we are going to put junior in lead with Kat running free in front of the team. We like our chances.
5:39 pm on April 15th, 2014
Happy B-day Rio!
I am hoping we will hear from Wose, ML and HOH today.
5:45 pm on April 15th, 2014
Where is Mr. Wigglebutt?
5:50 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio, I have the wings here waiting for you. I got them from the Anchor Bar which started the whole thing 50 years ago. Now somebody has to get here to pick them up for your big birthday. I’m starting to nibble on them.
6:05 pm on April 15th, 2014
Yeeeep!…Real authentic Hot Wings from Buffalo!…snort!….Thieves go get me some Wings!…wheeze!
6:07 pm on April 15th, 2014
CHobbit!…Are you in Turkey yet?…sniff!
6:10 pm on April 15th, 2014
Aunt MPM, I will blur up to your place to pick up those wings, and drop them off at Rio’s. I think that is on the way to Gramp’s place for the wheel chair race.
Gramps: you should have an easy time in this race. I am not planning to run my normal speed, if you catch my drift. Tee hee!
6:11 pm on April 15th, 2014
Kat!…I’m sure my Junior will catch your Drift…grunt!
6:12 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio! Tee hee hee!
6:18 pm on April 15th, 2014
Oh my-our little Kat is growing up….
6:18 pm on April 15th, 2014
Chomp chomp. No one will miss just a couple of wings from the order.
6:23 pm on April 15th, 2014
Barb and Maggie or any other of you gatdeners, it is supposed to go down to 24 tonight, and snow. Tomorrow night, it is supposed to be 27, and then 31 on Thursday night. We could put a cold frame over our lettuce plants if need be. Do you think they need to be covered?
6:26 pm on April 15th, 2014
Oh, Bellie…
don’t you need these baby edgehogs?
6:26 pm on April 15th, 2014
Carpola! Hedgehogs.
6:32 pm on April 15th, 2014
Hedgie hoggies! I must have them or I am going to be in a very bad mood.
6:34 pm on April 15th, 2014
Chomp chomp. Maybe just one more.
6:35 pm on April 15th, 2014
Grandpa!
We are very grateful that Grandpa had such a good surgeon.
We are sending pawrayers for him and hope that the dancing giraffes and the wheelchair races don’t cause too much disruption at ClubMed.
Those hot-wings were great. I remember when Rio had them before. I had some them also. YUM!
6:37 pm on April 15th, 2014
Grandpa!
We are very grateful that Grandpa had such a good surgeon.
We are sending pawrayers for him and hope that the dancing giraffes and the wheelchair races don’t cause too much disruption at ClubMed.
Those hot-wings were great. I remember when Rio had them before. I had some them also. YUM!
Meashka, tell your Mom to use that cold frame. 27 is pretty cold even for lettuce. Better safe than sorry.
6:39 pm on April 15th, 2014
Thank you, Staff.
6:39 pm on April 15th, 2014
Yikes….OK an attempted Double Dawson failed.
O’Howlers check the addition to the second post…
Mollypop’s Mom…I think you have had enough. Step away from the hotwings…..
7:12 pm on April 15th, 2014
Howlers, Staff may be right on the cold frame. We got snow and didn’t have any problem, but most of the stuff was just starting to appear. What we have looks OK, but we don’t think it got down into the 20s.
Sending big hugs to Gramps. Hope he is back home soon.
We have ordered Twelve Years, the book, from the library, may read it first.
Mr. Banks is also on our list. Just watched the Hobbit movie. Special effects were good, but it was almost 3 hours.
7:14 pm on April 15th, 2014
Rio–HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY (and Edgar, Conan and Ms. Pretty all send Best Wishes). I will be partaking of alcohol again once Sunday rolls around and invite you to blur over for some 14% beer.
O’H–Please thank your Mom for signing. I was sickened and incensed, otherwise wouldn’t have put it up.
Meashka–Are those really baby hedgehogs? How old?
What is this about HOH Mom at Club Med? How can I be of assistance? Does anyone need to come by, sit on her and administer dainty licks (or sloppy ones, in Edgar’s case)
Teddy and Wookie’s Dad–As always, the photos work their magic. Just the sight of them enjoying themselves makes me feel better.
7:21 pm on April 15th, 2014
I’m currently reading The Goldfinch. I was surprised as I had read The Secret History and enjoyed it, but thought she was too into really creepy subject matter to win (so far, so good).
I also missed the Blood Moon because i was watching an astronomy/science show on National Geographic. Fudgesicles! Maybe I can find something on Youtube.
Prestigious but depressing triple bill: 12 Years, Boys Don’t Cry, and Sling Blade.
7:42 pm on April 15th, 2014
We are now watching the second Hunger Games. The second Hobbit is on our DVR for another time.
Until tomorrow…
8:03 pm on April 15th, 2014
Carpola! Firefox isn’t working and IE only shows a few avatars, ours not included. I blame that Blood Moon for all these electronic breakdowns.
May as well signoff.
Riö, enjoy your steak, beer and hot wings.
8:24 pm on April 15th, 2014
GAH!….MollysMaw is eating all my Hot Wings from Buffalo!…wheeze!…Help!Help!
8:33 pm on April 15th, 2014
Burp. No Rio, your hot wings are safe. Maybe.
8:44 pm on April 15th, 2014
GAH!…She is burping to make more room for more of my wings…gasp!
8:57 pm on April 15th, 2014
Oh no! Loulou, don’t touch those hot wings, they’re for Rio.
9:16 pm on April 15th, 2014
MPM: Loulou is just a puppy and can stand to gain a pound or two; Rio on the other hand…..think of it as doing a favor to Rio as you chomp away.
9:19 pm on April 15th, 2014
Chobbit, you are so right. I will finish these up right away to save Rio. Happy birthday buddy.
9:19 pm on April 15th, 2014
Sob!….Sob!Sob!….Those damned Thieves are so unreliable…grump!
9:20 pm on April 15th, 2014
Sob!….My second birthday supper down that vicious LuLu’s gullet….grunt!
9:21 pm on April 15th, 2014
Night all, and enjoy the wings and beer. Barb had some of those wings, they are delish!
9:30 pm on April 15th, 2014
Nighttime here. Wings were great, thank you Rio. Happy birthday!
9:37 pm on April 15th, 2014
Stomp!…grunt!…I’m still hungry here!….sniff!
10:15 pm on April 15th, 2014
Poor Rio, First when he visits Lou-lou in NY she beats him up and now she is eating all his wings. sniff. I feel his pain. She is one tough little puppy.
10:29 pm on April 15th, 2014
Saying good night here too.
Happy Birthday Rio – those wings just hit the spot tonight, they surely did. *urp*
11:19 pm on April 15th, 2014
What!?…Did everyone get Wings except Me!Me!Me!???…wheeze!…We are up watching baseball, but I’m told I am headed to my birthday bed very soon….grumble!
11:34 pm on April 15th, 2014
For MPM: Mountains, glacier and Blood Moon:
12:13 am on April 16th, 2014
Burp!
12:25 am on April 16th, 2014
Best wishes to Gramps. Glad things were caught in time.
Happy Birthday, Pug..
Life still going on here. Night night
12:39 am on April 16th, 2014
Birthday pug: We stopped to check on HoH and ended up taking her on a wheelchair ride around the block one or two or three times. Check your favorite marking tree. We will meet you there with a fresh batch of wings and beer. If anything is better than birthday wings and beer it is wings and beer when you least expect them.
1:21 am on April 16th, 2014
Today is the birthday of another someone. It is also our friend, Phillip’s birthday! Yark! We thought about giving him back any gloves that we rightfully stole from him, but decided against it.
Nighty nutter butters.
2:44 am on April 16th, 2014
Phillip was on TV on his birthday with the Snowhook dogs talking about his Iditarod 2015 goal!
http://www.youralaskalink.com/news/ASD-Teacher-trains-for-2015-Iditarod–255443541.html
6:52 am on April 16th, 2014
Who was that guy near the end of the video who stole Junior’s eyebrows?
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