That just looks like a black German Shepherd to me.... x/
Makes me glad my dog can only reach above my knees when she stands on her hind legs. Woot for dachshund mixes!
Tuef: I thought Marines were—oh wait.
edited 25th Nov '10 8:38:53 PM by Leradny
They're lighter built, (average is about 10 pounds lighter than GSD of the same height) Leradny, with a slightly more delicate face, and in profile when he's standing, his back is level, rather than sloping down to the hips like a German Shepherd's often does. Otherwise pretty much the same.
edited 25th Nov '10 8:42:49 PM by Madrugada
That is also one big dog. When you mentioned that he was only able to hide his head under the bed you weren't kidding.
Tuefel: I thought you were a Marine. Or is this one of those "I know how they think" things.
Looks like the Westboro idiots are going to be here for a funeral tomorrow. Damn them. Looks like the Patriot Guard will be here too. They think probably 120 bikes. It'll be a cold day for them.
I meant like on the food network and public access channels.
Yes indeed I do know what marines are like (I was not like most Marines interestingly enough) and I also know how naive my sister in law can be. I was the straight laced guy they brought along to keep them out of too much trouble. Unless they wanted to find trouble.
Who watches the watchmen?Well, Thanksgiving dinner was a huge success. The turkey came out excellent; a 22 pound bird that we shoved half a pound of butter mixed with garlic, onion, English mustard, and curry powder under the skin, shoved a quartered, peeled onion in the body cavity, and roasted for 3 hours breast down and then 2 breast up with a foil tent over it to stop the breast drying out too much.
We combined that with tricolor mashed potatoes (red, white and blue potatoes) with about half a pound of butter in them, barbecue-roasted sweet potatoes peeled and mashed with more butter, fresh green beans done in a skillet with butter, fresh ground pepper, salt and garlic, excellent gravy, cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries and done sugar-free, and bready dressing stuff (that I didn't eat). Our guests brought or made food too; CJ and his wife brought a spiral ham and potato salad and she had made home-made Dutch apple pie (she's from Holland, so we're talking real dutch here). Ashton made bbq sausages in sauce with onions and sweet hot peppers, which were tasty as hell.
Our cat Osiris escaped during the evening but we found him again and recaptured him. I think he was having a pout about not being the center of attention. This was the one that was gone for almost three months last year. He was rather scared by the cold and the dogs — it's going to be cold tonight, already below 50 and estimated at 39 degrees Fahrenheit tonight, which is really cold for Los Angeles.
A brighter future for a darker age.Morven: You can come have my cold weather then. Ill take your 50's for our local single digit weather. Tell you what the coldest weather I have ever been in was -20 on a mountain. The kind of cold that just bites you through the flesh and skin to caress your bones and seize your core with its frosty fingers.
Who watches the watchmen?For a holiday dinner, lots of butter works. It's not necessarily what one should be eating that much of all the time, but late fall / winter holiday dinners are supposed to be warming, rich food.
In fact, part of the point is supposed to be that it's a dinner you wouldn't be eating most of the time — or so it seems to me.
@Tuefel: no thanks ;) Though I've been in pretty cold, never down to -20.
edited 26th Nov '10 1:07:33 AM by Morven
A brighter future for a darker age.

Teuf: Belgian shepherd mix. Groenendael
, we think. (Scroll down to the picture of "Indy" in the sand on that link. Clint looks almost exactly like that.) Like a German shepherd but without the sloping hips.
edited 25th Nov '10 8:26:30 PM by Madrugada