h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Awww Daisy and Napoleon. So adorable. I think if I was a little hound I'd find that strange pink brush creature really scary. As it was, when I first saw the photo I wanted to go woof woof what is that pink triffid thingie.

Does it make a kind of sloshy scrapy sound as it washes the car?

If they're miniatures maybe that was a bloody big red setter running by?

Yes, or Basil Carwash Brush.

They're kind of soft and floopy, those brushes. Babies and dogs don't like being in the car wash, though.

Pink brush creature named Floopy.

It's Deep Space Nine!
No! It's more like Buck Rogers!

Yeah but! If we try telling the humansThey'll only think we want to go pee!

I think that, on some level, the dogs are reacting to the movement of the brush.

Take us to your lizard!

Daisy is desperately trying to push the button to open the window with her nose.

The short one is Napoleon.

is there also one named Snowball?

No. Mrs McGillicuddy wouldn't name a miniature dachshund Snowball. Come to think of it, I don't think there was ever even a Hoggett cat named Snowball. Although I remember Puff. He was an enormous orange cat.

Napoleon and Snowball were the two evil pigs in "Animal Farm.' I got a biog kick out of an evil character named Snowball. But a cute pet would be great with that name.

{Snowball would not have to be a dachshund. )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOqZNCrqME

We are all evil. But some of us are more evil than others(?)

I'm not really bad. I'm just drawn that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Rabbit

"The short one is Napoleon" stereo-typing

Not every small "person" is a dictator but! Most are My day will come!

I understand Napoleon has a lot of attitude for a tiny dog.

"Napoleon's a pastry
Bismarck is a herring
Alexander's a crème de cacao mixed with rum
And Herbie Hoover is a vacuum

Columbus is a circle and a day off
Pershing is a square, what a pay-off
Julius Caesar is just a salad on a shelf
So, little brother, get wise to yourself"

--Yip Harburg

You gotta like Yip Harburg. Who else could write 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' and 'Over the Rainbow', and still end up on a Peter, Paul, and Mary album.

His "Rhymes for the irreverent" is still relevant.

"Should I write my Congressman?"
"Each congressman has got two ends:
A sitting and a thinking end,
And since his whole success depends
Upon his seat, why bother, friend?"

I'm getting away from the main topic, though.