Animal Insting: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD Trailer 2010

Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the nightmares of a new generation in the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake of the popular '80s horror classic.

"... a group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another, but when they sleep, there is no escape."

I spent my childhood seeing Krueger movies \o/
Hey girl... you have a date in 2010!!

18 funny street signs

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The Goth Daughters of the Prime Minister

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Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family.

According to Zapatero, Spanish law allows him to prevent the Spanish media from running any photographs of his 16 and 13-year-old daughters Laura and Alba. For their privacy, see. And because maybe it would be considered weird for the PM to have goth daughters.

But Barack Obama don't care. He's always a funny guy =D

Mom and Her Plants

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First of all, I will tell you that Mom is finally feeling better, which means she's not so grumpy like she was for a while. Her throat doesn't hurt anymore, but she still coughs and blows her nose and does stuff like that. Also she uses any excuse she can to take a nap. If she were a dog, she wouldn't need an excuse in order to take a nap. It must be hard being a human!

Anyway, what I wanted to tell you about Mom is that she has a whole bunch of plants that she keeps around sort of like pets, except they aren't as interesting as dogs or cats are. But the good part is they don't have to be fed as much as dogs or cats do. I don't know why she has these plants. They aren't cuddly and entertaining like dogs are, but she insists on keeping them anyway.

Most of Mom's plants are what are called "succulent" plants. This means they suck up water and they store it someplace inside themselves, sort of like a camel stores water in its hump. At least that's what I heard about camels, so I guess it's true. Anyway, a plant can store water in its leaves or in its stem or in its roots, but not in its ears, for example, because plants don't have ears!

Mom used to have a bunch of cactus plants, but they didn't grow too well at our house because we have too much shade due to our huge oak tree. Also cactus plants are full of spines and they are generally not very friendly plants. So now Mom has mostly other types of succulent plants because they are not always dying like the cactus plants did. Well, sometimes they die, but when that happens, Mom just gets another different plant and tries to see if she can make it grow instead.

So the point of all this is that Mom has all these plants, like over a hundred, and in the summer, they like to sit outside on the patio where the grasshoppers can chew on them, and they can get rained on. But in the winter, they have to come back inside so they won't freeze to death. Well, now that it's officially autumn, the weather is getting colder, and it's time for the plants to come inside the house. Except that Mom has been sick, so she didn't feel like carrying them all inside, which takes a long time because she has to try to clean them up and get the spiders and acorns and stuff off them. But yesterday she really did feel like doing that, so she brought in maybe half the plants. Today she is going to bring in the rest of them. Or at least that's what she says.

It's fun for us dogs when Mom is bringing in the plants because she leaves the door open, and we can go out or come in or stay out or whatever we want to do. I even did some sunbathing, which I am not supposed to do because I might get cancer. And we all fence-fought with Henry, and Mom didn't make us come inside because she was busy bringing plants in. So Henry's mom had to come out and make him go inside instead.

Well, that's about all I have to say about Mom's plants. I like it better when the plants are outside because when they are inside, they sort of block our view out the windows. We like to watch the squirrels in the backyard, and it's hard when there are plants in the way. Mom always leaves a little space for us to sit by the window, though, and it's right where the heat vent is, so that makes it a good place to sit. Mom is really pretty smart sometimes, I mean when it comes to knowing how to make dogs happy!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

10 pictures of toast art

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Apple - half red, half green (4u)

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Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle.

The fruit's striking colouring is thought to be caused by a random genetic mutation at odds of more than a million to one.

The apple has caused such a stir in the village of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, that Mr Morrish is inundated with neighbours queuing up to take pictures of it.

Mr Morrish, 72, who has been harvesting the apples from trees in his garden for 45 years, said: "It's truly amazing. It looks as if a green apple and a red apple has been cut in half and stuck together."

Experts believe that the odds of finding an apple with such a perfect line between the green and the red are more than a million to one.

In such cases, the red side usually tastes sweeter than the green side – because it has seen more sunshine during its growth.

The Dog in the Manger

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Here's a really old story that you might have heard before, but it's short, so I will tell it to you again. There was this dog, see, and he went in a barn and got up in the manger, which is what cows and horses eat out of, so it's sort of like a dog dish for cows. Anyway, the manger was full of hay, which made it an excellent bed for the dog because hay is soft and it smells good, too.

So the dog took a nice nap, and while he was sleeping, an ox came along and wanted to eat some hay. (An ox, in case you don't know, is a bull who had a certain kind of surgery so he wouldn't be flirting with all the cows when he was really supposed to be pulling wagons and doing other work like that.) But the dog, who was rudely awakened from his nice nap, snarked at the ox and wouldn't let him eat any hay.

That's it. That's the whole story. Except it's not really called a "story." It's called a "fable," which means it is supposed to teach you a lesson. And here's the exact lesson you are supposed to learn from this fable:

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Now I am going to tell you what is wrong with this interpretation of this story because I think the dog is not really the bad guy, even though people always say he is.

First of all, the ox was all wrong to wake the dog up like that when he was sleeping. Didn't this ox ever hear of the Canine Law of "Let sleeping dogs lie"? Many dogs don't enjoy being awakened like this, and they snap at whoever woke them up. The ox could have been much nicer and more polite about waking the dog up, and then the dog might have been more willing to get out of the manger.

But the main point is that the moral of the story says that the dog was not enjoying the hay in the manger, even though he clearly was. Hay can be a nice bed as well as a nice meal for an ox, and this is a fact that the dog recognized right away. So he found a nice bed for himself and he was willing to defend his bed because he had been enjoying it a whole bunch. He was just doing what dogs do. They defend their territory. They don't defend stuff that they don't care about. I am a dog and I know this.

So who wrote this goofy fable story in the first place? We think it was a man named Aesop, who was Greek, and he lived a long, long time ago. Nobody really knows much about him, which is true of a lot of people that lived a long, long time ago. Mr. Aesop might have been a slave. And he might have died by being pushed off a cliff by an angry mob of people. In my opinion, it's more likely that he was attacked and eaten by dogs since he didn't write very nice stories about them!

Here's a picture of Mr. Aesop. As we can see from looking at it, he had a funny red hat. I like red hats, so maybe he wasn't all bad. I just don't think he understood dogs very well!

Strange Buddha Shaped Pears from China

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Chinese farmer Hao Xianzhang has perfected the process of growing pears inside Buddha shaped plastic molds.
Each pear shaped like Buddha costs around 50 yuan ($7.32 USD)

14 Strange and Unusual Shoes

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Collection of modern shoes and unusual shoe designs that will help you stand out of the crowd.

Zoe Heels
Wireframe Shoes
Origami Shoes
Gold Shoes
Glass Shoes
Toeless Shoes
Hoof Shoes
High Heel Sneakers
Hair Shoes
Futuristic Shoes
Metal Shoes
Nail Heels
Soleless Shoes
High Chair Shoes

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