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When is it proper to invite the family pooch to social events?
It's difficult to know proper etiquette all the time.
Is it proper to invite the dog or not?
A story of the DOs and DON'Ts of when to invite the pooch and of people so attached to their pets, they can't bear to leave home without them.
IT was a dark and stormy night — actually four stormy nights — when Jayme Otto, 31, and her husband, Ryan Otto, 33, drove 1,200 miles from their home in Boulder, Colo., to her parents’ house in Cleveland for Christmas.
“We traveled all this way to bring our yellow Labrador, Cody Bear, home to spend time with his grandparents,” Ms. Otto said, “grandparents” being dog-person-speak for her parents.
Besides wanting Cody Bear “to participate in his favorite yearly activity of unwrapping gifts and destroying all the boxes,” as Ms. Otto put it, they wanted the dog to meet her brother’s fiancée.
Read rest of story:
Who Invited the Dog?
No matter what the author of the story decides, we advise leaving the pup at home for a serious dinner party.
Kinda screws up the boy-girl-boy-girl seating arrangement.
by Mondoreb
[image:nytimes]
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
About the recent Barak Hussein Obama flag flap:
I thought I would point out this piece of flag information to those people that think that this particular style of American flag is "pretty" (which I've heard on more than one occasion). Might want to re-think that position.
From "Get that Gold Fringe Off My Flag!" at AFPN
GOLD FRINGED FLAG
The flags displayed in State courts and courts of the United States have gold or yellow fringes. That is your WARNING that you are entering into a foreign enclave, the same as if you are stepping into a foreign embassy and you will be under the jurisdiction of that flag. The flag with the gold or yellow fringe has no constitution, no laws, and no rules of court, and is not recognized by any nation on the earth, and is foreign to you and the United States of America.
How much do you think you know about the American flag and its rules and etiquette? Check out the rest of the article, "Get That Gold Fringe Off My Flag!" and find out.
From U.S. Flag.org, "What Do the Flag's Colors Mean?"
Fringe is used on indoor flags only, as fringe on flags on outdoor flags would deteriorate rapidly. The fringe on a Flag is considered and 'honorable enrichment only', and its official use by the US Army dates from 1895.. A 1925 Attorney General's Opinion states: 'the fringe does not appear to be regarded as an integral part of the Flag, and its presence cannot be said to constitute an unauthorized addition to the design prescribed by statute. An external fringe is to be distinguished from letters, words, or emblematic designs printed or superimposed upon the body of the flag itself. Under law, such additions might be open to objection as unauthorized; but the same is not necessarily true of the fringe.'"
So which view do you have? Have you even thought about it? Chances are, you probably haven't, but this little article might cause you to.
In an age where too many people sit in front of a PlayStation or the TV, thinking about anything is never a bad thing.
by RidesAPaleHorse
notes by: Mondoreb
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
