OT: Typist Laid off, points finger at managment

> Yek! The minute mine start interfearing with sewing, they get chopped off! Huh! No wonder she's slim - she can't feed herself with that lot! ;)

Yek! The minute mine start interfearing with sewing, they get chopped > off!>

UffDa! Here's another article about her, she's from Utah

'm with you Kate, my nails aren't down to the quick but if I hear them clicking on the keyboard or they get in the way of sewing I lop them off. The first things that come to my mind when I looked at her was .......personal hygiene. Yecht :-P Val

I agree with you two, Kate and Val; long fingernails are definitely not hygienic, and not good for sewing and/or typing either. Besides, I would never be able to wear hose with long nails, too easy to snag them. I must wear diabetic hose from the time I get up till I go to bed, so no snags allowed. Emily

She must be a kept woman. Sort of like, how could a poodle survive in the wild.

Much less dress herself. How does she get those things through the sleeves?

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Ew. Yuck. That's just nasty.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Kathleen (Thank god this gal isn't blessed with a "long nosehair" gene")

And even worse than that, I read in the newspaper that she takes care of her husband who has Alzheimers!

Kirsten Sollie

> Yek! The minute mine start interfearing with sewing, they get chopped==20>> off!

Me too.....I just can't imagine eating, bathing, getting dressed....and especially using the bathroom with nails like that!=20

Irene

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Quite! And look at the hair...

Especially using the bathroom. Good grief.

--Karen D.

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I met a poodle today. Not a miniature. Nice dog. Don't think it could survive in the wild. Not sure I could either. Maybe I should get a poodle and we can both go wild. Maybe I should get a perm. Used to have one, long time ago. What the hell am I talking about. Good night.

Dunno about the little ones, but Standard Poodles are excellent hunters.

Don't know. Very alert dog though, and friendly.

Poodles are water dogs: they love swimming and have webbed toes. :)

I've never met a standard poodle I didn't like. Just don't torture the poor things with topiary, please.

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standard poodles are *very* intelligent dogs. that's why they're frequently used in animal acts. however, they are also domestic pets, so survival in the "wild" is iffy. that silly hairdo actually had a purpose originally though. poodles were hunting dogs, water retrievers. the short hair is for ease in swimming, the longer areas were to keep the chest & joints warmer. i have no idea who decided to leave the ball of fluff on the tail though ;) i have 2 dogs. one is a Great Pyranees x Border Collie. nice dog. dumber than a post. wouldn't survive an hour in the 'wild'. the other is a Malamute. too smart for his own good. stubborn (like most Mals) & strong. wouldn't surprise me if he went feral really easily. he'd just blend in with the local coyotes. lee

There a couple of standard poodles playing flyball in our region. Their coats are kept clipped uniformly short; there's nothing foofy about them

- they look like the curly haired athletes that they are.

If I recall correctly, miniature and toy poodles are the same line, differentiated only by size. Standards are genetically separate. I don't think any of them could survive in the wild, though. The coat would become matted leading to skin infections, and it also gets caught in brush.

When I was a teenager I spent a painful hour and a half freeing a neighbor's miniature poodle that had become horribly tangled in a hedge of wild roses. I had to cut my way through the thorns to even reach him and found that in thrashing around trying to escape he had wound the canes around himself. He was less than appreciative of my efforts to free him, and bit me hard several times for my trouble.

So, even in some post apocalyptic future I don't think we'd ever see roving packs of feral poodles taking down caribou on the tundra.

Kathleen

never met a boxer I didn't like. They are all sweet animals, to the last one it seems. We had two when I was growing up. I was visiting Ireland one time. I think we were on Aran Island. There was a small local kid playing around with a young english man in our group. Just goofing around, riding piggy back, etc. The boxer, which I guess was the kids, was getting very excited and upset, I guess trying to watch out for the youngster. it was a beautiful dog. A brindle color which I'd never seen before, but it was awesome.

The english bloke was getting a little unnerved by the boxers barking and over excitedness. I knew better than to be afraid. I said "this dog will do nothing too you. They are too sweet." I just sad down and started talking to the boxer. It kept barking, but its facial expression started changing, and became friendlier and more approachable, and finally let me pet it. The english bloke was a bit surprised, and just was not going to go close to it. They're all sweet dogs.

Yeah, but the miniature roses might face extinction, or be fed by poodle compost.