TQOTD: Miscellaneous

[pat]

If you owned a Komondor, what would you have?



You would own a large white dog with dreadlocks. The Komondor, like its smaller cousin the Puli, originated in Hungary and was used as a sheepdog, and is covered in long "cords". (The Komondor is not, however, the dog used in the Budweiser "Rastafarian dog" commercial -- that's a Puli. Komondors are larger -- males can be over eighty pounds -- and white.) It looks something like a walking rag mop, and wins my personal award for coolest looking dog on the planet. The cords start forming around eight to twelve monnths and continue to form for the rest of the dog's life.

Komondor Club of America (check out the link for a photo.)

Comments

Re: off-topic

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've had the name since I was fifteen or so -- about half my life now. One of the only people who ever recognized it was a three-year-old named Jacob (a different one than anyone on my livejournal list knows, I believe), who, upon hearing that I sometimes went by "Xiphias", said, "Xiphias! Xiphias Gladius! That means 'swordfish'! It starts with 'X'," in a tone of rising excitement, as if each revelation was more important than the previous, so that the most important thing about the word was that it, in fact, started with "x".

I was very impressed, as was my sister, who asked him, "Are you omniscient?" He replied, "What does that mean?" and my sister said, "Guess not."

We explained what omniscient meant, and he replied, "I'm half-nicient."

So, just so you know, there's someone out there, he must be ten or so by now, who knows half the things in the universe. So, if there's ever something you need to know, and you have no other way of discovering it, you can look him up and ask, and he's got an even chance of knowing it.

Re: off-topic

[bdot.livejournal.com]

i love running into kids like that. although they can be a pain in the butt in the classroom, they are still always great to be around. they help the adults around them get a new view of the world; and a new understanding as well. that is if the adults are willing, and able, to really listen to what the kids have to say!

Re: off-topic

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

And see, here I was assuming that it was just some dead Roman. Silly me : >

Re: off-topic

[bdot.livejournal.com]

this means something. i know it does. but, dammit, i don't know what it means!!!

was xanthias really a name of a roman of some great personage?