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If Only They Had Good Noses
I like humans pretty wellthey’re nicer than I used to think.Their hygiene though!They cannot tell,But some of those guys really stink. The worstest scents,which should be banned,they do on purposewith a can. -Chocolate Continue reading
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Being a good pet owner
If you have a humantake good care of him or herYou have to keep them nice and warmbecause they have no fur. We dogs must pay attentionor communications fail;I think it’s ’cause their ears are flat and they’ve no handy tail. But all the trouble’s worth itIf you keep one as a pet.I myself have… Continue reading
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September 18
Corn is quite the important grain. It’s “maize,” really, and it came from southern Mexico, where it was cultivated over 10,000 years ago. Even the word “maize” comes from what the indigenous Taino called it: “mahiz.” It’s called “corn” in English because the word already existed, meaning a small, hard particle like a grain of… Continue reading
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September 17
It’s kind of amazing that today, September 17, isn’t more widely commemorated as the day Norton I, Emperor of the United States, was crowned. As emperor of the egalitarian USA, it makes perfect sense that Norton I started life as a commoner. He was born Joshua Abraham Norton in England in 1818. Or sometime between… Continue reading
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A noggin of noggins
The word “noggin” has a longer history than you might expect for a slang term for your head. When the word is used today, it’s used the way it appeared in Landfall in 1951: “Thanks, chum,’ said Vic, ‘You used your noggin.’” Roald Dahl used it, too, in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: “Of… Continue reading
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H.A. Rey
You might remember, from your childhood, an impish monkey named Curious George. He and his companion, The Man with the Yellow Hat, were born today. Well, sort of. Actually Hans Augusto Reyersbach, who was H.A. Rey, one of the authors, was born September 16, 1898 in Hamburg. Reyersbach and his wife Margret (who was Margret… Continue reading
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September 16 September 16
This is it. September 16. The very day that, in 1959, the first successful photocopier was introduced. This is it. September 16. The very day that, in 1959, the first successful photocopier was introduced. This is it. September 16. The very day that, in 1959, the first successful photocopier was introduced. It was the Xerox… Continue reading
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The dog optimist
Hayley just eats when she’s hungry.She says that she’ll wait for a while.I’m always ready for a treat or a snackAnd either one makes me smile. When I was a pupThere were bad folks aroundAnd I learned right awayI should eat what I found But Hayley has nevermet anyone meanAnd she doesn’t believeWhen I say… Continue reading
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Egalitarianism
Hayley and I,We like things to be fairLike the number of treatsAnd whose turn for the chair. When our family brings usNew toys from the store We check to be sureThat neither gets more But one thing they miss, (Though it’s only their fate):Some toys smell okayWhile others smell great! So that is one spotOf an overlap,… Continue reading
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Sorry, not sorry
I like my gamesto be the same.I always returnthe way I came. This frees my mindto contemplatephilosophiesin aggregate. Annoyance whenthings deviatecan turn my actionsreprobate. I do not meanto be the bearerof bad dogness;it’s just my terror coming outwhen things surprise —so in advance:I apologize. -Chocolate Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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