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2010-04-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 The restaurant, which displays a "guide dogs welcome" sign

Boggle. Seems like a useless sign to me. Unless it's in braille.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-26 00:34|| 2010-04-26 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I love this story.

However, I think it's just possible that the gayness of the dog was not the issue, but the dogness of the dog. You do not let ordinary non-guide dogs, gay or otherwise, into restaurants, and this may have been the actual problem.

If you say "guide dog" in an Australian accent, you may understand the waiter's confusion. (I did wonder what kind of accent this woman had, but I confess that the possibility that the waiter did not have a firm grasp of English did not occur to me.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-04-26 00:45|| 2010-04-26 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 What do you expect from upside-down people?

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-04-26 00:49|| 2010-04-26 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 This looks like a job for Big Gay Al, you silly goose.

Posted by Throper Forkbeard7372 2010-04-26 01:04|| 2010-04-26 01:04|| Front Page Top

#5 "ay" in non-Aussie English is pronounced like "eye", so "gay" would be pronounced "guy." I'm guessing when the dog was described as a guidedog, it sounded like "guy dog", or Aussie for "gay dog."

NTTAWWT. Or intelligent about that, either.

Posted by lex 2010-04-26 01:34|| 2010-04-26 01:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I can see how someone with a Sydney accent saying 'guide dog' could be heard as 'gay dog'.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-26 07:21|| 2010-04-26 07:21|| Front Page Top

#7 My little Mountain Cur is an inveterate leg humper. I can't take him into restaurants.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-26 18:22|| 2010-04-26 18:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe he could go into restaurants in France.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-26 18:22|| 2010-04-26 18:22|| Front Page Top

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