slow-dog.name

I keep this story up for completeness, but the story sucks in print.

Here's the short version:

I once was trying to say something else, and I ended up saying "I never pick up slow-dog" where the was really more just a slight aspiration that sort of sounded like "a" or "the". We speculated long and hard and came up with several possible meanings for this, but my attempts to bring it into the vernacular have not been successful--yet.

Here's the long boring version:

Why slow-dog? Well, mainly, because somebody had already taken slowdog. By all indications, this person is dull. I think the thing that tipped me off was that he created a logo for his page which actually included a dog. Now maybe he's a nice guy, so I'll let you make up your own mind.

This page is 100% guaranteed to have no cutesy dog logo or really much discussion at all of dogs. Oh yeah....so slow-dog. Well it all recalls a wonderful moment of a wonderful trip to Nashville, TN for Thanksgiving. You see, I was driving along with friends Stett and Schnitz who I had convinced to meet me in Nashville (none of us living there, or knowing why we were there for Thanksgiving, but nevertheless there). Anyway, I was about to make a left hand turn across traffic when one of them was kind enough to point out that the car I was waiting to avoid had a car straggling behind it in the far lane, and that I was about to ram right into said car. So I stopped short, averting certain disaster. In an attempt at explanation as to why I apparently had a blind spot right ahead of me, I said "Yeah, I never pick up the slow dog." What I meant to say is lost in the annals of time. You can see, though, that if you try and interpret this phrase in that context, you find all sorts of meanings, and extending that, you can create your own uses for it. Use it, live it, love it.