“Dogs” is not the magic word I was thinking of*, but OK.
Sample size:n = 3 (2 humans and a dog)
Recruitment strategy: convenience sampling of a household in inner suburban Melbourne
Analysis methodology**: comparison of major observable features between the residents of the sampled household.
You owe me some peanut butter when we meet.
[size=85]*I made up the magic word I was thinking of, so it’s not surprising you chose another. In fact, I’m kind of glad you did: for you to know a magic word that I’d invented but not shared would have disturbed me far more than even vic-k, wock, Mr X and the pigmeister combined.
**I thought about comparing myself to census data, but in order to get the means and standard deviations in order to make meaningful interpretations (the Australian Bureau of Statistics only publish medians) I’d have to download the source data and run the analyses myself. Fun, but I procrastinate enough here at night as it is - if I’m going to start running statistical analyses on ABS population data, I may as do it in the daytime for work.
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Here’s some alternatives in language more appropriate for these parts…
**Arghh me Yellow Jack, shrouds are squiffy so grapple smartly with Sea Legs piracy. Loot ‘n pressgang chandler, heave to plunder nipperkin bucko log. Haul the yards or face me gibbet smartly to the gunwalls nipperkin. Gaff t’ topgallant crimp aft lass. Scurvy bilge rat!
You will have to wrestle the other puppies for the peanut butter. They are excited to have a new playmate. They sent you a picture. I will warn you that they take their peanut butter seriously…
“They let him…”? Took me a moment to catch onto your wife’s sense of humour. They don’t look like the kind of dogs that “allow” trouble, they look like they’re out there hunting it down so you can join in the fun. I know their type.
Mine are useless lumps of flesh. They don’t fetch. They don’t keep people away. But they do droll, bark, generate poo, and push you out of bed at night.
Yours look like they can be used to produce a sweater.
Sorry? What was that again?
