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Subject: Re: [OM] Ten
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:07 -0500
When I was in high school I worked in a pet shop that specialized in 
poodles and we sold poodle puppies.  Occasionally I was charged with 
walking the dogs for a bit of exercise.  I can certify that poodle 
puppies work well also.  Apricot poodles in particular. :-)

Chuck Norcutt


On 12/20/2011 7:20 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Wonderful TV commercial last year I think. Can't recall what it was
> for, but there was a rental booth in a park where guys rented puppies
> to then take forth to attract the babes. Worked amazingly well. Of
> course, it was a commercial.<g>  Last frame was a long shot of the
> booth with guys lined up and the voiceover: "Get the Lab." I find
> that even with my 10-year-old Lab at my side, women just can't seem
> to help veering off course to speak to the dog. Some of them even say
> "Hi" to me.<g>
>
> Babies work pretty well, too. I was in a bookshop with my cousin and
> her little one years ago when my cousin went to the counter to get
> cookies and left me with the babe in basket. Within about half a
> moment a lovely woman very much not too young for me was cooing and
> making faces at the child. My cousin returned, saw this happening,
> and raised an eyebrow at me as if to say, "Should I go browse?"
>
> I would recommend Yellow Labs and Golden Retrievers for over-the-top
> cuteness quotient, and Huskies and Australian Shepherds (?) for the
> eyes.
>
> --Bob
>
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> Of course, all this pales against the real and simple attractant -
>> a puppy. Nothing works as well.
>
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