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The Origin of Dogs

Posted by michael on from the land-of-many-fire-hydrants dept.

nessdog writes "Your old friend in the back-yard can read you like an open book according to this article from the BBC. They report that your dog's power of reading your body language is better than a chimps. So next time you tell a lie, just remember who might be watching..."

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  1. The catch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure they can read you like an open book. But dogs can't read books! Aha!

  2. Does that mean.... by mattsucks · · Score: 3, Funny
    So next time you tell a lie, just remember who might be watching...
    Does this mean that instead of polygraphs, the police will soon begin using lab tests?

    Officer: Sir, did you rob the bank?
    You: Of course not.
    Lab: woof woof *
    Officer: Just as we thought, lying!

    * I have to go out and pee on your tires.

  3. Hmmmm by FungiSpunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any animal that sits down in front of your entire family on Xmas day, then cleans its own gentials with its tongue, is hardly screaming up the evolutionary ladder!

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    1. Re:Hmmmm by diesel_jackass · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh come on, you know you'd do it too--if you could only reach.

      My friend's dad (or my dad's friend depending on how you want to look at it) used to always ask us the rhetorical question:
      "Do you know why a dog licks his balls?"
      "No Fritz, why is that?" we'd say.
      "Because he can," he would reply.
      I think he's right too.

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    2. Re:Hmmmm by FungiSpunk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Damn! You already worked out one of my three wishes!

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  4. joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

    -Groucho Marx

  5. Re:3 canine Eves by RangerBob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hrm, I don't think that a wolf/poodle cross would fix hip dysplasia or anything. However, it might give you a dog that would bite your leg off and then start humping it ;)

  6. Re:The dog's watching... by great+om · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am i the only one getting a bush's baked beans vibe here?

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  7. Re:3 canine Eves by pyrote · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps we should cross that poodle with a rabbit?

    Rabbits can actually be pretty nasty. How about sheep?

    it's the big pointy teeth that get you every time...RUN AWAY!

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