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Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Alex's friends felt for him after Annabelle dumped him. They really did. And they were glad that he'd found someone to keep him company. But when he started knitting his new gal sweaters and taking her to discos where he got her drunk and let her stick her tongue in his ear...well...let's just say it made some people uncomfortable.
Posted by Kimberly on February 13, 2006 | Permalink
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Is this the Westminster edition of Threadbared?
That guy is definitely up to something. He looks furtive, to the extent it's possible to be furtive dressed in argyle.
Posted by: Marcia | Feb 13, 2006 4:52:35 PM
ludmilla loved the new sweater her twin brother alex brought her 4 valentines day...
Posted by: D34dPuPpY | Feb 13, 2006 6:13:05 PM
That makes me uncomfortable in ways I didn't know existed.
Posted by: Bridget | Feb 13, 2006 6:18:43 PM
The picture alone qualifies for pop spitting.
He does indeed ooks furtive, maybe he's plotting Lady Galt's demise? Or maybe the dog is Lady Galt.
Posted by: SageHen | Feb 13, 2006 9:11:07 PM
This set has "lives with his mom" written all over it.
Or maybe just taped on the back.
Posted by: severina | Feb 13, 2006 10:23:16 PM
apparently even after the split with Annabelle, Alex still can't get any tail!
Posted by: Kathryn | Feb 14, 2006 2:16:33 AM
Why does the smarter looking one one wearing a collar with a leash attached to it?
Posted by: Brent | Feb 14, 2006 3:22:33 AM
Oh that is so wrong on so many levels.
Posted by: kaz | Feb 14, 2006 6:55:59 AM
what a disappointing photo... when it was slowly appearing on my screen, i thought..., "holy cow, a geeky man with a nude lady on all 4s in a geeky sweater" but no...
it's a dog. but for just a moment, when all i saw was the top, i thought he snagged a babe. i'm sure it's the story of his life.
Posted by: IHateToast | Feb 14, 2006 7:46:06 AM
~~gigggle, poor kid needs to get a life.
Posted by: Vanda | Feb 14, 2006 9:04:42 AM
Who in the world came up with this picture? OMG, this has to be the scariest one I've seen so far!! Keep up the good work!!
Posted by: Annie | Feb 14, 2006 9:21:43 AM
Bat Masterson high on argyle!! He don't walk no dogs...(er, ah, yes he does!)
Posted by: tulip | Feb 14, 2006 9:23:42 AM
Just look at the repressed anger in his curled up fists!
YIPES! yes, totally, Bat Masterson!
Posted by: toiletpaper | Feb 14, 2006 9:41:34 AM
There are too many lessons here to list, but to start:
Never agree to perform in an Andy Warhol film.
Never bring your pet to a love in.
Argyle is not appropriate for undercover international espionage.
Just say no to knitting and LSD.
Posted by: Ashphalt | Feb 14, 2006 9:57:15 AM
You are exploring the area around the Jupiter 2 on a planet where you have just landed when you come across Dr. Smith and his alien paramour. Your first instinct is to yell, "DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON", but something about the angular diamonds on his chest is strangely hypnotic. You know it does not compute, but even so, you find yourself happily humming a tune from Mary Poppins and cleaning up the entire planet with your green diamond shaped feather duster.
Posted by: beastarzmom | Feb 14, 2006 11:57:18 AM
I want the action doll that looks more lifelike than he does! the one with posable arms!
Posted by: Kathryn | Feb 14, 2006 2:13:08 PM
He looks like a strange hybrid of Roger Moore and George Lazenby. Don't know what to read into that as there's no way a scene like this would have ever appeared in a Bond film!
Posted by: catcat1 | Feb 14, 2006 4:27:14 PM
Why does the dog have its tail tucked firmly between its legs? I'm just wonderin...
Posted by: Earl | Feb 14, 2006 4:49:32 PM
my god. where is the leash coming from? i see the part that attaches to the collar, but beyond that...it looks like it's going somewhere a leash is not normally found.
however, this is Argyle Man.
another one of life's mysteries.
Posted by: krystin | Feb 14, 2006 6:45:19 PM
oh duh.
color me blonde.
but you can see my point.
if you don't look too closely
Posted by: | Feb 14, 2006 6:46:06 PM
WTF?! First of all, y'all since when is a tight pattern like that easy and fun to knit?! I'd need shock therapy if I tried. Secondly, on what 1960's mod planet does that green dimond back drop and floor coordinate with such a conservative sweater set? History is funny when seen from afar. I wonder what will be funny in our days in future decades? Skinny white boy rap?
Posted by: Shelley Noble | Feb 14, 2006 8:30:00 PM
Earl, he's ashamed. Yes, I think that's a he-dog. Not sure, though.
Posted by: jfasoga | Feb 14, 2006 9:02:44 PM
...Yeahhh, I did it baby....
Posted by: G | Feb 15, 2006 1:26:42 AM
Good point! It does give a whole new meaning to "shagging."
Posted by: Ashphalt | Feb 15, 2006 9:40:24 AM
Woh. That sweater was definitely not designed for an Afghan Hound. But then, that sweater shouldn't be designed for any dog. Poor puppy.
Posted by: Lilith | Feb 15, 2006 11:23:01 AM
Okay, I've been thinking about it and I know what this is now. It's Mr. Rogers' DATING sweater.
Posted by: Marcia | Feb 15, 2006 4:51:35 PM
Maybe if he helped her shave her legs they'd stop staring at them in the disco...
Posted by: Martin | Feb 15, 2006 10:09:18 PM
Is he the host of the doggie dating game?
Posted by: Essie | Mar 18, 2006 1:35:26 PM
Isn't that Roddy McDowall?
Posted by: janeinane | Apr 3, 2007 1:09:10 PM
Woman behind camera: "Honey, please humor me on this one. Great Aunt Gertie spent all summer knitting these matching sweaters for you and Fluffy. You know how that bothers her arthritic fingers. The least we can do is send her a picture. When we get done with this, we have to take Percy to the groomer's. Then we can...."
Husband: "Grrrrrr....#$**!!! Yeah, go shopping! Grrrrr!"
Fluffy: "GRRRRRRRR! Why does he put up with this woman, who makes us dress like this? If he'd only walk me where I want to walk, I'd show him where the groovy chicks are!"
Posted by: bon | Aug 25, 2007 7:29:34 AM
Follow-up to above: Fluffy loved Percy Poodle. Expelled from obedience school for biting the instructor, Percy really felt sorry for his henpecked master. Not only did he refuse to be in the picture, he shredded his sweater, then he peed on his mistress' camera! Unfortunately, she had already gotten the roll of film out of it.
Posted by: | Aug 25, 2007 7:44:37 AM
24% of Americans believe that the Internet is able for a time to replace them with a loved one. For obvious reasons, such sentiments particularly prevalent among residents of the United States alone. Both men and women can replace the beloved, beloved trips to the World Network. However, the willingness to such transactions vary among followers of different ideologies: conservatives frowned relate to this idea, and the "progressive-minded" on the contrary, Nerkarat it.
Study company Zogby International also showed that every fourth resident of the United States have their own representation in the web-site or internet-stranichka. Creating internet-dvoynikov most passionate about young people (18-24 years of age) - 78% of them have personal Web page. In doing so, 68% of those surveyed said that the World Wide Web, they do not appear in its original capacity, their virtual overnight seriously different from the real.
Only 11% of Americans would agree implantable microchip in his brain, which would provide them with direct contact with the Internet. But the situation is changing, in the case of children. Almost every fifth resident of the United States would agree to equip their child safety device which would allow him to track the movement in space on the Internet.
10% of U.S. stated that the Internet brings them to God. " In turn, 6% are convinced that because of the existence of the World Wide Web God away from them.
And how you feel? Sorry bad English.
Posted by: Zeratulss | Nov 12, 2007 6:06:29 PM
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.
Posted by: SubcottAutozy | Nov 16, 2007 12:58:36 AM
what is the fluffy mass at the bottom?? a llama or a genetically altered dog???
the world may never know.....
Posted by: FREAKED OUT | Mar 9, 2008 7:59:06 PM
