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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Horse Play

Like I said, the more universally recognized term is "horse play", but it has various local names in different subcultures. I seem to remember that my mother used to call it "rough housing". I only heard it called "grab ass" in the army, and the grabbing of asses is only one of the many behaviors associated with this activity. It's probably called "horse play" because young horses do it when they are horsing around. The young of other species also do it, lambs, puppies, and kittens immediately come to mind. It's cute when they do it, but not so cute when people do it.

The first dog I remember, a big collie/shepherd cross, wouldn't allow it, and we used to stage mock fights for his benefit because it was quite impressive to see him intervene. Laddie would first position himself between the combatants and lean on the one that he believed to be the aggressor, which was generally the larger child, or the male if one of the contestants was a female. If that didn't work, Laddie would take the aggressor's wrist in his mouth, gently at first, and try to lead him away. If the aggressor resisted, Laddie would gradually increase his jaw pressure on the guy's wrist until he complied. I suppose that, in the event of a real fight, Laddie would have done whatever he deemed necessary to defend the weaker party, but we never pushed it that far. Like I said, he was a big dog, about 90 pounds, and nobody wanted to see him get really upset.

I have known people in my life who didn't seem to distinguish between truth and falsehood, or fantasy and reality, it was all the same to them. If you catch them in a lie and call them on it, they don't seem to understand what you're talking about. Maybe that's Trump's problem. It sounds like Hillary is just being a politician. The reason  politicians do that stuff is because it works.

There are two locust tree species that I know of. They both have two rows of small leaves arranged opposite each other on long stems. The one with the long seed pods is the honey locust, and the one with the short seed pods is the black locust.

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