pete_d: Actually, ‘Alf dog’ sounds like a great comic strip idea.
mircea_popescu: It does! This dog that read everything back in kindergarten…asciilifeform: Actually my first thought, reading the log, is that it’d be something like a lathe dog.
mircea_popescu: Running dog of the ba cultists! Thrice cussed.
In other news, Oglaf has nothing to worry about.
For non-metalworking folks, ‘lathe dog’ exists! (though it is actually the name of the dark-coloured object immediately behind the blade of the file in this picture.)
“Woof once if you agree and twice if you disagree.”
“Woof! Woof!”
“You agree twice! Wonderful!”
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