News of the weird from (where else?) England:

Lots of unwanted dogs turn up at the doorstep of Britain’s biggest dog welfare charity. So do some odd excuses from the people who bring them in.

With the festive season closing in, Dogs Trust released Monday the Top 10 dubious reasons its staff has heard over the past year for dumping Fido at one of its shelters.

“My dog doesn’t match the sofa,” topped the list, followed by: “The dog looks evil and has different coloured eyes — just like David Bowie.”

Majel Barrett Roddenberry has passed away.  The First Lady of Star Trek has joined her husband.

http://roddenberry.com/

If you have the time, you may wish to preuse this completely arbitrary list of 100 greatest movie characters of all time, ever.  Like most of these lists, it’s skewed toward recent movies with a few scattered classics and contains strange redundancies. Yes, father and son from the Godfather, but both Marty McFly and Doc Brown? Aragorn and Gandalf and Gollum, too?  How many characters from Cohen brothers’ movies do you really need?  At least they only chose one James Bond. Kerry will appreciate number 42, Alvin should be happy with number 64 and who doesn’t wish their name was as cool as Maximus Decimus Meridius?  Bueller?  Bueller?  Anyhow, once you get into the top 10 or so, it’s hard to argue with the choices, as they’re mostly who you’d expect. If I were to OOA-ize this list, I’d add Maude, Alvy Singer and Buckaroo.  Just for a start. 

How could I have forgotten about this?  When I was young, I used to watch a Canadian TV show about a dog living life on the tracks.  It was called The Littlest Hobo.  It was like a Canadian Benji or something.  With the recent resurgence in popularity of hobos, maybe it’ll make a second comeback.

The OOA Cronicle says “Dang they old!”. 4 out of 5 mustache shakes!

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