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I appreciated your dogs’ nicknames 😂 My dog’s are: Coopdiggledoggle, the Coopdog, Cooperton Esquire McGee The Third, Coop Dedupe, Coopa Troopa, Coopacabra, Hornabob Thornton, Cooperbeast, and The Silliest of the Billies.
i'd like to share a word that we made up in our house, "snick" which was derived from "snicklet" which was picked up from a friend years ago. it is a campaign of mine to get snick into the vernacular of everyone i know.
the definition of the word depends on what kind of word you use it as.
noun - a being (human or dog in our house) that is mischievous but with good intentions, that pushes the envelope but isn't malicious. i.e. my dog trying 2x after i say no to her to sneak past me, and she's not very sneaky
verb - snicking - could be used to replace "fucking" in the biblical sense *or* could be used as "snicking around" which is when you are meandering around looking for some trouble or a salty snack.
"you're such a snick" "little snick" "what are you doing little snick?" "oh just snicking on these cheetohs" "wanna snick?"
During any large family dinner, if you ask someone "would you like a roll", someone at the table will say, "or are you just going to sit there" This has been going on since 1977....and is now going on to the third generation!
This is phenomenal. I've yelled "Look At That Big Old Butt" to my dog Doc so many times over the last year that he has started to respond to it. Nice to see the idea behind that spelled out.
I appreciated your dogs’ nicknames 😂 My dog’s are: Coopdiggledoggle, the Coopdog, Cooperton Esquire McGee The Third, Coop Dedupe, Coopa Troopa, Coopacabra, Hornabob Thornton, Cooperbeast, and The Silliest of the Billies.
this was truly a wonderful piece.
i'd like to share a word that we made up in our house, "snick" which was derived from "snicklet" which was picked up from a friend years ago. it is a campaign of mine to get snick into the vernacular of everyone i know.
the definition of the word depends on what kind of word you use it as.
noun - a being (human or dog in our house) that is mischievous but with good intentions, that pushes the envelope but isn't malicious. i.e. my dog trying 2x after i say no to her to sneak past me, and she's not very sneaky
verb - snicking - could be used to replace "fucking" in the biblical sense *or* could be used as "snicking around" which is when you are meandering around looking for some trouble or a salty snack.
"you're such a snick" "little snick" "what are you doing little snick?" "oh just snicking on these cheetohs" "wanna snick?"
During any large family dinner, if you ask someone "would you like a roll", someone at the table will say, "or are you just going to sit there" This has been going on since 1977....and is now going on to the third generation!
This is phenomenal. I've yelled "Look At That Big Old Butt" to my dog Doc so many times over the last year that he has started to respond to it. Nice to see the idea behind that spelled out.