<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Last night the DH and I were watching stand-up comedians on the Comedy Channel. There was a fellow up whose name I do not recall--it was something like Ecklund? He did a bit about his family's dogs. I am not very good at embellishing jokes so I will probably destroy his routine, but in it was his basset hound, Duke.</DIV>
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<DIV>It went something like this: My wife has two weiner dogs. I don't much care for them. They love to eat, and eat and eat, and then go outside and deposit the remains of their meals. Every morning I have to go out and clean up the yard and it is a chore. Me--I have the absolute best dog in the world--Duke. Duke is a basset hound. You couldn't train a dog better than Duke. Duke eats, and then goes outside and poops and then he eats his poop. Totally self-sufficient, self-sustaining, green. God love a basset hound every time.</DIV></div><br>
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