He'd been out all night carousing, and then he would come home to a respectable family, and the family would pat the dog on the head, and the family would say what a nice dog Rover is.

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So it is hard to see what the problem is beyond a dog-in-the-mangerish desire not to give anything away.

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Because it is now what has been the tail that whatever it is now, it is certainly waggin' the dog.

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What the dog at the White House did Thursday is called passive indication -- sitting.

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But what many people fail to consider is that the dog might transform the quality of their time.

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