Haahahahaa! Karen this is SO funny. I'm bursting into laughter reading these posts again, and remembering writing and reading them at the time. Well done! And my favourite part about Martha Stewart dropping in with her dish towel parachute!!! WAY too funny!

Good job Karen! I tried to search for the very first segment, but it must be bumped off the site now. So this is only the story of Gomer and Margie, which have had quite the adventures of their own.

The biggest problem many people have with understanding dogs is they simply insist on maintaining dogs have human characteristics. They actually believe dogs have some of the same atributes and skills that humans have. Dogs can learn amazing things. Now and then there arises an amazing dog---my son/DIL had one of those amazing dogs. He would sit and listen to you explain something, nodding at correct maments and wagging his tail appropriately. People swore he could understand English. Not so, he simply picked up on facial movements and body cues----what was said had not impact---I could speak gibberish and he responded the same way. Dogs react to very sublte body movements/voice inflections/posture---because their instinct tells them to do that with other dogs---that is their basic communication. Dogs simply have learned to transfer the same basic signs fom dogs to humans. I raised/trained horses for 20 years---I have heard stories of how horses could do amazing things---think like people/etc. Horses could learn---but they could not reason. I believe dogs can be changed much faster than most other domesticated animals---breed standards have changed for some in thirty years. That applies to cognative abilities as well. The average stray/loose dog today does often look both ways when crossing a street. That is not reasoning---it is selective instinct. Counrty dogs do not do that. Did you know city squirrels run across an open area differently than country squirrels? City squirrels run a more straight line---while country cousins run zig zag lines. Reason---selective breeding instincts---the squirrels in the city do not have hawks/foxes as preditors---requiring a zig zag path to evade capture. The straight runners do not get hit by cars as much. The current issue of National Geographic has an article about Darwins discoveries and the things scientists have learned about natural selection since his theory was published.

Egg at the audience. Unfortunately the egg hit Judge Judy who wasn't amused. The Galloping Gourmet denied throwing the egg, so after some investigation Judge Judy decided to prosecute the Galloping Gourmet. She called in Ty, Martha Stewart, Joan, Ellen, Maude, Conan, The Rifleman, Mr. Ed, Frasier, Red Skelton, Ugly Betty and Archie Bunker to tesify against The Galloping Gourmet. Nancy Grace was the only commentator allowed in the courtroom. All He$$ broke lose when Maude took the stand, she...