Woof, in Dogspeak, also happens to mean goodbye. And what's for dinner? Not to mention Iraq's looking like a dog's breakfast, hey? And, frankly, everything else in the human vocabulary. Dogspeak is a very easy language to learn. No gender agreement between nouns and adjectives, no subjunctive, no dangling participles. Not even a clause. Or an adjective. Or even a noun.
I highly recommend Dogspeak as a second language. It's international. Get off a plane in Paris, walk up to the nearest poodle and say Woof. He - or, indeed, she - will immediately agree with you that the country has taken a hard right turn.
Email me for details of my exclusive one-on-one classes in Dogspeak. All for the price of a brisket bone.
But I digress.
Over the past month or so, something should have dawned on keen followers of this blog. Which is to say, I haven't been troubling the ether with many posts. Equally keen disciples of the Comments section of this blog will be aware that the little white rat initiated legal action against me - in the form of an injunction preventing me from posting - on the basis that I had defamed her by comparing her with Barbra Streisand.
Off to court we went. I represented myself, adopting the traditional - if you're English, as I am - barrister's head apparel in the form of a wig:
Shame I washed it the night before.And Barbra? She didn't even turn up. She forgot to set the alarm:
I've always said she does her best work on her back.Cupping my oversized paw to my oversized ear, do I hear another defamation action trotting up the garden path?
Be that as it may, I am delighted to report here that I triumphed in court.
Barbra had engaged Perry Mason to argue her case. I immediately jumped to my hind legs and objected on the obvious grounds that Mr Mason is a fictional character. Of course the Judge agreed with me.
Hence here I am posting again.
Woof.
That's Dogspeak for I think it's aperitivo-o'clock.
