All right, all right, I did it

[altivo]

*snicker* I really don't think so. I don't suffer from quite that level of ADHD, nor am I so athletic. St. Bernard would be more like it, I think.

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[hrrunka]

For some reason it thinks I'm a golden retriever...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, golden retrievers are among my very favorite breeds. ;D Very friendly with the sweetest of dispositions. Smart too, and not at all bad looking.

[hrrunka]

My grandparents had a number of labrador/retriever-type dogs while I was growing up. They made good farm dogs, most of the time, though they could never resist swimming in any patch of water they went near, nor rolling in anything "aromatic"...

I can't quite see the "Journalist, Intelligence Agent, Venture Capitalist" side dogster's cooked up, mind. Perhaps they've mis-named the quiz, and it should be "What breed aren't you?" ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yep. Getting wet is heaven to a retriever. We've had three golens over the years, all sweethearts but the real gem of the three was an oversized lunk. I bought him a kiddie play pool so he'd have clean water to play in, and in hot summer weather he would just lie in it like a crocodile, with his nose hanging over the edge.

Woofen ze Duetsch

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

Strangely fitting, since I've been told I have some German ancestry :P

You have ADHD? No wonder you answer my comments so quickly :P

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No ADHD here, quite the contrary.

I have a good chunk of German ancestry too, though about half of it is filtered through several generations in the American colonies followed by more generations in Canada. The other half is made up of folks who came to America in the 1700s and stayed here. Total percentage of German if you look back six to eight generations comes out to about 25%. Most of the rest is English and Scottish with one touch of Irish and a bit of French Canadian thrown in.

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how much, and it's very likely my ancestry will be somewhat shadowed in mystery :P My father's name (Boorom, yes, that's my last name) doesn't show up on any geneology website I've tried, and both my grandfathers died before I could ask them about it directly- though I doubt they'd have been much help anyway. My mother did a little checking up on it once, but I'll have to speak with her before I can answer for that. All I know is, there's a German background :P

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Boorom looks like a Dutch spelling to me. I'll bet the original is spelled differently in German. I have some ancestral lines like that, folks who didn't speak much English when they arrived or weren't literate enough to give the correct spellings. One of them finally ended up as "Dibean" but now I know it used to be "du Bien" (French.) Another was some Irish folks who couldn't read or write so their name was spelled differently every time it got written down: Carberry, Carbery, Corbury, Carbury, Corbry.

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

No doubt you are on the right track there... I talked with my mother and she told me that both my family lines (father: Boorom, mother: Lowe) have German ancestry. That was all she knew about it though. No doubt my mother's family name will be easier to trace >_>

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I tried putting just "Boorom" into Google and on the first page were several hits on genealogical sites, including several that are specializing in the various spellings of the name, such as "Boerum" and "Boram".

Re: Woofen ze Duetsch

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

*Looks bemused* Sounds like some of the mispronunciations my name used to get in school from the teachers ^_^

I've heard:
Booroom
Broom
Brom
Boron (I'm an element? WTF?!?)

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Okay this is a scam. Fortunetly I gave my OTHER email
addy.

I'm a Jack Russel too?

God no, I don't chase rats into barns.

I turn on the lights and let the AI kill them with
the high powered gas laser thats pumped through
fiber optics.

C'mon man, get it right, thats at least
a German Shepard!

XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Scam? I got a brief message urging me to send the meme on to other people, and deleted it.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I thought Labrador would be a better match
(Going through all the posts I missed)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nah, labs are too bouncy and energetic. Think laid back like a St. Bernard or else intensely focused like a Border Collie.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

How about a English sheep dog?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

English sheep dog might do, except the ones I've known just haven't been very bright.