Word: dalmatian
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...through the canine justice system: best of breed, best of group, best-in-show. Pa was one of the favorites, having defeated 93,725 other dogs in shows last year. But no standard schnauzer had ever won Westminster, and included among the seven finalists was one--just one--Dalmatian that had beaten Pa before: Ch. Spotlight's Spectacular. "Pa's the best dog I've ever seen," Roy Holloway said after he won best in breed, "but you just have to hope the judge feels the same...
Enter Cruella, branch manager of Pure Joy Toy, wearing a gray cashmere business suit accessorized with a tasteful black riding crop. "Good news, children!" she announces in a voice that lets you know she's had her usual breakfast of boiled bunnies and Dalmatian pups. "Thanks to the upsurge of consumer confidence this Christmas season, I'm able to offer you unlimited forced overtime right through Christmas Eve! And to make it easier for you to focus on the task at hand, all exits and rest rooms will be locked for the duration!" As she leaves, we hear locks clanking...
...people who have the credentials to insult the Dalmatian for its own good are, of course, the very breeders who have spent their lives presenting it as the noblest of canines. It's as if the teenagers who have been standing in a two-mile ticket line for a Foo Fighters concert started buttonholing passing reporters to warn that grunge can lead to poor study habits and might even be a bridge addiction to the music of Lawrence Welk. In a typical radio interview I heard, one authority was going on about how demanding Dalmatians are, and how much hair...
...suppose it's possible that Disney and the Dalmatian industry are cooperating in a piggyback promotion scheme designed to have both of their products discussed incessantly. Still, it is a little odd that people being interviewed with beautiful Dalmatians at their feet are so insistent that the average person is not up to coping with a Dalmatian...
...step selling strategy in which the customer is tantalized by such warnings and then smitten by the puppies in the movie? It's a strategy I must resist. I'm not in dire need of a dog right now. There seems to be no way to escape the anti-Dalmatian media blitz, but I am going to skip the movie. Just in case...