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Columbus Short and Chris Evans co-star as two members of a five-man team that spend the movie kicking butt and taking names. Short plays Pooch, the laid-back, family man who acts as the team’s driver while Evans is Jensen, the smart-alec computer whiz...
...back on gifts for each other, so in just two years the number of spendthrift spouses has increased almost nine-fold. "This holiday season, parents are telling us that they still worry about job security, and they are desperately trying to cut down on debts," says Beemer. Even the pooch may be getting better treatment than Pops. In a separate Consumer Reports survey, 22% of women who expected to reduce their holiday spending said they would be cutting back on gifts for their spouse. Only 14% said they would cut back on gifts for their pets. Ruff. (Read...
...island of Sardinia, the surprise star was Totò, a pint-size, black-and-white, eight-month-old mixed-breed from Naples whom our friends brought along to a house we shared near the southern town of Pula. Totò - named for the famed Neapolitan comedian, not Dorothy's pooch - has exactly one trick in his repertoire: misbehaving. He swiped everything from pasta al pesto to a half-pound of butter off the kitchen table, ran around the yard with a neighbor's flip-flop between his teeth, and even left a summer-holiday gift on another neighbor's driveway...
...much more is demanded of the Obama pooch, who has the long name required of all registered purebreds but shall be known to the world as Bo. Though just a puppy, Bo spent his first days at the White House carrying grin-starved television anchors on his little back. He rounded up straying viewers for cable gabfests and herded readers to newsstands. A Virginia-based publisher is already rushing the first Bo book to print, and you can bet it won't be the last...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's critics once tried to get at him through his dog, Fala, claiming the Navy had been dispatched, at great public expense, after Fala was supposedly left behind on a remote island. The attack backfired--the GOP hadn't factored in the popularity of a pooch with his own secretary to answer fan mail. America is canine-crazy, which is why a President's best friend can sometimes be the only one he needs...