AN OSCARS PUPS MEMORY

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Chance, what you doing?
Chance: KD, I'm praying don't ya know...
KD: Praying, that's a new one...
C: Well the Oscars are tonight, praying I don't win anything...
KD: Dude, you mean for the barking on that animated short?
C: Yep
KD: Chance, I believe you're safe buddy
C: Shew, was worried about acceptance speech...Don't know where my parents are so didn't want this to turn into an immigrant story
KD: Cool, dig your sensitivity...

Morning Graceful Ones,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Killer

Killer: Hey Bro, how’s your golf game?

KD: It’s coming along, some days are good, some are bad.

K: Are you getting on plane?

KD: How you know that is an issue?

K: It’s golf Bro

KD: Turns out there is a lot of athleticism and grace in the movements.

K: So, it’s pretty straightforward then…

KD: The path is, following it requires grace…

K: So, let’s do it gracefully.

KD: Out of the mouths of babes…

STEALING HEARTS

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Ken-Dogger: Well, Charlie, who's looking all spiffy this morning...
Charlie: I'm clean, my hynie's clean, no for real, my hynie's clean...
KD: So you're Charmin Clean?
C: Dude, I AM...so I'm even more cuddly now
KD: Yep, you got that goin' on...
C: And this crossover the midline step...Gets 'em every time
KD: You puppies just steal hearts, that's what you do...

A Worker PM

Morning Worker Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: Whoa Nellie
Nellie: What? Oh, my look, yep, a tad freaked.
KD: What’s going on?
N: Bro, worker protections, there aren’t many…
KD: Nope, and now they want workers taking vacay for weather emergencies.
N: Yep, I question where the balance is? You know, shared risks…
KD: Don’t get me wrong, risks are shared, it’s just workers get more than bargained for.
N: Yep, and corporations get richer…

Morning Gamers
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Ken-Dogger: Morning Benji
Benji: Hey Dogger, can we play that game again? You know, Kick the Can.
KD: Okay, I’ll be ‘It’, Go hide.
B: Wha.?
KD: You said play Kick the Can, I’m playing according to the rules.
B: Rules, what’s that? Can’t we just play the government version.
KD: Government version?
B: Yeah, we all run from problems, and you just keep kicking the can.
KD: Let’s do something novel, let’s be purposeful.
B: Guess we all need to live by rules…ALL OF US.

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Ken-Dogger: What up Cleo?

Cleo: Dude, you headed to the gym again?

KD: I am, gotta keep going.

C: Always wondered about that with you, why you feel like you gotta keep going.

KD: It’s my hedge

C: Your hedge?

KD: Yep, I do what I can to stay healthy because I live in the USA.

C: What’s unique about that?
KD: Cleo, we do health for profit here…If it makes money, we cure it. If it don’t, you’re on your own.

C: Being in the gym means we’re on our own, doesn’t it?

KD: Yep

A Sister Christian PM

Morning Lyrical Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Porgi, what ya doing?
Porgi: Sister Christian oh the time has come…
KD: You’re singing Sister Christian…
P: Yes Bro, what you think.
KD: Babe, you know You’re growing up so fast…
P: What are you doing?
KD: I was joining in?
P: Did I ask you to join in?
KD: ah, no…
P: Exactly, Bro…my song, my voice…MOTORING…
(Get that song out of your head today...hehehe)

PM for a Friend

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Adolfo
Adolfo: Hey Dogger, it’s B.A.’s birthday today
KD: Well, that’s right, it is, but we’ve already celebrated.
A: That’s okay, we can still note the day…new friends you know.
KD: That Mikster knows how to build connections…
A: Women seem to inherently know how to bond.
KD: They’re protectors, they show us the way…
A: The shame is most of you don’t know when to get out of the way.
KD: Amen, let’s celebrate strong women today, and say HB 2 B.A.

PLAYING CHEERFULLY

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Chops, how are you?
Chops: Dude, look at me, I’m frolicking…
KD: Frolicking? You know that word has two meanings…
C: Wha…No, I didn’t
KD: Well, you can either be playing or moving about cheerfully and energetically, or it means playing with someone in a flirtatious manner.
C: Dude, look at me…Do I look like I have that flirting thing down?
KD: No Chops, that takes time and skill…and patience
C: Dude, hence why I’m playing cheerfully…

ACCEPTING MY MISUNDERSTANDINGS

Morning Understanding Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Toots…
Toots: Hey Bro, what’s a love fight?
KD: It’s when two lovers disagree and argue over something.
T: Like what?
KD: Usually something silly, some misunderstanding.
T: I don’t see you and the Mikster having love fights.
KD: We’ve reached an understanding…
T: What’s that?
KD: We accept my misunderstanding, and we move on…

IN SEARCH OF FAMILIAR POKERS

A PM

Morning Gentle Prodders,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Nellie, would you just poke me now?
Nellie: Huh?
KD: I need you to just poke me this morning.
N: (poking) There, you’re poked.
KD: Thanks…
N: What was that all about?
KD: it’s just…Each day we just seem to get poked one way or another. I’d just like my poker to be someone familiar.
N: Familiar poking is more palatable?
KD: It’s my working hypothesis…We’ll see.

WANTING CHANCES

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Thor, what ya doing?
Thor: Dude, I’ve got my paw raised, I’m greeting the ladies…
KD: Aww, that’s so sweet of you…
T: (Ladies passing by…) Morning, Chance?…Morning, Chance?
KD: Chance? What are you saying?
T: Dogger Man, It’s my Indian Greeting passed down thru generations
KD: Really, I thought the Indians said How when they greeted.
T: Me know how, me want chance…
KD: I can’t even…

A PM

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Pugs, that’s a look…
Pugs: Dude, I’m studying…Just exactly what is government?
KD: It’s the action or manner of controlling or regulating a country or a people.
P: So governments look out for us?
KD: In theory they do, but in looking out for some, they also lose some.
P: So it’s like playing a game, you don’t always win.
KD: Yes it is, but now it seems no one wants any losses.
P: But isn’t it always about give and take?
KD: It is, we’re negotiating the balance…

A very special PM for the Mikster who completes me

Morning Mates,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Noodles, it’s a special day
Noodles: IKR, it’s the Mikster’s Birthday, she’s…
KD: Hold it right there Bucko, she’s older
N: And wiser?
KD: She was already that and she endures…
N: She does that, so what are we doing?
KD: Art and Houses, two of her passions…
N: And let’s shower her with love…
KD: That’s right, she showers us daily.
N: Yep, HB 2 the Mikster.

GETTING TO THE LICKS

Morning Loving Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Brauncy, whole lot of suffering happening now.
Brauncy: Yep, and a lot of recrimination.
KD: Wow, you know that word?
B: Dude, We know stuff, and we feel pain.
KD: And right now, with the pandemic and the weather, there is too, too much pain.
B: How can you Humans stop this?
KD: Guess we need to become more dog-like, more loving…
B: Dude, just get the licks down, the rest will follow.

Morning Builders,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Calista, what up?

Calista: Hey Bro…The NBA, that’s what’s up

KD: How so?

C: They’re cracking me up, all this trading and buying

KD: They keep trying to improve their teams

C: Seems like they’re forgetting what’s important then…

KD: Not sure I follow

C: You don’t improve a foundation by teetering around the edges, the base must be there.

KD: We need to be building better bases.

C: And, we need to remember how to build.

Another PM

Morning Real Perceptors,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Shaka, what up?
Shaka: Hey Dogger, just waking up.
KD: What is the World going to bring us today?
S: Your world or my world?
KD: I thought there was just One World.
S: Oh, there is…But there are different perceptions of it.
KD: So, do we share perceptions, or do we share reality?
S: Bro, we share our perceptions of reality, it’s all we ever know.

Morning Peeps, a PM

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Fritz, why the look?
Fritz: Dude, you see the time?
KD: Why yes, later than usual isn’t it?
F: Yes, what gives?
KD: Guess I’m sleeping better…
maybe it’s the calisthenics
F: Maybe so, you think I need to start these “C” things?
KD: Nope, you’ve got that sleeping thing down…You’re my model
F: ZZZZZZZZZZZ

SOMETIMES, YOU START LESSONS OVER

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Rascal, why the sad face?
Rascal: Dude, this love thing…it’s tricky
KD: Love is patient, love is kind, why has it been tricky?
R: That Trudy bro, apparently she has more beaus than me
KD: Sorry Rascal, sometimes your love is not returned in kind
R: I’m hip, but how will I know…
KD: You’ll know when you see it and feel it…
R: Oh, so it’s like porn then…
KD: Let me start this lesson over…

WE LIKED THE SLOGAN

Morning Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Big John, studying already?
Big John: Dude, studying trends…
KD: What do you see?
BJ: Looks like a lot of peeps are having trouble with child care.
KD: And it looks like many peeps are having trouble with elder care.
BJ: So do we win in the middle?
KD: Nope, you’re pretty much fending for yourself there too.
BJ: Dude, so why do we call America great?
KD: We liked the slogan BJ, we just liked the slogan.