Woof Woofington

"Oh my dog! You've been nominated for a Bloggie!"

Yes, much to the Mistress's amazement, Woof Woofington has been nominated for a Bloggie (The Weblog Awards are the blog equivalent of the Oscars, don't you know?)! And those were her very words when she found out!

Of course, I am not surprised; never underestimate the power of the dog, especially the dog blog if you know what I mean!

Check out the Bloggies website ( http://2007.bloggies.com/) and you'll see me under Best Kept Secret category. If you like what you see, please vote for ME! And yes, I will beg if required! I draw the line at rolling over but begging I can do!

People have been so nice to me, sending me lovely emails and for the first time ever I feel part of the blogging community.

And yes, since you've asked, I am the only dog nominated so a vote for me is a vote for dogs! Yes, it is.

Apparently, there is an award ceremony in America and the Mistress's other half has offered to take me! The Mistress has vetoed me flying (carbon footprint and all that) but I could go on the QM2. They have a kennel on board and judging by the prices, I think the Mistress and her other half might try to share my space! We could then maybe get the Greyhound bus to Texas. It would be SO exciting.

Anyway, to be honest, it's an absolute thrill and honour to be nominated and I know I am in good company.

I haven't checked out the competition yet but one thing I do know is that a fellow Londoner definitely deserves your vote BUT in a different category, obviously. You’ll find this one under Best British or Irish weblog.

http://london-underground.blogspot.com/

So, all that remains is for me to say THANK YOU to everyone who voted and please, please, please vote again this time round. It will really mean a lot to me and I know the Mistress will be buying me BIG presents if I win.

Woof Woof

Buzz! Sony’s new playstation game could be cited in the divorce courts…

Incredible but true, yes, a humble interactive music quiz, namely Buzz, could be cited in divorce courts across the land.

How do I know this? Because having seen the mistress in action tonight with her other half (whom I am still trying to ignore), I can see just a single outcome and it will, I predict, end in tears.

Buzz looks like the ideal party game and should, I think, remain that. Forget playing as a couple, particularly if one if you is competitive or just a bad loser. The mistress is both but so is her other half.

Catastrophe! And that is not a word I use lightly.

The game started off being friendly enough; the mistress knows nothing about playstations (she has played with HIM before but it’s always ended badly so I think she thought for the sake of the relationship….) so she was, in a way, dependent upon her opponent showing her the ropes. Only he couldn’t because, or so he claimed, he didn’t know how to play it either. He was a Buzz virgin so they could “learn together”.

At the end of the first game (several different rounds, including fastest finger first!), the mistress got beaten by just 50 points so she felt her score was fairly respectable. Come the second round it has jumped up to ….a defeat of 1500. By the third game, she was trounced; the mistress trailed behind by some … 3,000 points. After the trouncing, came..the flouncing and she marched off, calling him “dishonest” and “playing me for a fool”. Well, I could have told her THAT!

In fact, they both got so agitated that I got agitated and started barking but they told me to “Be quiet and go to bed”! I ask you!

It’s just like exam time when all those people (so I am told - I have never sat any exams) pretend to know nothing and then get straight A’s. You know the type. The mistress accused him of behaving in exactly the same way.

The mistress has calmed down now but they are seeing some equally competitive friends tomorrow; they also hate to lose – yes, all of them. If the friendships remain intact, it will be a miracle but, chances are, it will be a right dog’s dinner.

Woof Woof