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Originally Posted by Cheyenne
"What man says to Ginger (dog or internet user): This that and the other" What Ginger hears: Blah blah blah blah"
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In the Far Side cartoon (which caused the invention of the term "Larson's Dog Effect" in the field of user interface design) Ginger actually can hear her name in between the "blahs".
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Originally Posted by Pink Freud
The first panel is titled "What we say to dogs." A man is scolding his
dog. The man's word-balloon says this: "Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You
stay out of the garbage! Understand, Ginger? Stay out of the garbage,
or else!?"
The second panel is titled "What they hear." The drawing is exactly
like the first panel, but this time the man's word-balloon says "Blah
blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah
blah blah blah."
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Too bad I can't find an image of it...but I did find the next evolution in human-canine communication:
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People who argue or debate for the sake of hearing themselves is a real waste of time in my book.
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Ginger probably can't make subject and verb agree in number either, though. :-)
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Last edited by MaggieL; 05-07-2006 at 10:50 AM.
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