Beating Yourself Up — Canine Style

POST 371
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

This has had 10,000+ YouTube hits, so maybe you’ve seen it before but it’s here because this particular dog has clearly read my earlier post, Beating Yourself Up for Fun & Profit, and is no doubt channeling his inner Donald O’Connor, Michael Richards, and Rowan Atkinson. And why not? Fighting yourself has to be one of the quintessential slapstick gags: it’s physically difficult, it’s mime, it’s absurdist humor….  it’s barf-irrific.

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Guard that bone! Yes, animals do have a sense of humor.

Thanks to Ted Lawrence for the link!

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