We all have them – cutesy names we call each other. It only makes sense that we’d also find silly names to call the furry children too.

Welcome to the 19th edition of the screaming pages Thursday Thirteen.

Thirteen nicknames for our pets. Thanatos Guppy Cheshire Kittie Cat Than Thannie Thannie-butt Thannie-toes Buddha Belly Beelzebub Bubba Bubbalu Bubushka Fenris Wolf Fen Shedzilla Hypnos Hippy Hypnosis Hippypotomas Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted! View More Thursday Thirteen Participants

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Got this via email from my good friend Wendy:

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Let’s get this straight, it’s called a gravel road. I drive a pickup truck because I need to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
3. They are pigs, cattle and oil wells. That’s what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? No. 2 goes south and north. No. 1 goes east and west. Pick one.
4. So, you drive a sixty-thousand dollar car. We’re real impressed. We have a quarter-million dollar combine that we drive three weeks a year.
5. So every person in a pickup waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
6. We started hunting and fishing when we were nine years old. Yeah, we saw “Bambi” too. We got over it.
7. If a cell phone rings when ducks are coming in, we shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.
8. Yeah, we eat beef and pork. You want sushi and caviar? It’s available at the corner bait shop.
9. The “Opener” refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
10. We open doors for women. This applies to everyone regardless of age.
11. No, there’s no “Vegetarian Special” on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef’s Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.
12. When we set a table there are three main dishes; meats, vegetables and breads. We use three spices; salt, pepper and ketchup.
13. You bring “Coke” into my house it better be brown, wet, served Over ice and plenty of it! You bring “Hooch” into my house it better have four legs, a tail and have a nose for partridge, duck or pheasant. You Bring “Mary Jane” to my house she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck and have long hair.
14. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don’t hit in the water hazards – it spooks the fish.
15. Colleges? Try Olds College. They come outta there with an education and a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickup trucks when they come home for the holidays.
16. We have more Air Force and Army than any other Province, so, “Don’t Mess with Alberta”.
17. Our military is only used as a backup. Per capita, each man, woman and child owns at least two firearms and knows how to use them.
18. Also, remember that Ralph once said, Alberta can make it without Canada, but Canada can’t make it without Alberta.

Who says we are rednecks??? We were under the impression everyone else was just backwards!

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We’re a quarter of the way through the new year and I’m over half way to my goal of reading 52 books this year. Knowing that I read a lot, perhaps I should have set a more robust goal. Despite being on vacation this week, I’ve been a little lax in my reading – mostly because I’m spending quite a bit of time looking for a new job.

I’m breaking the list down into two parts. The fist list will contain paperback and hardcover books I’ve been able to find and list on Shelfari and the second list contains all the eBooks I’ve been reading that I can’t figure out how to add to Shefari yet. Their ISBN’s don’t bring up any information. If anyone knows how to get an eBook added to Shelfari, please let me in on the secret.

Hardcover/Paperback

1. A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
2. The Last Juror – John Grisham
3. Goal Analysis – Robert F Mager
4. River’s End – Nora Roberts
5. Rebellion – Nora Roberts
6. Don’t be Afraid – Rebecca Drake
7. Who Moved My Cheese – Spenser Johnson
8. On The Run – Iris Johansen
9. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
10. Five Point Someone – What Not to do at IIT – Chetan Bhagat
11. One Night at the Call Center: A Novel – Chetan Bhagat
12. Jack Knife – Virginia Baker
13. The Opium Clerk – Kunal Basu
14. I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
15. Our Iceberg is Melting – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Spenser Johnson
16. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
17. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
18. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
19. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
22. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
23. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore

eBooks

1. Stripped – Rhonda Stapleton
2. Improper Longings – Dawn Ryder
3. High Seas Desire – Mlyn Hurn
4. Call of the Untamed – Michelle M. Pillow
5. After Sundown: Redemption – Eden Robins
6. Crime Tells: Lyric’s Cop – Jory Strong
7. Elisabeth’s Wolf – Lora Leigh
8. Malachi – Shiloh Walker

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Twas a weekend of oddities. First, we celebrated the “Year of the Pig” with a full 12 course traditional meal on St. Paddy’s day, then we rented a tonne of movies to have a quiet afternoon/evening in. The dinner was good – the company was much better – and the movies could be judged only on a sliding scale.

So, what’d we watch?

1. Barnyard
2. Open Season
3. Borat
4. Snakes on a Plane
5. Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Barnyard was pretty bad (I stopped watching and read a book), Open Season was cute, but definitely pales in comparison to Happy Feet or Cars. Borat had some great site gags and “translation” items and was definitely my favourite movie of the weekend until we stuck Bon Cop, Bad Cop in the DVD player.

Here I should mention that I adore Canadian cinema. If Atom Egoyan, Denis Arcand and David Cronenberg had anything to do with it, then I’m more than willing to stand in line in the cold to see it. After watching Bon Cop, Bad Cop I need to add Eric Canuel, Leila Basen, Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard and Kevin Tierney to my must see list.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop, playing on Canada’s language issues and love of hockey is a predicable crime thriller with intelligent dialogue. Me, I found it laugh-out-loud funny. I also spent way too much time playing “pick out the real hockey figure” while watching than I should have. If nothing else, we’ve proven in my house who has more in-depth hockey knowledge (me) and who has quicker eyes for reading subtitles (the hubby). I’ll admit, the subtitles were a bit of a challenge for me since I speak both languages and sometimes what I heard didn’t exactly match what I was reading. Hubby, being an anglophone with limited knowledge of “toad code”, didn’t face the same challenges.

Patrick Huard and Colm Feore had amazing chemistry but it was the few scenes featuring Louis-Jose Houde that stole the show. Such a hilarious spin on the know it all Coroner. And now, for the newest game show sensation…

Memorable Quotes:

• David Bouchard (Patrick Huard): You have an accent in both languages. Who was your teacher? Jean Chretien?

• David Bouchard (Patrick Huard): [surprised] You speak French?
• Martin Ward (Colm Feore): No, not really. I had a small gadget installed in my brain and I see subtitles under people when they speak.

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