Weston - (Hydrant) The mystery of the happy dogs escalated today, as Happy Dog has been spotted in several new locations. Happy Dog made his first appearence last week Dog Has Best Smile Ever, Makes Mouths Happy (PHOTO) first posted on June 20, 2011. Noone seems to know who produced the original Happy Dog photo. If it was you, please contact me so I can give you a proper photecredit.
Happy Dog 1: Original Happy Dog
Of, course given the wild and wolly nature of the internet, after his photo went viral, photobombers, and even several Republican candidates went wild. Please follow below the fold.
Happy Dog 2: Vote for Sarah in Poll
Sarah Palin's campaign staff, ever vigilant for publicity opportunities immediately invited Happy Dog, for a photo-op, on her stalking horse, campaign bus tour across America.
Photobombers then got in on the act, splicing in Happy Dog, at this golf tournament. Now so many Photobombers have been posting Happy Dog remixes, HuffPo announced a competition, here. But, you can send them in here as well. Happy Dog 17 below has been cropped for easy addition. If you click on this Happy Dog 17, you will be transported to my Photobucket site where I keep all photos I use on Daily Kos, you can copy the HTML code, and paste it on any photo you like.
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Not to be outdone, Michelle Bachman invited Happy Dog, to be with her during her recent Christian revival healing. Campaign staffer, wishing to remain anonymous confirmed what many have already suspected -- that Michelle Bachmann see's Sarah Palin as her biggest competition for the Vice President spot. She is aiming to be number 2 on a Romney-Bachmann ticket. Palin's staff responded by saying they might consider Bachmann to be number 2 on a Palin -Bachmann ticket but thought Mitt Romney would be a more qualified Vice President for Sarah Palin Presidential bid.
Michelle Bachmann invited Happy Dog this recent laying-on-of-the-hands combination Christian healing and GOP rally. Rumors in Washington, are that Michelle Bachman will officially announce here Presidential nomination, and "Heal The Nation" campaign bus tour, this week to upstage Sarah Palin, who here campaign staff thinks is hogging too much publicity.
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Bachmann's staff was quick to point out that Michelle is quite capable of out-smiling Happy Dog on her own, reminding reporters of these two pictures. Here Mrs. Bachmann was seen at her sisters funeral, and second competing with the seals for fish as Seaworld as was reported her in a Hydrant exclusive story. Michelle Bachmann Competes With Seals For Fish At Seaworld (Satire)
by HoundDog for Hydrant, Happy Dog 5
Of, course a good thing always inspires imitators. Other dog owners think their dogs can look just as happy as Michelle Bachmann. So I will leave it to your vote in the poll below.
Which of the Happy Dogs should by my new mascot. I've been using Hypnotoad, after discovering that my previous avatar of me and Teddy in our red Corvette produces errors in the still buggy DK4 Avatar editor. It works in diaries, comments and everywhere else.
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Happy Dog 16 (This one is AngelaJean's and her family's favorite, and this whole diary is dedicated to her for cheering me up yesterday, and her 12 year old, Connor, who likes this best. Me too! Please vote for it, under her comment. Hint: you can vote twice in the comments folks. "-) )
Happy Dog 17 This is a photocrop of Happy Dog so you can past it on your own pictures, and send them in to us, or post in comments. Just click on Happy Dog, and you will be in my photobucket library where you can copy the HTML code
Happy dog 18. This is me, The HoundDog and my friend Teddy, in our new red Corvette on sniffing out the trail of progressive mysteries.
Happy Dog 19 This is a second bigger cropped picture of Happy Dog 16 and his friend Curious Dog 20 just for Angie, Connor, and the rest of her family
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And, now I've learned that while Hypnotoad’s pulsating eye effect works even in the Avatar box of DK4 if one if viewing from Internet Explorer, those viewing from the superior FireFox browser see the eyes skipping around the page, in some other bug, in how DK4 avatar box processes the code. I suspect the error is due to the fact that DK4 can not correctly process any other quotation font but the pure vertical up and down ones it uses. If you pre-process your diaries in word, or any other processor that uses a slanted quotation marks, you links will produce errors.
And, if you try to use any quotation marks at all in your poll lines, even the vertical DK4 ones, your quotations will disappear. This is why I've had missing quote, and now do not use quotation marks at all in the poll responses. And, yes, I've filed bug reports on these many times.
BTW: I think the royalty scheme of 50 cents per comment, and $1.00 per diary rec is more than generous, and I have no complaints at all, I am enjoying my new big screen TV a great deal. But, I would be glad to forego 10% of all royalty payments if Markos would agree to use the savings to hire extra technical programming help to get us through this rocky DK4 transition. Next time he invites my on the new Daily Kos Leer Jet, I am going to mention this too him.
Also, you may not have noticed but your "Comment Rating" counter as not increase by even one count in the last 3 months, no matter how many other comments you've rec'd. And, we still do not have a rec's received counter, which is unfair to many of our readers you receive tremendous numbers of recs from others for their excellent comments but receive no credit.
1:43 PM PT: Yikes, when I went to publish this under Hydrant I noticed a dozen really great diaries waiting to be republished under the Hydrant banner. As penance I published them all without even reading them. Sorry to the authors who've honored us by republishing year. We need more editors with a sense of humor to guarantee that if someone publishes here they can count on getting republished soon. So anyone who has a sense of humor and has the editing skills to hit the "publish button" please join up and help us out.
Also, I noticed that at least half of the dozens of new editors and contributors we have signed up, have not selected the "Follow Hydrant" button in our blog profile, which means you haven't been getting our publications republished in you stream. I am going to adapt the automatic "Follow Kosowatt" button we have at Kosowatt so you authors who publish here can include it at the bottom of their diaries and readers can sign up with one click not leaving the main read screen.
This may take me a few hours, so if you want to follow now, click on the Hydrant phrase after my name above, then click on profile, then look to the left of the screen under the flog, or soon to be Happy Dog picture, then click on Follow Hydrant. The founders of DK did not want just anyone to be able to follow groups, with this capability and attention span test. But, I think this is discriminatory, to the bottom half of the Bell Curve. All Americans should have equal right to humor, sarcascism, snark, wit, creative writing, limericks, poetry, and other creative writing.
BTW thanks to fellow Blog Editor Cassandra Carolina for expanding Hydrant's vision with her fantastic limerick ability. She laid down the challenge. You can give her any topic, any time, place, or mood, and she can respond with a limerick custom designed just for you. I've not been able to stump her yet.
Happy Dog will give an autographed photo to anyone who can. :-)