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Does anybody get fuzzy today? I mean the trivia's fine, but what's with the ululat?
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I don't get it either, max.
Also, I'd heard that "Three Dog Night" was an Australian expression, fwiw.
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No Latin scholar here, but I would infer that ululat is third person singular of ululare or some such, meaning an approximation of "He is howling."  (and this means the UBB codes and graemlins are working now)
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It may be a pun, perhaps: uvulate (or ululare)/ulu Lat. The first ghits on ulu bring up Alaskan trinket dealers who sell, among other things, 'uluknives,' whatever they are.
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ulu knives click the second "read more, press here" for some pictures. another site says: Ulu knives are made from large recycled band-saws EDIT: even better, from Vermont: ULU Knives
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Yes, the verb is ululo, (ululare, ululavi, ululatum), 'to howl, shriek, yell, utter a mournful cry'. So, the dog is saying: "he, she, or it howls".
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Yep, that's what the title of my previous post was supposed to express, as well as that of Max's original post, I daresay. I still don't why Satchel's howling, though.
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>why Satchel's howling
i) stupid dog terms?
ii) ill-fitting toga?!
iii) whisker curls??
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I still don't why Satchel's howling, though.
A) That's not Satchel
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2) Even if it were, if he were howling he'd say, "Ululo," as nuncle pointed out.
In other words, I don't get the joke, either.
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Yep, that's what the title of my previous post was supposed to express, as well as that of Max's original post, I daresay.
Indeed, I had attempted to indicate awareness of the meaning of ululat in my post's subject line. Without a great deal of success, apparently.
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Without a great deal of success, apparently.
too clever for your own good, I guess. 
and I don't get it, either.
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and I don't get it, either.
Unless it's just a nod to the fact that the two "facts" that are actually facts are Latin connections. I mo run that "three dog night" one past the good folks at wordorigins.
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I thought he was saying something like "Yer preaching to the choir." or "OBviously!"
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I think maybe y'all're lookin' a mite too hard. The only times I ever see this cartoon is when it's referred to here, so I don't know whether the dog is normally deeply insightful, or what. But through a stranger's eyes (mine), I would say that the toga and the Latin (which even I was able to connect to ululate) are because of the ref. to the ancient Romans. And now, to get to the crux of the matter, I would say that the facial expression plus the use of the period (indicating no particular emotion), together serve to demonstrate the dog's utter lack of interest in the stated "facts". Like I have used woo, as in: "My big excitement of the day was that I went to the grocery. Woo."
Sometimes it is the simple answer.
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(sorry, just another post hoping to make this one go away as new...)
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>That's not Satchel
maybe, maybe not. it may be a Roman foredog, or it may be Satchel gussied up to look Roman (which might make him howl, if he weren't only a cartoon dog in the first place).
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>That's not Satchel
maybe, maybe not. it may be a Roman foredog, or it may be Satchel gussied up to look Roman (which might make him howl, if he weren't only a cartoon dog in the first place).
It's flat not Satchel. The muzzle is wrong and the ears are wrong. And he's not howling, he's reporting that someone else is howling. Geesh. We're never going to solve this mission critical problem if we can't agree what it is.
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