The drugs don't work. And it all still hurts

- they’re Opawz pet specific dyes. Non toxic made specifically for dogs. Once they’re set and rinsed they can groom themselves normally, they pose no danger to her in any way, no fumes, there’s no bleach involved

- my dog is trained with cooperative care skills, the process is not stressful for her, she gets paid heavily for her cooperation and looks forwards to the opportunity to earn extra snacks with the grooming

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Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

We all love complex characters, we all love characters that are allowed to be fully fleshed out humans not just a collection of wonderful qualities but I love how most of the discworld characters have human traits that would make them mildly irritating in real life (especially when seen from the point of view of the other characters)

Granny is an interfering old woman who cannot bear to be wrong, Rincewind is whiny and has limitless supplies of self pity, Sam Vimes is far too caught up in his own head, woe betide any young woman who happens to marry into the Ogg family, Carrot, a character who was written to be perfect in every aspect is often a frustrating boyfriend.

My favourite example of this is Susan initially refusing to believe that time is a person even though she knows death is a person and that lots of things go on that people don’t know about because they don’t see what they know can’t be real yet Susan is too stubborn to believe that time could be a person.