Thread:Greg Noel/@comment-4182530-20120603120215/@comment-5085162-20120603145438

I thought you'd like the words. And look up "goose" as a verb; then you could secretly goose someone and gander at them afterward. {;-}

Even with the icons and the descriptions, I click on a wrong one at least every other run. And on many other runs, I draw a blank on some name and have to use the clue. On the one hand, I tip my hat to Zynga for such a challenging and clever idea, but on the other hand, I hate them for such a fiendish, evil, cruel, malevolent, villainous, inhuman (not to mention dastardly) idea. (A few new words there?)

We've had poodles, but it's my wife's family that has always had dogs. She looks at the scene and says, "Oh, that's Snowie, Ted's Shih Tzu when we were growing up." "That's Rion, Pam's Sheltie when we were in college." Her friends and relatives have had at least two-thirds of the dog breeds in the scene; I've never met half of the people, much less the dogs. So I get the black Poodle easily enough, but all the rest are pure memorization. (Oh, I lie, my uncle had an Irish Setter, so I recognize Jumping Jack Flash Gordon in the scene, too. Yeah, that was the dog's real name.)  (Poodle: aus <>, aus dem Niederdeutschen <>.  Pudel waren ursprünglich Wasserhunde.)