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And the Winner Is…

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Laurie B wins the Name-the-Pup Giveaway, with her idea of Maggie!

It’s perfect. Not only does the little dog look a lot like a Maggie, but the name brings to mind one Margaret Thatcher. We have here…

• a breed of dog associated with the Queen of England;
• said breed, represented by the Funny Farm’s decidedly royal — nay, imperial — resident;
• and now Maggie, Prime Minister to the Queen of the Universe and Empress of All Time, Space, and Eternity!

Congratulations, Laurie B! And thanks for coming up with a great name for the Queen’s new underling.

This was not an easy decision. Many excellent and delightful puppy names surfaced. In addition to Maggie, I especially liked Poppy, Georgie, Chloe, Willie… We had another Margaret: “Dame Margaret Corey.” It has an appropriately aristocratic ring, but the name “Maggie” instantly elicited Maggie Thatcher. So that’s the one we’ll go with.

So Laurie B gets a free copy of How I Lost 30 Pounds in Four Months, in its prepublication form.

If you’d like a copy, too, get in touch through funnyaboutmoney {at} gmail {dot} com. Prepublication price for four chapters of weight-loss advice and about 125 recipes, in a PDF file, is $3.99, payable through PayPal.

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LAST CHANCE for Name-the-Pup Giveaway!

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Corgi Cute-ificationw00t! We’re picking up the baby corgi the day after tomorrow, Sunday afternoon. By Sunday morning, I’d like to have a name for this pup. Over at the great Pup-Naming Diet Book Giveaway, we already have quite a few kewl, adorable, clever, ingenious, brilliant and smokin’ proposed names.

It’s NOT TOO LATE to get a shot at a FREE prepublication copy of How I Lost 30 Pounds in Four Months…Without Hardly Tryin’! The thing has four chapters of diet advice and about 125 mouth-watering recipes from Funny about Money, some of them deliciously dietetic and some of them appropriate for the occasional splurge.

To enter, go to the Name-the-Pup post and, in a comment, tell me what YOU think this little cutie’s natural-born name really is.

The decision will be announced on Sunday morning…before 9 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

P.S. After you post your name at the giveaway, check out this amazing moment of corgi cuteness.

 

 

PUPPY NAMING GIVE-AWAY: The 4-Month Diet Cookbook!

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So… Soon, before we even know it, Pup will be here. Lindsay, our Pup Breeder, wishes to know what we wish to name this dawg. We have no clue.

BUT…we have a blog. We have clever, creative, and brilliant readers.

Let us call upon them.

My latest book, How I Lost 30 Pounds in Four Months, is about ready for publication. It soon will be available on Amazon.

As a special gift to FaM readers ( 🙂 ), I propose to give away one (1) advance copy, in the form of a PDF, to the person who comes up with the cutest, most appealing, or most appropriate name for this tiny li’l corgi:

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By “cutest, most appealing, or most appropriate,” we mean “the one I subjectively like the most.” 🙂

No guarantees that this will be THE name that sticks with the pooch for life, since I usually end up naming a pet after I’ve come to know it. But we do need something to start with.

The full title (speaking of names) of the diet/recipe book is How I Lost 30 Pounds in Four Months…Without Hardly Trying: Diet Advice and 125 Killer Recipes from Funny about Money. Not all the recipes are dietetic — those that shouldn’t add too much fat to the frame are tagged with stars. But all are pretty darned good to eat.

30 poundsThe winner will get page proofs for How I Lost 30 Pounds, in PDF format, complete with four chapters of detailed diet advice (largely unscientific) and about 125 recipes, some but not all of which have appeared at Funny about Money.

To participate, submit a comment to this post with your suggested name for this magnificent little corgi pup.

The contest will be open for ten days, starting today: Thursday, February 27, 2014.

Corgi Cute-ification

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Breeder Lindsay sends new photos of Pup, who’s now six weeks old. Click once on an image, then again to get the full, glorious effect:

I hafta ask ya: Does she redefine Cute or not?

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Puppy!

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So Sunday we raced out to Wittman between choral events to view and select the puppy. Here she is:

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(Click on the images for larger, higher-resolution views)

Whaddaya think? Cute? or Not Cute?

She doesn’t have a name yet…figuring out what she should be called is the next project.

Breeder Lindsay thinks this pup is the quietest and probably the least assertive of the litter, the concern being that Cassie could get competitive with another female. Personally, I think Cassie will be fine. But time will tell.

IMG_1758She’s SO TINY at five weeks: no bigger than my shoe. In this photo, she looks like a sable (fur with two or three colors on each shaft) or a  tri-color (red, white, and black), but Lindsay believes she’ll be red and white. Corgis change color dramatically in the first few weeks and months of life.

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Mmmmm! Shoe! Good to eat! 😀 She may be the quietest of the litter, but in Corgi language that does not seem to translate to “retiring.”

IMG_1770Puppy. Kill. Starfish!

IMG_1776Puppy. Kill. Finger!

IMG_1792Whew! Hunting is hard work!

IMG_1795She found a cave and took it over as a nest, where she promptly fell asleep.

IMG_1796Back in the den with brothers and sisters!

Tamale Puppies!

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LOL! They look like a plate of tamales here! These are Keelie’s puppies at three weeks. And here’s the one the breeder currently favors to  keep for herself:

3 Weeks 147Awwww! How cute can you get, eh?

Here’s a male from the Saydee’s pups, the group that the Queen’s new courtier will be coming from:

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And a female from that litter:

female purple 3 Weeks 109At ten days old…not quite ready to take on the world, but gettin’ there. Breeder Lindsay thinks the second litter will open their eyes this week.