by phsiii

These dogs ain’t barkin’

At least, not for travelgirl (or your editor)

She notes:

usually, i’m pretty good about divining intent and context, but this is one for which there isn’t the slightest clue. i know toes / feet can sometimes be nicknamed “hot dogs”, but that’s hardly phunny…

for me, anyway :)

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  3. Unknown's avatar

    It might be saying that the economy is so bad we’re about to start eating shoe leather. Historically people have boiled and eaten leather in very hard times, and there’s at least one famous anecdote of a group that survived on their own boots (and a lot of fictional allusions to it).

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  4. Unknown's avatar

    Including Chaplin’s depiction of eating a shoe in The Gold Rush. One memorable nice touch was twirling the laces like spaghetti.

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  5. Unknown's avatar

    All I have is the the old idiom “my dogs are barking” meaning my feet are tired or sore. While I think that has something to do the “joke”, I’m at a loss as to where it is going.

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  6. Unknown's avatar

    Yeah, I keep noodling around with “hot dogs” and “my dogs are barkin'” but I don’t get to a joke of any sort.

    Maybe we need a CIDU category of “one of these things is vaguely like the other”?

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  7. Unknown's avatar

    How else would you get the “dirty” in “dirty water dog” except from throwing in a shoe?

    I was wondering why the vendor was standing in the street instead of on the sidewalk.

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  11. Unknown's avatar

    In Chicago, there’s a sandwich called a “gym shoe.” But it’s made from gyros meat, corned beef, and Italian beef. And the shoe in this cartoon doesn’t even look like an athletic shoe, much less a gym shoe sandwich.

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  15. Unknown's avatar

    Springfield, Illinois, and surrounding towns, have a “horseshoe sandwich”. I don’t know which one I would rather not order, but in fact the sandwiches are more appetizing than the names.

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