Althouse: "Corgi on a Carousel."

December 8, 2013

"Corgi on a Carousel."

Via Metafilter.

And here's Buzzfeed's "40 Most Important Corgis Of 2013."

12 comments:

lemondog said...: Nice treadmill for Meatball.

He is a a cutey.; 12/8/13, 6:08 PM
Conserve Liberty said...: How can no one have commented yet on a Corgi?; 12/8/13, 6:14 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Don't miss the part at about 3:00.; 12/8/13, 6:19 PM
John Burgess said...: @Conserve Libery:

Die, corgie, die!

[Will that do?]; 12/8/13, 7:15 PM
Wince said...: Haven't seen one of those Carousels on a playground in some time. Assumed modern liability rules had made them all but extinct.

Particularly one of that vintage, design and metallic construction.

Are many left?; 12/8/13, 10:33 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Notice that the dog isn't dizzy. He's staying in one place so that the world doesn't move.; 12/8/13, 10:53 PM
Carnifex said...: @EDH

As children, we would get on them and try to spin them fast enough to achieve orbital velocity.(all children do this) Never quite got that fast, but we could dump you off quick enough. Terribly dangerous, yet no one got hurt, so yes, they probably are banned.

Corgi's ain't my favorite breed, but in a pinch, any dog'll do.; 12/9/13, 2:25 AM
Peter said...: Poor corgis, they have practically no legs! If someone spins that and doggy falls off, those super-short corgi legs will never move fast enough to prevent a doggy rollover accident.; 12/9/13, 9:06 AM
madAsHell said...: Wow! A carousel? They haven't removed it to save the children.

I learned a lot about physics on a carousel. Unfortunately, they removed it.; 12/9/13, 9:13 AM
sonicfrog said...: Corgi on a carousel???

Is he 30 in dog years already????? :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSUAAKFLoL0; 12/9/13, 10:54 AM
Dr Weevil said...: I saw one of those carousels for the first time in 15-20 years just yesterday. I was so amazed I took a picture, though I won't be able to upload it for a few days.

It was much smaller, maybe 6' across, with only three metal handrail loops, and even closer to the ground. Significantly, it was not in the U.S. but in Germany, in front of the Alte Pinakothek (pre-1800 art museum) in Munich. There were also a couple of very long teeter-totters, and some kind of rope nets you could get all tangle up in - horizontal and only 1-2 feet from the ground, but still looked like more fun than anything in a contemporary American playground.; 12/9/13, 12:35 PM
Gil said...: I think I'm going to adopt that as my new epithet substitute, "Holy corgi on a carousel, what have you done?"; 12/10/13, 1:15 AM