-- Favorite Food
Dogs: kibbles
Computers: bits
-- Method used to end undesirable behavior
Dogs: hit with rolled up newspaper
Computers: hit control-alt-delete
-- After destruction of personal property
Dogs: dog not found
Computers: file not found
-- Favorite trick
Dogs: roll over
Computers: play dead
-- Comic-page hero
Dogs: Dogbert
Computers: Dilbert
-- Fun way to mess with their heads
Dogs: peanut butter on roof of mouth
Computers: peanut butter in CD-ROM drive
-- Consequence of virus
Dogs: replace valuable carpeting
Computers: replace valuable data
-- Widely ignored government mandate
Dogs: leash law
Computers: Communications Decency Act
-- Waste disposal tool
Dogs: pooper-scooper
Computers: uninstaller
-- Sensitive internal procedures
Dogs: must be undertaken by fully qualified professional
Computers: may be undertaken by that guy at work who fixed one kind of like this once
-- Method of marking territory
Dogs: lifting leg
Computers: "Designed for Windows XP"
-- Unique behavior
Dogs: lick and drag
Computers: click-and-drag
-- Inexplicable physical feature
Dogs: declaw
Computers: scroll lock key
-- Estimated lifespan
Dogs: 12 years
Computers: 12 months
-- At end of useful life
Dogs: euthanasia
Computers: tax deduction
Dogs And Computers:
Same Or Different?
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.
~Emily Dickinson
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