
…and his name was Tripod.
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Hey, so did Layne Staley. And *my* neighbor when I was a kid. I’m starting to sense a conspiracy. This demands dogged investigation. And perhaps a dog-leg in our thinking to reconsider what we think we already know… no sense in being dogmatic.
I forgot the link to the Alice in Chains Tripod…
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=three legged dog&search=Search
Sorry try . . .
http://tinyurl.com/2sjf8t
I know we did not grow up in the same neighborhood, but we too had a Tripod running around. Another one was called “Skipper”.
McCartney- “My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none.”
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As Andy said in the office after I posted this, “Everyone knew of a dog in their neighborhood named tripod when they were growing up.” Exactly! But did anyone ever own a dog named tripod? That is the bigger question.