“She never wanted anyone in her kitchen, so the only way you could get to lick the beater or the spatula was to help her out. All of a sudden, one day I realized I knew how to make all this stuff.”
–Tim Kellogg
So…Jamie has this stuffed toy dog that his grandma gave him when he was a baby. Like many toys Jamie’s owned since before he could actually talk, “Dog” has existed ubiquitously around the house without ever having been given a proper name.
Until last week, when Jamie proudly walked into the living room carrying Dog by one scrappy ear and announced that he’d finally named the pooch we’d all grown to know in anonymity: “Spatula.”
The Hunting of the Snark 