Bear with me for a bit of backstory, k?
Daniel Hudson (DHuddy41) is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He's a nice guy and one of my favorite players. This is Daniel Hudson in action:
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| Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images North America |
Daniel Hudson has a dog named Buckley. This is Buckley in action:
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| Photo by Daniel Hudson |
When Buckley's mom (aka Mrs. Daniel Hudson) bought a new couch and then announced that Buckley would not be allowed to sleep on it (that's the old couch in the photo), Buckley took to Twitter to protest, creating his own account (BuxHuddy41) with the hashtag #WemmeSweepOnDaCouch to campaign for couch privileges. Buckley's supporters (and y'all know I support dogs on couches!) are known as the #RollAwoundSkwad and we #SwapPaws over small victories.
With me so far? Okay. That brings us to Tuesday night, when I was looking for something to make me laugh because, as y'all know, this has not exactly been the best week. (By the way, Charlie had surgery Monday to remove dead tissue and infection from his hand and he's still in the hospital. We now know he has an infection called MRSA, which you can read more about here, or you can just take my word for it that it's nasty, icky stuff which you would not wish on your worst enemy.) Anyhow, I may or may not have posted this photo to my Twitter feed:
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| Photo via Emergency Cute Stuff on Twitter |
Followed by this picture:
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| Photo via Emergency Cute Stuff on Twitter |
Followed by this tweet: "Oh my, the cuteness! I am in danger of RT-ing everything from EmergencyPuppy!"
Enter my friend Matthew, who I adore but who is badly in need of some silliness in his life. He's very serious and earnest. His job somehow involves handling other people's money--I think he's an investment banker or a stockbroker or something like that--and maybe if I had to do math all day I'd be serious and earnest and ever-so-slightly cranky all the time too.
Matthew (not "Matt", not ever) tweeted me: "Please don't."
I replied: "But, but--that little dog doing yoga is so, well, CUTE."
And then: "Maybe you'd prefer the cat singing a Collective Soul tune? I have that in my arsenal too."
Matthew: "All forms of animal cruelty as far as I am concerned."
Me: "I'm guessing you don't follow BuxHuddy41 either...."
Matthew: "You are correct. Nor will I even look at it."
And then something wonderful happened. Something marvelous. Something that is quite possibly the best Twitter moment ever.
Buckley Hudson entered the conversation.
Oh yes, he did.
Buckley Hudson tweeted, "Fow shame. #SomePeopowMan"
Hilarious.