[jayceekay]

> "Diplomacy is the art of saying “good dog” until you make it to the rock."

this was new to me and the 'to the rock' part didn't make sense to me, so i looked it up.

http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/About/quotes.html this page says it's actually this: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock."

find a rock as in kill them? :O

[toomuchtodo]

No canines we’re harmed in using the turn of phrase in my above comment.

[thomasjudge]

It doesn't have to be killing them, if a stray hostile dog is harassing you throwing a rock at it might make it go away

[ask_b123]

"the" was especially confusing to me and also had to look it up.