Och, Aye! Barney's bitin' an' fightin'
Trainee reporters are warned to avoid "Dog bites man" stories because they're so commonplace. But since we live at a time when all the media verities are being pitched over the side, dog-bites-man is news, as in when President Bush's Scottish terrier Barney bites Reuters reporter Jon Decker. Thanks to the technologies that enable all of us to have a voice, Barney tells his side of the story and reveals that the Bush-Obama transition may not be as smooth as we're being led to believe.
Scottish English: "The dog died on me" means that the dog died in spite of all my efforts. It's highly unlikely that those will be Bonny Prince Barney's last words.
