In icy Nosevember, as the west wind blows
As mercury plummets and shutters close
As candles flicker their final throes
What lurks nearby, do you suppose?
From highs or lows, in grim repose
Its steady, strident sniffing grows
Like tell-tale hearts in tales of Poe’s
And where it comes from, no one knows.
So heed this warning, to all those
Who seek out warmth for frozen toes
Where icy moistness sometimes goes,
Beware the chill of … THE LURKING NOSE!
Warm thanks to Kirsten S.(top photo) Eilen R. (middle photo) and Emily (bottom photo.)
Awwww… cute widdle nosies!
And what is more: great little poem. NoMToM, I like it!!!
Holy moley…nose number 3 looks just like my dog Betty!
Check out her laziness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAgWOCXxv3k
Welcome, foolish nostrils, to the Haunted Mansion …
Best. Poem. Ever.
That’s it. I’m starting a NTMTOM fanclub.
cute
that poem, and the accompanying shnozels, is truly, truly, truly outrageous.
I’m kind of in love with your poetic abilities.
Brilliant!
I love it! All of it!
I hope my “Beep” hand is strong enough.
*flexes fingers*
Oh yeah. I’m going in!
A work of genius.
Um, I think nose-pupster #3 is leaking some tailio, but I’m sure it’s just a temporary set-back, they’ll get their nose-tique perfected still yet.
C’mon, peeps! This is Nose-vember, after all.
Great poem, NTMTOM! As we have said before, we are not worthy! *Kneels at feet of the master and bows*
Becky, your dog. . .looks like just the one I had and had to give up. PLEASE show me another picture! Is she nearly 7? Please, I would love to know. Thanks!
I’m with bugmom…let the Beeping begin!
NOMTOM, I can actually hear Vincent Price’s voice in my head when I read that poem.
(Don’t ask me about the other times I hear Vincent Price’s voice in my head. MmmmmhahahHAHAHAHA!)
Oh, for the love of God, Montresor – let us split a cask of Amontillado to warm these frosty nosicles!
I wanna be all snuggled under a blankie with a warm critter….but it’s 75 out and decidedly NOT Novemburrr weather.
Love the poem, the noses, and the hope that someday fall weather will actually hit the bay area.
I have to agree, wonderful Nosevember pictures and excellent Nosevember poem. I can just about feel the shock of the encounter with the cold Lurking Nose!
Accompanied by the famous old German chorale tune “Hier kommt der Villain.”
(Any PDQ Bach geeks out there?)
*** plants kees on each fuzzy muzzle ***
I’m trying to figure out what dog #1 is poking his/her head out from… Do dogs luurkensproinger?
BRILLIANT!!!!!
just outing myself as another NTMTOM fan
I think #1 is the hot dog dachshund pup inside a slipper…..
Doggie noses rule!
That is the best Nose Poem ever! Is there no end to the talents of our Guru of Cute?
Bravoes!
@Boomer’s Babysitter–I believe it’s known as an xtreme turtleneck sweater.
I love Love LOVE your poem! the noses are cute too!
@LOLBabyMama – What a sweeeeet beeeeeagle! Beagles are indeed the nosiest of dogs.
I love Love LOVE your poem! the noses are cute too!
BESTEST POEM EVER!!!!! I am going to read this to my English-lit class.
The third one looks like my much-missed pooch. Somehow that nose required a full half of the bed.
In other news, I was mauled by a border collie puppy today. She leapt up on me and barked and sort of fake-nipped at my nose, but surrendered to ear scratching and belly rubs. The owner was very apologetic, but frankly, it was the best part of my day. The fact that I had muddy trousers and a talk to give that afternoon was inconsequential. If a border collie pup wants to show me love, then go right on and leap up.
Excellente as per usual, NTMTOM! Although I wish the chill of Nosevember would hurry up and get to southern California, where all pets are remaining indoors so as to protect their noses and other breathing apparatuseseses.
NOMTOM’s a poet, and he does know it.
Indeed, it needs a Vincent Price reading. I was so engrossed with the poem I barely noticed the nosicles at first. (then I went back and appreciated them — like the first one best)
beware the chill of the lurking nose! LOL very cute.
NOTHING CUTER THEN LITTLE FUZZY NOSES.A KISS ON THE TIP OF THE NOSES
Cute Overload should go into childrens books. Or at least NOMTOM should. He rocks wit da verse!
YES! This is spectacular, adorable, wonderful, terrific and delightful. Thank you for The. Best. Yet.
It’s very nosevember-ish here in mid-MI. We have snose on the ground…
Theresa-”Look –up –her —dress…”
and “running know, running knows”…
yes there is at least one PDQ Bach fan out here.
Nose #2 – is that Roofees??
@Katrina! Heee! It’s almost time to throw the Yule Log on Uncle John!
We had ‘Tock-tober…now Nose-ember!
I don’t normally go in for doggerel, but the dogs justified it in this case.
(whispers in horror) I’ve got two lurking noses right next to me (eep!)
I had a quiet little snigger to myself when I saw this post
This is exactly what my mum and dad’s dog does (quite frankly, he gets treated better than their own children *sigh*). He has a rug on their couch and he likes to put the rug on himself by ‘rooting’ underneath it with his muzzle, tossing the blanket up over his head until it is – more or less – on top of him. *head tilt* ahn….
sweet! I made cute overload! pup #3 is my dog Maximus. He’ll be like that all winter long.
@Michelle S – Can I join the fan club?
We need a “Management Bio” section.
Is anyone else wondering how Theo will incorporate these with the “beep” guy?
Madman! We have sealed her living in the tomb!! I hear the beating of the hideous heart!
Most excellent poem, dude! Nice doggie snouts too.
Sign me up for the NTMTOM fan club also! This made me LOL at work (usually not a sound we hear around here.. sorry to say.) Wonderful nosies and just perfect for Nosevember.
Who nose what evil lurks within the noses of dogs? Only the NOMTOM nose!
@T.U.M., dog snot, most likely.
Great Poem NoMToM! I’m working in Florida this week and it’s turning into a three dog night so the count is perfect! Muah!
My favorite part is #2′s googly eyeball! Oh my.
@Joools, I don’t think that’s Roofees– too much white around the nose.
Poochie #3 must be an afghan hound…
What?
And lo! The chimes of midnight strike!
A host of noses, all alike!
Thus speaks the Loris: “Hee! I like
Not that Mike. But the other Mike!”
Fantastic poem!!!
Pic #3: When the tails of Nosevember come early….(apologies to Gordon Lightfoot)
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ALL THESE LURKING NOSES,ME THINK IT’S TIME FOR PROSES
Nose #2 looks like our little old man, Scout–a 16.5 yr. old Taco Terrier. The Nose knows!
Fabulous NTMTOM!!!!
And Theo, today’s UserFriendly comic is for you.
ironicity: i’m listening to Poe singing “beautiful girls” at this very moment
Sas — have just been too. Darn. Busy.
Loris — you win a pallid bust of Pallas!
NeedAPuppy — pshh, you’re telling me. *snork*
Of course, Hubble photographs have to manipulated to a certain degree, since most of what its cameras capture isn’t in visible wavelengths, so you wouldn’t see anything otherwise.
I love the Poe reference.
Funny.
Afghan hound, snerkle!
A similar veiw can be found of me, most weekday mornings. “Urgh it can’t be time to get up, the alarm clocks wrong”.
*sigh*
I <3 Nosevember.
did you write that poem? awesomeness, dude.
WOW! so impressed by your talent, NomTom! delightful poem and schnozzes.
have i told CO lately how much i love you? ;D
The question was “Do dogs Lurkensproing?”
Allow me to give a partial answer to this most important of unimportant questions/topics.
To lurkensproing an animal needs the ability to plot. If your dog can plot, then well, the first necessity is satisfied. Next said dog needs to be able to wait. IF said waiter is a dog, well then, number B has been accomplished. Now, the third and most crucial, the lurkesproinger needs to able to pounce upon the lurkensproingee at a clip such that the aforementioned lurkensproingee cannot defend it/her/him self. Now, I don’t know any dog [past puppy stage] who can do these, but there must be some plotting, waiting, pouncing full grown dogs out there. Jack Russel (pardon me–Parson Russel Terriers), perhaps? Although waiting just doesn’t fulfill the sterotype.
I love these noses and the poetry is sublime- or,then maybe higher than sublime
levelblime or even superblime!
NTMTOM, you rock. you rock HARD.
(love the nosicles, too)
Who ees dees NOMTOM?
Vare deed he come from?
He ees no dum dum.
He ees not humdrum.
He has redonksome
Poem chromosome.
NOMTOM ees da bomb bomb.
Spookeh pics.
Nosetradogmus!
love the poem! Especially the reference to Poe.
Nothin’ like some iambic tetrameter to thrill an English major to the soul.
I personally have never seen a full-grown dog pull off a successful, textbook luurkenschproing, but I suppose it could be done by some of the nimbler canines out there. I think the classic, four-door luurkenschproing falls primarily to cats. (I did see a ferret pull one off once. It was shocking.)
Either way, I don’t think any of the dogs in this post has a luurkenschproing on its mind. More like they’re perfecting the Asian martial art of Honk-Shu.
Katrina:
“And he cried out in ANGUISH:
‘Oh ye gods, who knows what it is to be lurking? Only he who is lurking nose.
Lurking nose
Lurking nose . . .”
Iphigenia in Brooklyn is my absolute favorite– I especially love the hemiola cadences in the first mvt. ALSO, the first Bargain Counter Tenor is a friend of mine.;)
Fan-frigging-tastic poem NTMTOM.
I think someone else may have said that too. . . .
Theresa, can he be my friend, too?
I’ve never heard the whole Iphigenia…much to my dismay.
PDQ came to Southern CT State University (my alma mater) in New Haven and I thought my laughterer would fall off. Oh, maybe PBS will wise-up and have him for a fund raiser! Big buckaroonies there, let me tell ya! You and I will each give $2, and, oh, yeah…
@Katrina: Schickele was a Juilliard classmate of the head of my undergrad music program, and he would come to our Saint Cecilia Days dressed up like St. Cecilia.
To here all of “Iphegenia”
Go here:
http://www.imeem.com/people/QZlzyps/music/4fOS-w63/chamber_orchestra_cantata_iphigenia_in_brooklyn_s_53162/
Great poem…great pics!
My favorite PDQ is “The Abduction of Figaro.” Any opera that opens with “Found a Peanut” is A-OK with me.
NOMTOM, marry me. You can come live in my familys castle in zee country. Vee have zee best vine…..
Theresa and AuntieMame- I am now compelled to revisit and upgrade my PDQ knowledge. Thanks!
Fantastic writing
Yay! I spies a Basset Nose! And a lovely Basset Backside too. My basset started nose-vember by being bitten by a wasp on his nose; traumatic! And twice as much nose….