Winston!

My favorite movie of all time is called The Longest Day. It came out in 1962 and it is about the D-Day invasion of Normandy during WWII. It was this movie that peaked my love for studying history. I then would watch religiously The History Channel every day after I came home from school. I still remember coming home from high school every day and turning the television on to watch Great Chefs of the World and then turning it to The History Channel to watch Greatest Blunders in History.  Food and history are a winning combination.

Anyway, there is a scene from the movie The Longest day with a beach master who was called Commander Colin Maud of the Royal Navy. He was directing the movement of the troops on the beach to move inland against the Germans. What is great about this scene is how he had a small, chunky companion by his side. It was an English Bulldog. Commander Maud named his companion Winston. Obviously after his Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

Ever since this scene, I have been determined to get an English Bulldog and name it Winston some time in my future. Now this brings me to the real point of what I'm getting at. I read this morning on MSN a slideshow titled What His Dog Says About Him. The last slide mentions the bulldog. This is what it says:

A bulldog man is usually a meat-and-potatoes, football-every-Sunday kind of guy. He's also the kind of guy who may let his underbite-baring, kinda-funny-looking dog grab Cheetos straight from his mouth. One might find that a bit gross . . . or totally endearing.

They nailed it!