Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
On the subject of the intelligence of dogs I recommend the book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

I did offer my chums their money back if they did not think it was a brilliantly enjoyable book but I fear if I offered the same on the Foum all those lurkers might appear and abuse my generous nature.

You know what Forum lurkers are like.
I've just ordered it. Thanks for the recommendation.

That reminds me of one of my favourite passages from Good Omens, which thankfully the internet has provided:

“Two of them lurked in the ruined graveyard. Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded “Born to Lurk,” these two would have been on the album cover. They had been lurking in the fog for an hour now, but they had been pacing themselves and could lurk for the rest of the night if necessary, with still enough sullen menace left for a final burst of lurking around dawn.”