Le Mops: Pork 'n' Beans for da Soul

I thought i’d post dis photo of Le Mops…..one of those lil aliens will be mah new brother. I’m come to accept this, but don’t think I’m giving up mah side of the bed. Mah mama also said I should stop calling Le Mops an alien, but until I see fer sure, I don’t think he’s a pug….I mean, he doesn’t look like me! Do you think so?

I’ve been getting ready for Le Mops, moving furniture and setting stuff up. I gots ta hide all mah monkees, ya know. Well, I threw out mah back. I’ve gots sum compression or sumptin. The alien baby isn’t even here yet, and I gots a bad back already! I’m on 30 days of bed rest and got sum steroids ta take. They are chewable, but I’m not tellin MaMa that so I get lots of cheese. I love cheese. The house is almost ready for Le Mops tho! Maybe he can be trained to get me mah food. From here on out, mah MaMa is going to move the dog beds.

It all started when someone called Chewie “Le Mops” a couple years ago.  A quick search online proved that Mops was the word for “pug” in several languages, including Swedish and German. (Doguillo is pug in Spanish!) It was a French boy who called Chewie Le Mops, and it seemed that many french speakers use the word mops instead of Carlin for pug! Who knew?

Later, we learned that Mops was the name of Marie Antoinette’s pug in the Sofia Coppola movie. Well, really, I found the story of Marie Antoinette’s pug, which may have been named almost anything and later learned about the movie. What is for sure is that her dog was a Mops (a pug!). Marie Antoinette actually had several pugs. With no definite reference to the pugs’  names, it seems that Sofia Coppola has made Mops famous! We still haven’t seen the movie at our house. Does anyone recommend it? Anyone?

Regardless of the rather muddled etymology, Le Mops became somewhat of an inside joke between me and Ricky. We’d occasionally call Chewie Le Mops before that was replaced by Puguillo. I mistakingly heard a little boy at Disneyland who, I am now am almost positive, was actually saying Doguillo. While looking for a new puppy, we called the future pug, Le Mops. When it came time to pick a name, I asked Ricky, “What do you want to name the puppy?”

He looked at me, and seriously said, “Le Mops.”

And so it goes…

Mah MaMa showed me some videos of the aliens again last night. She sez they are Le Mops, and his brothers and sisters, and that they are in SeaAttle.

I dunno where SeaAttle is, but mah MaMa sez I get to go to daycare while her and the Ricky Daddy go get Le Mops. Right now, the aliens aren’t ready to leave their Mommy’s house.

I bought Le Mops a new carrier. Well, mah MaMa said I had to.

Really, I thought I could use it mahself, but it’s too small fer me. Le Mops better be little.

This is mah MaMa and the Ricky. They love me so much and I love them. Le Mops will prolly like them too.

This is PaPa Lizard, who is named Ziggy Stardust. There are also 6 other lizards named Gilly (MaMa), weird, spider, mars, special man and voodoo. I just call them Weird and Gilly and the Spiders. They eat crickets, which escape and try to eat mah food.

Mah MaMa and the Ricky has been talking about this Le Mops for a while now, but I don’t know what exactly it is. I found this photo that I think is evidence. These little aliens I think are called Le Mops. I hope not all of dem are coming to mah home. MaMa makes it sound like just one of Le Mops, but I’m not so sure. I don’t need no invaders, not even one. I should hide mah monkees. Who do you think Le Mops is?