"Martha" mines the crusty Mrs. Donald for giggles before Goose, as she calls it, invades her solitude.
She eventually seems happy to let them swing her by the ankles, before goosing them with friendly mischief of her own.
Tied at the end of the 1978 season, the Yankees won their one-game American League East playoff at Fenway Park on home runs by Bucky Dent and Reggie Jackson before Goose Gossage got Carl Yastrzemski to pop up for the final out.
Well, this week, it's what the kids were doing years and years before Goose suited up... Could it be that the Mickey Mantle actually invented the bat flip back when Gossage was just a glimmer in his dad's eye?
And then the Nazi said, "You're just a little bitch" before goose-stepping off into the night.
It was like watching someone scatter a handful of sawdust before some geese, only for the geese to enthusiastically peck it all up while rubbing their bellies and smiling, like geese generally don't.
"The trick is that you have to have the dog there on a regular basis before the geese learn to stay away," Mr. Jacobs said, "and even after they learn and you don't have the dog there for a while they tend to come back".
According to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown in their magisterial The Taste Of Britain Fourth Estatee), the flocks were fattened on stubble after the harvest, before being driven to goose fairs in Nottingham and London - Poultry, a street in the centre of the City of London, was the focus of the trade, which gives rise to all kinds of unkind thoughts in these troubled times.
We paddled past the fat pads of lotus leaves, banks lined with longan trees, mooching water buffalo, riverside graveyards and flurries of fleeing geese, before emerging into a flooded canyon of sheer limestone walls.
Or even kill them if you like....Kill the geese before they down another NY jet".
