Battle Royale: Scallywag the Dog*

So by now we've probably jumped a whole school/pod/gaggle/really-what-is-it? of sharks, but that's okay. Let's just sit back and watch the spectacle: our metaphorical Evel Knievel of a series tumbles over its handlebars with a terrifying crunch, fracturing every bone its body, but somehow—miraculously—staggers to its strangely askew feet and through its shattered, bloody teeth murmurs, "I will ride again!"

Round three (…ish. I think…):

• squelch
• wag
• scallywag
• saucy
• sauced
• drizzle
• falafel
• scrawl
• walrus
• rascal
• gallop
• wiggle
• cagy walls
• scallion
• scullduggery
• huzzah!

Place your vote.

* We cheeky-blogger types are supposed to slip lots of puns and wordplay into the titles of our posts. Check! But the puns and wordplay are supposed to make some sort of sense. Oops! "'Scally…wag the dog?' Alright—'wag the dog'—I see it, but what's the joke? Is he referencing the movie? Is it a Dustin Hoffman thing? I don't get it...." Forgive me, I have failed you. Now, as honor dictates, I will impale myself on my laptop. (Unless you can figure out some plausible angle to make it work, and you can whipser it in my ear, and I can say "huzzah!" and proclaim it to the world, and my cheeky-blogger cred will be restored, and I will give you 50% of my immense Slimbolala royalties, and you will be happy, and I will be happy, and we will sing from the rooftops, and all will be beautiful.)