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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 12:57 pm |
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Pappy I think the Loco weed has already been found.
Morning All!! It is gorgeous outside today. Read the N@R from cover to cover. The article on the events in Virginia Tech is very well written and horrifying. I wonder if we will ever have any idea why he did it? I guess there is no explanation for mental illness and it appeared he was not communicating with any one so there was no real clue of what he was thinking.
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 01:50 pm |
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Mornin', all. Pappy's lookin' for'ard to seein' the Great Bovine Experiment carried out an' in print with pitchers! I agree with Sandra. This is serious scientifical experimentation! (Make sure the pasture don't have no loco weed in it.)
Hey, I've got an idea!! (Yeah, it hurts my head on the rare occasions this happens!!) 
I think this "bovine expereiment" could be incorporated into the Founder's Day celebrations!! We just need to find someone who'll loan out (or rent cheaply) several cows. Then put them inside a fairly good-sized enclosure and charge people to go in and lie down to see what will happen. Word will spread like wildfire about how weird/cool/scary it is to be lying on the ground and have all these cows encircle you and stare into your face! Brilliant, right??? ♥♥♥
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 02:03 pm |
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macca wrote: I think this "bovine expereiment" could be incorporated into the Founder's Day celebrations!! We just need to find someone who'll loan out (or rent cheaply) several cows. Then put them inside a fairly good-sized enclosure and charge people to go in and lie down to see what will happen. Word will spread like wildfire about how weird/cool/scary it is to be lying on the ground and have all these cows encircle you and stare into your face! Brilliant, right??? ♥♥♥
While I am not an expert on cows or cow behavior, I would venture to guess that a herd of cows in their own cow pasture, which they know and are familiar with, are going to behave differently than cows moved into a smaller fenced pen away from familiar surroundings. In a pasture setting, cows can simply ignore human folly and human behaviors and move to other areas within a pasture where they feel safe, while in a more confined space, they may well react differently to outside movements and sounds, and those reactions could be harmful to not only the cows but to humans.
I would certainly check with my insurance agent and the local Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals before engaging in a more public display with cows in a more cramped and confined area.
Remember, the Oak Ridge Horseshow used to have the popular noontime calf scramble for many years, until it was abandoned several years ago over issues of safety for the calfs and teenage calf scramblers. As a teenager, I won 2nd place in the Oak Ridge calf scramble way back in 1964. So I guess I do know a little something about cows after all.
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 02:14 pm |
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All this talk about laying down in a cow pasture has made me curious. Cracker, in the name of science (and because I'm such a good sport), I will go with you to do the experiment. I would even volunteer to be the one to lay down, but you have to promise to protect me in case the cows decide to stampede or something. If they are that bunch on the Chick-Fil-A commercials (a bunch of pretty intelligent bovines, if I do say so), they might even make a slide show with my picture on it and an ad campaign saying something about how I might make a tasty meal (which is not true).
Sandra, recall that the Lord's Prayer does include this line:
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 02:53 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote:
macca wrote: I think this "bovine expereiment" could be incorporated into the Founder's Day celebrations!! We just need to find someone who'll loan out (or rent cheaply) several cows. Then put them inside a fairly good-sized enclosure and charge people to go in and lie down to see what will happen. Word will spread like wildfire about how weird/cool/scary it is to be lying on the ground and have all these cows encircle you and stare into your face! Brilliant, right??? ♥♥♥
While I am not an expert on cows or cow behavior, I would venture to guess that a herd of cows in their own cow pasture, which they know and are familiar with, are going to behave differently than cows moved into a smaller fenced pen away from familiar surroundings. In a pasture setting, cows can simply ignore human folly and human behaviors and move to other areas within a pasture where they feel safe, while in a more confined space, they may well react differently to outside movements and sounds, and those reactions could be harmful to not only the cows but to humans.
I would certainly check with my insurance agent and the local Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals before engaging in a more public display with cows in a more cramped and confined area.
Remember, the Oak Ridge Horseshow used to have the popular noontime calf scramble for many years, until it was abandoned several years ago over issues of safety for the calfs and teenage calf scramblers. As a teenager, I won 2nd place in the Oak Ridge calf scramble way back in 1964. So I guess I do know a little something about cows after all.
Oh, Jimbo!! You don't REALLY think anyone's going to do this just because I suggested it, do you??? I'm just making "much ado about nothin'!" 
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 03:01 pm |
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| Hey, Macca, if you write, "I think everybody should give Pappy one millyun dollars on Founders Day," I'll split it with you! Hee hee! Brilliant!
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 03:01 pm |
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macca wrote: macca wrote: Brilliant, right??? ♥♥♥
Oh, Jimbo!! You don't REALLY think anyone's going to do this just because I suggested it, do you??? I'm just making "much ado about nothin'!"
You're right Macca, I don't think anyone with good sense would be interested. But the problem is, there are lots of folks running around without good sense.
I basically was just responding to your question about 'brilliant' and that's all.
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 03:10 pm |
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| "I think everybody should give Pappy one millyun dollars on Founders Day." ♥♥♥
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 03:12 pm |
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Sandra, recall that the Lord's Prayer does include this line:
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
I b'lieve that's the 23rd Psalm, ain't it? "My cup runneth over..."
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 03:16 pm |
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| Much obliged, Macca. Hee hee! I'll get the young'un that knows how to count to he'p us split it up.
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 04:52 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Jim Flynt wrote:
Sandra, recall that the Lord's Prayer does include this line:
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
I b'lieve that's the 23rd Psalm, ain't it? "My cup runneth over..."
Pappy, you are so right and I was so wrong. It is the 23rd Psalm. I better go back to reading my Bible.
Nor by any means did I mean to infer that Cracker is an infidel simply because she is afraid of staring those cows in the face while out laying in green pastures.
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 05:08 pm |
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| "I think everybody should give Pappy one millyun dollars on Founders Day." ♥♥♥
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 06:13 pm |
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macca wrote:
FatPappy wrote:
Mornin', all. Pappy's lookin' for'ard to seein' the Great Bovine Experiment carried out an' in print with pitchers! I agree with Sandra. This is serious scientifical experimentation! (Make sure the pasture don't have no loco weed in it.)
Hey, I've got an idea!! (Yeah, it hurts my head on the rare occasions this happens!!)
I think this "bovine expereiment" could be incorporated into the Founder's Day celebrations!! We just need to find someone who'll loan out (or rent cheaply) several cows. Then put them inside a fairly good-sized enclosure and charge people to go in and lie down to see what will happen. Word will spread like wildfire about how weird/cool/scary it is to be lying on the ground and have all these cows encircle you and stare into your face! Brilliant, right??? ♥♥♥
macca wrote:
"I think everybody should give Pappy one millyun dollars on Founders Day." ♥♥♥
I think macca may be on to something here -- in both cases!
If the Community Day at Vulcan (which raised $7,800 for GSM) and the Stokesdale Elementary Spring Festival yesterday (which raised $6,000 for PTA) are any indication of how successful these events can be, just think of how much you could bring in with the cow pasture!! Maybe Pappy could sit there with a big ol' jug and collect the "fees" and we could pipe in some kind of subliminal message about giving him $$$. 
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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2007 06:30 pm |
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Vicki White-Lawrence wrote:
I think macca may be on to something here -- in both cases!
If the Community Day at Vulcan (which raised $7,800 for GSM) and the Stokesdale Elementary Spring Festival yesterday (which raised $6,000 for PTA) are any indication of how successful these events can be, just think of how much you could bring in with the cow pasture!! Maybe Pappy could sit there with a big ol' jug and collect the "fees" and we could pipe in some kind of subliminal message about giving him $$$.
Vicki, that's some serious MOO-la you're talkin' 'bout. Hee hee. With a head as big as mine, I got the right hat fer collectin' money, that's fer sure. I think this plan's comin' together!
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Posted: Apr 23rd, 2007 01:45 am |
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critical fire danger 4/23/07 . Temps in the 80's, humidity dropping to 20 %, winds up to 30 mph. Please no outside burning tomorrow.
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