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June 28, 2009
Sunday afternoon musing [Darleen Click]
12:45 pm, 90 degrees and the guy in the cowsuit outside the Chick-fil-A is not waving at the passing traffic with much enthusiasm. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere about Congress and Obama’s plans for us all, but right now the microwave just beeped on my nachos and I’m going to notch the air conditioning colder two more degrees. 29 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=15093 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by phreshone on 6/28 @ 2:19 pm #
Think is isn’t enthusiastic now… Wait until he figures out that his Chick-fil-A isn’t even open on a Sunday… Oh, and he” be taxed for flatulence when the final cap-n-tax is released…
Comment by Salt Lick on 6/28 @ 2:27 pm #
I give Darleen a pass on the Sunday closing, assuming she wrote metaphorically about a pretty neat corporation.
Comment by Matt on 6/28 @ 2:33 pm #
I respect those people. Those suit guys are doing the work other americans wont do.
Comment by dash rendar on 6/28 @ 2:38 pm #
Funny how we can have little nuclear dynamos in our kitchens but not for general purposes.
Comment by dash rendar on 6/28 @ 2:39 pm #
GE
Comment by Kevin B on 6/28 @ 2:59 pm #
Darleen, do you have a federal permit for that extra two degrees colder on your AC?
I didn’t think so. The Klimate Kops will be round shortly.
Comment by JHo on 6/28 @ 3:04 pm #
They shoot horses, don’t they?
Comment by BumperStickerist on 6/28 @ 3:17 pm #
Speaking of men in cow’s suits, I – for one – refuse to allow my son to watch the animated series “Back atthe Barnyard” because it features a male cow.
Not a bull.
But a cow, with udders, that is masculine in voice, manner, and deed.
It’s a guy, who’s a cow, which is … wrong. From an animation standpoint.
Cows are girls, Bulls are boys, Bugs Bunny is male, unless it’s in his interest to pretend to be a girl, which is okay because it serves the plot.
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Comment by sdferr on 6/28 @ 3:17 pm #
Bucatini alla Carbonara?
Dont’ even start your water boiling, that stuff is going to be right out under the new Waxman-Markey regime.
Comment by B Moe on 6/28 @ 3:20 pm #
Do you know there is not a non-gender specific name for a single head of cattle? Or if there is, I am unaware of it.
Comment by sdferr on 6/28 @ 3:24 pm #
There goes one Bos primigenius taurus wouldn’t do B Moe?
Comment by Rusty on 6/28 @ 3:40 pm #
10
a beef. a steer.
Comment by B Moe on 6/28 @ 3:48 pm #
A steer is a castrated bull. I guess beef could be singular, I have never thought of it as such.
Comment by McGehee on 6/28 @ 7:25 pm #
Dogie, as in “git along li’l”…?
Comment by B Moe on 6/28 @ 8:16 pm #
Nope. Dogies are motherless calves. I think it is because of what cattle are used for, dairy and beef production, it is useless info to not know the particulars. Horses are primarily used for transportation, and it mostly doesn’t matter if it is a mare, philly, gelding or stud, it will still serve the purpose, so a horse is a horse. But it always necessary to know the age and gender of a head of cattle to know if it will serve your purpose. That is the only explanation I can come up with, any way.
Comment by The Monster on 6/28 @ 8:20 pm #
The word “cattle” is plural. Closest I can think of is “a head of cattle”, as B Moe used above, which really sounds wrong.
Comment by Jess on 6/28 @ 8:53 pm #
You could maybe call it an auroch.
Comment by Joe on 6/28 @ 8:59 pm #
No Air Conditioning in the brave new world of Obamanomics. Only in thise hot states that vote correctly.
Comment by dicentra on 6/28 @ 9:33 pm #
In the groundbreaking Cow and Chicken, Cow was the girl child and chicken the boy.
Do you know there is not a non-gender specific name for a single head of cattle? Or if there is, I am unaware of it.
Bovine!
Comment by Russ. Just Russ. on 6/28 @ 10:56 pm #
“Ox” might do as the singular. “Kine” is archaic; I’m not sure if it’s gender specific.
“Bovine” might work, too, but its dual-use as an adjective may tend to confuse.
Comment by SBP on 6/28 @ 10:59 pm #
An ox is a castrated male used as a draft animal (a steer is a young castrated male intended for meat purposes).
Kine is a plural, I think.
Comment by geoffb on 6/28 @ 11:17 pm #
Ok, Cow is the singular generic term. Dairy cow is for milk. Cow-boys didn’t herd dairy cows they ran cattle for beef, meat, but still they are Cow-boys.
You can yell at me but this is from my wife who used to be a corporate librarian for the NCBA, National Cattleman’s Beef Association.
Still in the cartoon if the cow has an udder it is a dairy cow and female no matter what.
Comment by peter jackson on 6/28 @ 11:30 pm #
Your metaphor is really funny Darleen. And the more I think about it, the funnier it gets. It was 102° here today. Is it a cow suit…OR A DEATH SENTENCE??
Comment by B Moe on 6/29 @ 6:51 am #
They would be far too polite to yell at her, but if your wife referred to a steer or a bull as a “cow” in front of any beef farmer I ever knew she would get a very patronizing smile and not be taken very seriously.
Comment by John on 6/29 @ 7:38 am #
I thought Truett Cathy made sure all of his Chick-fil-A restaurants were closed for the Sabbath — are you sure this wasn’t just some rogue cow outside on Sunday causing trouble when he knew nobody would be around?
Comment by geoffb on 6/29 @ 9:39 am #
I had more links but wordpress didn’t like that.
I understand what you are saying there. However notice the term “beef farmer” as opposed to what? Dairy farmer. There are beef cattle and dairy cattle.
The dictionary has both usages.
“Cow
n.
1. The mature female of cattle of the genus Bos.
2. The mature female of other large animals, such as whales, elephants, or moose.
3. A domesticated bovine of either sex or any age.”
I will refer also to this web site.
Ft. Worth Cowtown Marathon, notice the logo.
We have slid in modern times into the habit of using the 1st definition but the other remains and is seen in the names above and also, as I said before, the term Cowboy, not Beefboy which I suspect the beef farmer would find offensive too.
This started on the cartoon referred to in #8. If it has an udder it is female and should not be voiced and treated as male. Unless the Nature experiments (gender is a social construction) people now in the cattle business too.
Comment by B Moe on 6/29 @ 11:26 am #
You are still missing my point, Geoff. If I refer to a horse, it is understood to be nongender specific. Same with a goat, a rabbit, a dog or most any other domestic animal. The word cow may have come to mean that in common usage, but it isn’t the same thing because of its primary meaning of a mature, fertile female.
And trust me, when a dairy farmer refers to a cow, that is exactly what he means.
Comment by geoffb on 6/29 @ 12:24 pm #
B moe. I’m not questioning what a dairy farmer of a beef farmer (used to be, I believe called a rancher or a cattleman) says. The definition is there and the words “Cowtown” and “Cowboy” evidence that there is a word for “A domesticated bovine of either sex or any age” and cow is that word.
We shall for my part agree to disagree. More, much more, important things going on like the Michael Jackson fallout weirdness.
Comment by Grammatiknazi on 6/29 @ 3:26 pm #
I’ve eaten in one on Saturday, so that can’t be true.
Oh, you mean Sunday. The Sabbath is Saturday (starting at sundown Friday, ending at sundown Saturday). I don’t who got the idea started that Sunday is the Sabbath. It’s The Lord’s Day. (In Spanish, Sunday is “Domingo”, and Saturday is “Sabado”, as in “Sabado Gigante”.)