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Out of Order

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Feb 9, 2011
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Udderly, (very) In-ter-est-ing article!!

I was kind of hoping the reporter could have milked more information out of Blosom, but the picture speaks for itself.

Worlds+Tallest+Cow.jpg
 

Out of Order

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Feb 9, 2011
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All I can say is if God didn't want us to eat beef he would have made them so they could run faster (or for the unbelievers... evolution would have adapted them to run faster). We don’t’ eat much Gazelle, do we? :)

Could be or perhaps HE wouldn't have made beef so tasty............on a bun, with tomato, lettuce, pickles and ketchup............oh................
 

Grandpa

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All I can say is if God didn't want us to eat beef he would have made them so they could run faster (or for the unbelievers... evolution would have adapted them to run faster). We don’t’ eat much Gazelle, do we? :)

I won't try to butter anyone up. Here comes the nerdy guy to horn in and spoil the milk of the banter.

Our cattle are a product of artificial selection, as opposed to natural selection. Humans directed their development. Their progenitors were first domesticated 10,000 years or so ago, and the tasty and mild-mannered and milk-producing and longhorns and Limousin and Herefords and so on have been a result of our taming some of the aurochs, much like all of our dogs, from Irish wolfhounds to toy chihuahuas, have been bred from their original wolf lines.

You herd me right. That's the meat of it.
 

Out of Order

Sign of the Times
Feb 9, 2011
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Our cattle are a product of artificial selection, as opposed to natural selection. Humans directed their development. Their progenitors were first domesticated 10,000 years or so ago, and the tasty and mild-mannered and milk-producing and longhorns and Limousin and Herefords and so on have been a result of our taming some of the aurochs, much like all of our dogs, from Irish wolfhounds to toy chihuahuas, have been bred from their original wolf lines.


Well, that's got me buffaloed...........
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
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I won't try to butter anyone up. Here comes the nerdy guy to horn in and spoil the milk of the banter.

Our cattle are a product of artificial selection, as opposed to natural selection. Humans directed their development. Their progenitors were first domesticated 10,000 years or so ago, and the tasty and mild-mannered and milk-producing and longhorns and Limousin and Herefords and so on have been a result of our taming some of the aurochs, much like all of our dogs, from Irish wolfhounds to toy chihuahuas, have been bred from their original wolf lines.

You herd me right. That's the meat of it.

LOL... Well then god shouldn't have made us so smart I figure. (I bet you're a hoot when someone tells a knock knock jokes. :))

You should have added "Sheldon" to the list of your choices on the change of screen name thread. ;)

Ya know, I've almost come to expect after I post something... Hoss telling me why I'm wrong, Grandpa giving us a history lesson, Out of Order posting something completely off topic, a funny pic from GNTLGNT, and if it has to do with meat -- Morgan's emoji of the little piggy running away in terror.

(No malice... Just having some fun with ya'll.)
 

Grandpa

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LOL... Well then god shouldn't have made us so smart I figure. (I bet you're a hoot when someone tells a knock knock jokes. :))

You should have added "Sheldon" to the list of your choices on the change of screen name thread. ;)

Ya know, I've almost come to expect after I post something... Hoss telling me why I'm wrong, Grandpa giving us a history lesson, Out of Order posting something completely off topic, a funny pic from GNTLGNT, and if it has to do with meat -- Morgan's emoji of the little piggy running away in terror.

(No malice... Just having some fun with ya'll.)
No malice taken. It's part of my disorder. And now, tragically and annoyingly enough, my disorder that compels me to (over)explain things compels me to (over)explain my disorder.

I like to pretend, if only to myself, that I'm science-minded, so when something is offered that is scientifically inaccurate or silly, I'm required to set the science of it straight.

This sometimes has negative consequences (I mean, other than the normal crushing boredom), as seen in the Great Email Fracas of 1998, when I was part of a group that was getting stories and aphorisms from a friend who tended to lean hard right, and one of them was a pro-creation (as opposed to procreation, which is usually something different) or maybe anti-science missive, and in it was the seemingly harmless coy little question: "If apes evolved into humans, why are there still apes?"

Well, the question was so ignorant and meaningless in its approach and intention that, in a moment of indiscretion, I felt compelled to hit Reply All, point that question out, and say, "For the same reason that even though dogs came from wolves, we still have wolves. If you need me to, I can detail that out more." To that, his response was, "I was just trying to say something funny. What's wrong with you?" To that, my response was, "My apologies. When it's so far from reality, I don't realize it's funny." And at that point, the Reply Alls started pouring in, excoriating him or me, and with more than one person interjecting, "Y'know, I really wish you'd just stop sending these out."

But I'd like to distinguish from Sheldon, in that Sheldon is an overbearing know-it-all out of his need for intellectual superiority and domination. I have no such allusions, or illusions, about my intellect. I just am trying to share stray bits of knowledge that I have and too often don't know when to stop.

As evidenced by this very post. And now, having filled the requirements of my disorder, I'll shut up. For a a little while, anyway.
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
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129,998
Poconos, PA
No malice taken. It's part of my disorder. And now, tragically and annoyingly enough, my disorder that compels me to (over)explain things compels me to (over)explain my disorder.

I like to pretend, if only to myself, that I'm science-minded, so when something is offered that is scientifically inaccurate or silly, I'm required to set the science of it straight.

This sometimes has negative consequences (I mean, other than the normal crushing boredom), as seen in the Great Email Fracas of 1998, when I was part of a group that was getting stories and aphorisms from a friend who tended to lean hard right, and one of them was a pro-creation (as opposed to procreation, which is usually something different) or maybe anti-science missive, and in it was the seemingly harmless coy little question: "If apes evolved into humans, why are there still apes?"

Well, the question was so ignorant and meaningless in its approach and intention that, in a moment of indiscretion, I felt compelled to hit Reply All, point that question out, and say, "For the same reason that even though dogs came from wolves, we still have wolves. If you need me to, I can detail that out more." To that, his response was, "I was just trying to say something funny. What's wrong with you?" To that, my response was, "My apologies. When it's so far from reality, I don't realize it's funny." And at that point, the Reply Alls started pouring in, excoriating him or me, and with more than one person interjecting, "Y'know, I really wish you'd just stop sending these out."

But I'd like to distinguish from Sheldon, in that Sheldon is an overbearing know-it-all out of his need for intellectual superiority and domination. I have no such allusions, or illusions, about my intellect. I just am trying to share stray bits of knowledge that I have and too often don't know when to stop.

As evidenced by this very post. And now, having filled the requirements of my disorder, I'll shut up. For a a little while, anyway.
Now THAT was a Grade A prime reply! :)

(Thought you above all people would have caught my mistake in post #31. I noted cow teeth, but posted a pic of horse teeth. So either you're slipping... or just feeling sorry for me. ;))
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
22,864
129,998
Poconos, PA
But I'd like to distinguish from Sheldon, in that Sheldon is an overbearing know-it-all out of his need for intellectual superiority and domination. I have no such allusions, or illusions, about my intellect. I just am trying to share stray bits of knowledge that I have and too often don't know when to stop.

Beg pardon then... my mistake. I should have said "Wolowitz." :)