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Send 'em round here, grass needs a cutting and a good feed!
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"Ann Ingram, who was woken up by the cows mooing, said: "It used to be sheep, and that's bad enough, but cows are a whole different kettle of fish."
OK...
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Talking of Wales, I bumped into PU, his wife and the pet pooch at his new pad.
s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt148/know_wun/wales/
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Love the hat PU.
Really suits you.
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You couldn't get in there wearing Cuban heels.
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Well really who would PU? So 70s...not even retro-chic dear boy.
:-)
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Actually, sheep would be much better - they clip off the grass very nicely, cows just rip it off - something to do with eating using teeth and ripping off grass with curled tongues. And of course, sheep fertiliser is somewhat neater than cow fertiliser!
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They are not Friesinans well behaved.:)
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Sheep carry ticks, cows carry flies. Take your pick.
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I believe there are a lot of sheep in Wales.
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Any more cow or sheep jokes?:)
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Dutchie - Are you in the Hull area?
Perhaps email via the Mods? Thanks
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>> Any more cow or sheep jokes?:)
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Most appropriate for our forum.....
A city man was tooling down a country road when his car sputtered to a complete stop near a field filled with cows. The driver, getting out to see what was the matter, noticed one of the cows looking at him. "I believe it's your radiator," said the cow. The man nearly jumped right out of his city slicker britches! He ran to the nearest farmhouse and knocked on the door. "A cow just gave me advice about my car!" he shouted, waving his arms franticly back toward the field. The farmer nonchalantly leaned out beyond the door frame to glance down the field. "The cow with two big black spots on it?" the farmer asked slowly. "Yes! Yes! That's the one!" the excited man replied. "Oh. Well, that's Ethel," the farmer said, turning back to the man. "Don't pay any attention to her. She doesn't know a thing about cars."
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>> Flymo?
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Hoo Flung Dung!
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Better on the lawn than here....strange cow, though
Nothing too graphic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibr7oC-rJM&NR=1
Oh dear !
Ted
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That looked like a zebra crossing :-)
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>> mad cows
more like resourceful.
food in the wild seems to be short too - our bird feeders are being mobbed by crow and magpie which haven't needed to bother with them before.
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I asked my Welsh friend how many sexual partners he'd had. He started counting then fell asleep!
MD
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As a local said to me when he was confronted with this hackneyed joke, he responds by saying "yep, we hump them and then they break our hearts by running away to England in a big lorry"
Last edited by: Pugugly on Wed 29 Jun 11 at 08:27
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Interestingly, not a single human spotted in the OP's link. Were they all at work?
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Reminds me of a few years a'back when we lived at Warleggan, woke one morning to see a similar scene to the OP - in our field!
A herd of Heifers had gotten in over night and were destroying my 'cultivated' 2 acres,
I thought long and hard about the situation, Farmer Yeo lived miles away, so, I sent my GSD in to do a 'Rowdy Yates' job on them,
Problem solved - they all legged it whence they came!
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Dutchie - Are you in the Hull area?
I've send a Email to the Webmaster (mods).Golf-Paul.
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There have been several instances of bulls escaping from the cattle market in Darlington, County Durham.
The animal is usually recaptured in an hour or two after it's done some window shopping in Marks and Spencer and Bhs.
But sometimes the escaped bull gets very irritable and bad tempered, and the police have to shoot it.
I think one was on the loose for six hours or more, you wouldn't think you could lose a bull for that long in the centre of a busy market town.
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email address received. Thank you Webmaster.
Dutchie, I will send a detailed email this evening. Thanks.
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>> Heifers had gotten in
What does 'gotten' mean?
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>> What does 'gotten' mean?
Past participle of get
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gotten
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And although regarded as an Americanism it has its roots in England - in the Fens IIRC
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>> >> What does 'gotten' mean?
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>> Past participle of get
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>> oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gotten
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It also states that the word is "North American".
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It's from Middle English, an example of how, in many cases, American English is a more original form of the English language (which is itself nothing but a mongrel dialect) than the version we speak here, which has been heavily influenced by continental European speech, particularly that of our German monarchy.
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English English is a sponge. It will steal, or make up any word variation as required. That's its beauty.
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As do most languages, Zero.
Le weekend, le shopping.
Welsh, of course, also absorbs a lot of English, however they made up their own word for microwave oven. Popty ping. My all time, number one favourite word(s) in the whole wide world. "Popty" istself is a proper Welsh word for an oven, adding the "Ping" is a work of genius.
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>> As do most languages, Zero.
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>> Le weekend, le shopping.
Diffrence is - they steal the ones we make up. They never make up new ones.
As for Welsh, its English and the just jumble up the letters.
Example - Ambulance - Ambiwlans
Because they cant bare the though of assimilating English words, less it dilute the language.
Mind I have more sympathy for the Welsh after my visit to Caernarfon castle. It reminded me that the poor sods had Charlie foisted on them as their Prince.
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Zero, don't you see that Enlish is an entirely stolen language in the first place? Take Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Norse.............mix well and leave to stew in Birmingham for 1000 years. Presto! A new language.
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>> Zero, don't you see that Enlish is an entirely stolen language in the first place?
>> Take Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Norse.............mix well and leave to stew in Birmingham for 1000
>> years. Presto! A new language.
I prefer to think of it as a global consolidation, enforced by military might and oppression.
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enforced by military might and oppression.
Mainly by the Americans !
I was thinking of this in Greece - It was witnessed often there, second language English speakers choosing it to communicate as it was their one common language.
I believe that Basque is the only language in Europe which has no connection with another...
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>> enforced by military might and oppression.
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>> Mainly by the Americans !
No, that's a direct consequence of Firstly Hollywood, then Rock and Roll, and finally the internet.
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It would probably shock Zero to know that Welsh was, apparently, considered as an Official Language in the USA at one point after the War of Independence - probably down to the fact that 15 of the 17 signatories were of Welsh descent including Thomas Jefferson....allegedly of course.
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>> It would probably shock Zero to know that Welsh was, apparently, considered as an Official
>> Language in the USA at one point after the War of Independence
It was nearly french, but now its mostly spanish.
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>> It was nearly french, but now its mostly spanish.
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I believe I remember hearing that German once almost became the first official language of the USA. I wonder what implications that near miss would have had for the world come the 20th century.
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Not a lot really, the US Aristocracy at that stage were mainly WASPs - they would have skinned us just the same as they did in WW2 (or as Churchill said not just skinned us but flayed us to the bone) only they'd have said "Danke" instead of thank you. Contrary to popular myth the Americans didn't help us out for the sake of it. Between 1939 and Dec 1941 they not only took many of our foreign ports (in exchange for 50 worn out destroyers) they took all our foreign exchange and gold in exchange for poorly developed and built sub-standard or obsolete equipment. Even at 1940 prices it cost us 7000,000,000 pounds. In return we lifted them out of an deep recession and on the road to a super-boom. Special relationship my a***.
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Money is only money. If it bought us our freedom from Nazi invasion then whatever it cost was worth it.
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That is a positive way to look at it. The truth is if we and the other Great Powers hadn't flayed Germany after WW1 - Hitler may have just been known as a cowboy painter and decorator to his local trading standards.....lessons of history are not learnt though, the Germans (and the French) have just burdened the Greeks in the same way....let's hope they haven't got a Hitler character waiting in the wings.
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...the Germans (and the French) have just burdened the Greeks in the same way...
Trying to make a country pay for military aggression which killed millions is a little different from trying to make a country pay its debts.
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The end result is much the same and can lead to war, Turkey are sharpening the knives as we speak.
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...The end result is much the same and can lead to war...
If the Greeks kick off there will be an awful lot of smashed plates.
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When the Euro was first created, I remember expressing an opinion to friends that it would likely end up causing a major military conflict somewhere in Europe, if not across Europe. I was laughed out of the pub.
They're not laughing any more.
Thank heavens we stayed out of the Euro. No thanks to Tony Blair, the worst leader this country has ever had.
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Joking apart - the Balkans and the southern flank are always ripe for conflict. Glad to see the Greeks are not exactly slashing their defence spending..
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13940431
Picked up on the BBC World Service that Greece and Macedonia are arguing....tempers get frayed in times like these, and Greece is a NATO member that's traditionally not scared of getting stuck in, so we and other NATO countries could get dragged in. (sorry pessimistic mood today).
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...tempers get frayed in times like these...
Often happens in hot weather, which is not an entirely flippant remark.
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Correct, PU. Academics have tried, and failed to link it to all sorts, even Native American languages.
I reckon it's a relic from before the ice age, a remnant of an original European population mostly driven out by the ice age.
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Another example is Cryno Ddisg (Compact Disc) which works with the abbreviation CD as it does in English.
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>>What does 'gotten' mean?
Hehe! - tis corrrnish for got ... ere!! it passed my ieSpell OK :)
>>It also states that the word is "North American". <<
Say n'more!
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>> Interestingly, not a single human spotted in the OP's link. Were they all at work?
No, they had all mooved.
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To the udder side of town.
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Oh come on - people are making a real veal of this thread!
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Well PU, they are milking it!
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEPTjLl2Af8
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Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, I once had a J Carroll Naish with Dennis Thatcher. A well respected rugby referee.
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>> To the udder side of town.
Further afield than that. Jersey I herd.
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Time to post this again I think. From Pam Ayres, or someone similar and nearly as good:
In a field near 'Uddersfield
There lived a cow who would not yield.
The reason why she would not yield?
She did not like her udders feeled.
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Canoodling with a now ex in the back of the car in a local beauty spot one night a few years back, we felt a bump, and the car moved. After the usual "earth move" gags, it happened again, and shortly afterwards, again. Furious at the interruption, I made myself decent, and wrenched open the car door ready to give whoever it was a piece of my mind, only to be confronted by a about a hundred tons of prime beef wandering aimlessly round the car park. The offending individual animal stood a few yards away, staring vacantly at me.
I bumped into the ex quite recently in the street of my home town, and it was actually the second or third topic of conversation. We can still laugh about it.
Stupid creatures.
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>> I bumped into the ex quite recently in the street of my home town, and
>> it was actually the second or third topic of conversation.
If the first was the weather, then I don't rate your performance!
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>> If the first was the weather, then I don't rate your performance!
Just a few pleasantries first. Coming right out with "remember that time we were going at it and those cows turned up" somehow seemed a little inappropriate after all this time. :-)
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even so, if she can only remember the cows....
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Must have been a quickie.;)
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C'mon guys, it's hard to compete with a random herd of cows interrupting the proceedings for sheer memorability. ;-)
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mad cows - PhilW
