Cattle

fbharjo commented on the list cattle

see discussion at galenious. lettuce, milk it for all its worth! a wide ranging roundup!

July 25, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list cattle

agistor.

December 6, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list cattle

From a 1934 New Yorker magazine article discussing Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: "Miss Stein likes to look at rocks and cows in the intervals of her writing. The two ladies drive around in their Ford till they come to a good spot. Then Miss Stein gets out and sits on a campstool with pencil and pad, and Miss Toklas fearlessly switches a cow into her line of vision. If the cow doesn’t seem to fit in with Miss Stein’s mood, the ladies get into the car and drive on to another cow. When the great lady has an inspiration, she writes quickly, for about fifteen minutes. But often she just sits there, looking at cows and not turning a wheel."

February 17, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

Wasn't Gertrude Stein famous for saying "A cow is a cow is a cow" in her absolutely bovine sequel to Sacred Emily?

February 17, 2011

hernesheir commented on the list cattle

Perhaps the "cow-is-a-cow-is-a-cow" quote reflects a time when Stein's artistic (perhaps drawing upon Cubist and other art movements) thinking about representing the essence of a thing was very present.

The pronouncement "A cow is a cow is a cow" would certainly astound my friend Freddy Wood who has farmed and ranched for over 50 years. He and his wife know all of the cows and heifers in their large herd by name, year-over-year, and treat them as individuals until such time that they are sold.

February 17, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

I keep trying to come up with some pun about cattle and roses--but the only thing stuck in my head is the old joke my grandfather would say when we caught the aroma of a feedlot: "Mmm. Smells like money."

February 18, 2011

fbharjo commented on the list cattle

No wonder Alice resorted to putting a specific grass into her brownies! Otherwise it would have been too thorny?? Those brownies could be called cocoa-poco-loco weed, indeed and without 4 roses! Money is an abstraction that still smells horrible.

February 18, 2011

sionnach commented on the list cattle

I just recently learned that the "Happy California Cows" ad that runs so frequently on TV was, in fact, filmed in New Zealand, with NZ cows. I feel deceived, disillusioned, and disappointed.

February 18, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

New Zealand is New Zealand is....

February 18, 2011

reesetee commented on the list cattle

The Stein-Toklases were pips. I wonder whether they'd have preferred New Zealand cows?

February 18, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

The Stein-Toklases were Stein-Toklases were....

February 18, 2011

bilby commented on the list cattle

I heard a man say catalyst today and he made it sound like cattle-ist. And he was a cattle farmer. So there.

June 8, 2012

bilby commented on the list cattle

cattle appear a couple of times in the definitions for mess.

July 14, 2012

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

Fantastic! Thanks, bilby. I like all the messes.

July 15, 2012

hernesheir commented on the list cattle

Just found and added finchbacked, 'zuzu.

December 2, 2012

bilby commented on the list cattle

A bit yucky, but, ehrm, pith.

May 4, 2018

ruzuzu commented on the list cattle

Thanks, bilby!

May 4, 2018

bilby commented on the list cattle

I don't know how cattle specific it is but hoofing-place.

June 9, 2021

bilby commented on the list cattle

bucentaur?

August 14, 2021