cows

Posted by: jayd on 13 February 2004

(Stolen from the web.)

DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbra Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to
support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was
a gift from your government.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays
you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO
on the second one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you
have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRANCE
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPAN
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an
ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMANY
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALY
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital.

IRAQ
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

FLORIDA
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the
best-looking cow.

NEW YORK
You have fifteen million cows.
You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you
pick some fat cow from Arkansas.

CALIFORNIA
You have millions of cows.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big teats.

PS- No offense intended to people of any nationality, creed, religion, or political persuasion. Or to cows.

[This message was edited by jayd on FRIDAY 13 February 2004 at 18:56.]
Posted on: 13 February 2004 by jayd
Two words: Plausible deniability.Big Grin
Posted on: 13 February 2004 by long-time-dead
quote:
IRAQ
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.


Are these cows capable of producing milk in 45 minutes ????
Posted on: 13 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
No, these are only 'cowfield' cows. But we still had to kill them because the Prime Minister thought they might learn how to fly over Cyprus.
Posted on: 13 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
..but as Mick says, it was all justifiable because the farmer was a nasty sort and we got the milk.
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Bruce Woodhouse
Britain

You have two cows
One gets an illness which means they think they are a sheep. He gets killed.
One has a friend who knew somebody who once had a slightly sore mouth. He gets killed for knowing him.
The farmer kills himself.
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
I think you mean 'she' Bruce, or am I talking bull?
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Bruce Woodhouse
Interesting point Jez, but what is the generic term for the species? If you see a field of mixed male/female friesians then they are still a field of 'cows' surely?

A fascinating etymological debate will ensue no doubt.

Bruce
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Derek Wright
quote:
One has a friend who knew somebody who once had a slightly sore mouth. He gets killed for knowing him.


This being cheaper than trying to cure the cow in an animal hospital where it would get MRSA and lose it's legs anyway and have to be oxygen challenged. <g>

Derek

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Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Derek Wright
Mixed field of male /female cows

In Lincolnshire this would have been a field or herd of beast - pronounced "bee ast"

as in take two bee-ast to market

Derek

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[This message was edited by Derek Wright on SATURDAY 14 February 2004 at 13:41.]
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
quote:
a field of 'cows'


'Cattle' isn't it?
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
An online dictionary defines 'cattle' as "Any of various chiefly domesticated mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen, often raised for meat and dairy products"

I also looked up 'cattle field' - no entries found but it asked "do you mean battlefield?"

How weird is that?