Re: Re[2]: [acornlive] Funny Story

Liam Ronan (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:40:40 +0100 

Now now. Must I always be the one to try to establish the peace? Before
characterizing this story, please look up the definitions that may be
applied to the title word "funny" (which is what the tale is purported to
be). "Peculiar", "Odd", "Suspicious", "Dubious" are not inapplicable. The
author may well have achieved his purpose and the readers were too bovine to
catch on. Cows are stew-peds, Mis. Chiefers, not people.
Liam Ronan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Cheevers" <CCheevers@unfccc.de>
To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>; <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:02 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [acornlive] Funny Story


> This is not funny. It's stupid!
>
> p.s.
>
> I had to write an essay on the topic of "stupidity" once, and learning its
> definition which is "extreme dullness of perception" seems to apply to
your
> mindset at the time of the incident and also your decision to circulate
it.
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Subject:    Re: [acornlive] Funny Story
> Author: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
> Date:       08/06/00 12:48
>
> ok thanks for the email send all your storys to me P THE GREAT WORK JOEY D
> :)
> >I have a pretty funny story for everyone out there, particularly for
those
> >of you who may not be so rural as me. I went fishing on Saturday, my
buddy
> >Doug and I were way up the side of Steamboat Mountain in Southern British
> >Columbia, when all of a sudden there's about 30 cattle just sitting
around
> >on the road. There's no way around, nowhere to turn around for a couple
of
> >miles as this is a narrow, forested logging road. So I figure, 'Hey, I've
> >been around stock all my life' so I hop out of the car. Doug's like,
'what
> >the hell are you doing' and I told him not to worry, and grabbed a
> >convenient stick and began moving cattle. Now you gotta know, these cows
> >have been in Summer Pasture on the Mountain for a month or two, and,
though
> >docile, they sort of go wild. THe trick is to make sure you aren't
standing
> >between a cow and her calf, especially when they are starting to get
> >independent like now. Anyways, I'd herded these cows off the road, when I
> >hear this bleating up on the hill. I look up and there's this calf
standing
> >on the other side, scared-looking, next thing I know, it was like slow
> >motion, this mean-looking cow charges up at me, snorting and all, right
> >around the front of the truck, nails me hard into the ditch, the calf
runs
> >off and the cow walks away behind it. My friend Doug jumps out of the
> >truck,
> >sees I'm ok and starts laughing, saying he's never seen nothing so funny
in
> >his life. I landed pretty hard though and my neck still hurts a couple
days
> >after. Beauty day, good fihing, regardless of sunburn
> >
> >
> >
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