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The Welsh and their sheep

on Mar 19 2009 at 9:53 am | Filed under: Uncategorized

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12 Responses to “The Welsh and their sheep”

  1. on 19 Mar 2009 at 10:17 am 1suek

    Wow. Impressive!

    Have you ever watched a sheep dog trial?? pretty penny ante compared to the manuvers required for this performance. I know they have to keep the dogs’ training sharp, but that’s still a lot of work!

    Do you _know_ how stupid sheep are? The only thing more stupid in the domestic class is the chicken, I think. Sheep….bah. Tasty, though.

  2. on 19 Mar 2009 at 11:41 am 2SADIE

    WONDERFUL…! Thanks for the post. Shared it with a long list of friends.

    suek: Wonder if there’s any correlation between stupid domestic animals and taste?

  3. on 19 Mar 2009 at 11:44 am 3Ymarsakar

    A nice bit of human ingenuity there, and it was all done without any Obama like exploitation of the rich or poor.

    I don’t see sheep as stupid, since on an IQ level all animals are inferior to man. But they are rather predictable and when human hands are put on the predictable, our creativity can present a unique order.

  4. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:22 pm 4suek

    >>I don’t see sheep as stupid>>

    Y…

    Well, compared to worms, maybe not.

    Have you ever worked with any?

    I’m probably the only person you will ever know who has had sheep pox. I _have_ worked with sheep. I saw one knock itself unconscious 3 times, once. Ran into a solid wood fence and fell to the ground for about 30 seconds. Got up and did exactly the same thing. Took a third time to get the idea that it was NOT going to get through the fence.
    I may end up with some again, the way things are going. And a couple of goats and a calf or two. Things are _not_ looking up, to my way of thinking. We may be on our own sooner than people realize.

    I heard an interview with a dairy farmer one day this week about the fact that prices for milk are at their lowest in years. Have you noticed milk prices dropping?? I sure haven’t. This particular farmer was saying that this year is going to end with a major loss for him. Dairy farming is a 24/7 job…why would anyone bother – especially if they follow through with the NAIS legislation. Not good.

  5. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:26 pm 5Ymarsakar

    Took a third time to get the idea that it was NOT going to get through the fence.

    That’s persistence though. A virtue ; )

  6. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:31 pm 6kali

    Suek, with that experience with sheep, I’d like to recommend Bellwether, by Connie Willis. It’s all about chaos theory, fads, information theory, and of course, sheep. A great book.

  7. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:23 pm 7Mike Devx

    suek #4:

    >> I _have_ worked with sheep. I saw one knock itself unconscious 3 times, once. Ran into a solid wood fence and fell to the ground for about 30 seconds. Got up and did exactly the same thing. Took a third time to get the idea that it was NOT going to get through the fence.

    Sheep are to a wooden fence as leftists are to:
    a. a strawberry
    b. a pincushion
    c. a soft cumulus cloud
    d. a crumb on the floor
    e. the cold hard facts of economics (except the sheep eventually learn)

    Many people choose ‘d’, because they realize that leftists will leave you with only a single crumb on the floor, before they’re done with you, and you’ll be starving anyway, and the crumb will still leave you dead after all the misery. However, choosing ‘d’ is in fact a mistake because the comparison is invalid.

    Modern educationalists have chosen to allow ‘d’ as an alternative correct answer anyway. They figure that people are choosing ‘d’ because of the extreme trauma of having to DEAL with leftists all day, every day, 24-7, and we’re so traumatized we’re incapable of reason any longer. Unlike the leftists, who were never even capable of reason in the first place.

    Then the educationalists threw up their hands, muttered, “taking tests lowers self-esteem, and we don’t want to cause anyone’s self esteem to suffer”, and they just decided that all answers are correct, depending on how you looked at them.

  8. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:37 pm 8Danny Lemieux

    It demonstrates unequivocally that Liberal Democrats really are capable of accomplishing great things if properly herded, even in the dark.

  9. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:43 pm 9suek

    Well…I’d say e. But then I’d have to face the fact that as difficult as it is to understand the present economic situation, I might be included among the leftists – and that would be intolerable!

    Guess I’ll go with c. since it seems as if lefties always have their heads in a fog…which I can sort of understand. Clouds always look so soft, fluffy and attractive – but once you get into them, they’re nothing but fog after all.

  10. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:28 pm 10Ymarsakar

    I Choose Y.

  11. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:32 pm 11Ymarsakar

    Sheep are to a wooden fence as leftists are to:

    A crucifixion cross, except more of a y look than a T.

    It starts out with the T. Then it goes to the t as the legs are broken and then you have the Y as the shoulders are dislocated and the strength flees the arms. y is then when there is no strength left to prevent strangulation by the cross.

  12. on 19 Mar 2009 at 6:44 pm 12Mike Devx

    I must have been too cute with my allegory!

    The sheep running full-tilt and banging up against the fence and dropping, stunned and bewildered. Then getting up and doing it again and again, because they just can’t figure out what they’re doing wrong.

    That’s how liberals behave each time they run up against the cold hard facts of economics.
    - What’s this runaway inflation? Where’d it come from?
    - I doubled everyone’s taxes! WHY didn’t my revenues double???
    - I took all the business away from the markets and put it in the hands of government officials, and now almost nothing ever seems to get done, and what gets done, gets done poorly, and unemployment is skyrocketing!
    They never can figure it out. Never.

    Then, when they’re turned out of office, and everything gets back to normal, here they come again, with their leftist economic foolery, and BAM, there’s the cold, pure economic facts (that “wooden fence”) again. SMACK.

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