Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Cow goes, "Baaa!" (With Sincere Apologies To Rene Magritte)

     The man was a genius, if you ask me; but sometimes a fool in a hurry stumbles down almost the same path, all unseeing.

     I get e-mail flyers from One Kings Lane, an intere$ting enterprise that specializes in high quality small-lot antique/unique home furnishings and similar items, a business model based on both style and speed.  Occasionaly, this leads to amusing results:
     Nice folk art -- give me a jigsaw, a free afternoon, scrap wood and some milk paint, and I'll make you a half-dozen -- but it is manifestly not a cow.

      Fluffy.  White.  Short-legged. Rudimentary tail.  Pudgy-looking. Poor city kids, never seen gamboling lambs grow up to become stolid, silly sheep.
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14 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2013 at 1:25 PM

    Note... He also Lists the Lamp as a Roadster when it is CLEARLY a Sedan...

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  2. Dave HFebruary 24, 2013 at 1:37 PM

    "No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”"
    - H.L. Mencken

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    French cow.

    Too much bread and cheese.

    Shootin' Buddy

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  4. Old NFOFebruary 24, 2013 at 4:56 PM

    LOL, nobody ever said they had to 'know' what they were talking about... :-)

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  5. BGMillerFebruary 24, 2013 at 5:59 PM

    Is that my cow?

    It goes BAA.

    That's not my cow.


    BGM

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  6. Home on the RangeFebruary 24, 2013 at 9:21 PM

    That's one of those Southdown Cows, just prior to shearing.

    I saw them on the weather channel once.

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  7. Roberta XFebruary 25, 2013 at 6:38 AM

    Like British "corn," are they?

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  8. ogFebruary 25, 2013 at 7:25 AM

    A french "spanner".

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  9. Roberta XFebruary 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM

    Ce n'est pas une "spanner." (I'd do French quotes but it takes too much finagling to get the computer to not take it for html.)

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  10. Engineering JohnsonFebruary 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    That's a very important kind of cow... It's known as The Grand Moo-Bah.

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  11. ogFebruary 25, 2013 at 10:23 AM

    It's not only not a spanner, it's not a picture of a spanner, it's a picture of a crude carving of a representation of a cow/sheep.

    grand moo baaaa indeed.

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2013 at 1:31 AM

    Sorry, pretty sure it's a spanner. Got a live one in the yard right now and the guy who sold it to me said it's a spanner. AND IT POOPS.

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  13. Roberta XFebruary 26, 2013 at 6:36 AM

    Well, there you go, then.

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  14. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 8:39 AM

    As an aside, I had Moroccan spanner stew over couscous last night. Excellent, for spanner that is.

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