cracking mud

Post #9 (Kris) has a link to an article that explains the mechanism very well, I recommend reading it.

Hey, doesn't that obligate you to give me points at #9 ? (Positive ones, in case you are in sneaky mode !). Take pity everyone, I need some credibility !

"...doesn't that obligate you to give me..."

Odd, how non-obligated I feel...

"I need some credibility!"

However, the truth of THAT is obvious on the face of it! I shall forthwith apply one 'good answer' point to post #9 in the off chance that any credibility will thus accrue to you, oh incredible one.

GOOD Kris!

Ahhhh, that's nice. I feel lovingly soothed, although slightly disturbed that you like my socks !

You wear socks?!? Who knew? Where do you get socks that fit cloven hooves (much less squirrel paws)? Are they at all like these?

Those are nice, bit I was thinking of the ones I hang out for Santa. Rodents and the Cloven have nice furry insulation.

LOL! My Aunt Lillian used to make those! I saved it to my 'favorites'...

We aim to please !

"so I'm probably talking bull"

No, no, even the pics you supplied were not of bull. That would look more like this:

or this: or even like this: Now that's a lotta BULL!

Milton Keynes has some concrete cows, but I think Albert would squash them.

All part of the service !

Ah, another one of your meditation photos, I see... Big, empty white rectangle with a small boxed red x in the upper left corner. Very easy to reach a certain level of mindless nirvana staring at that for a couple of hours... But personally, I prefer:

Tell ya what. Do Ctrl + Print Screen, then print it off via pasting to 'Paint'. You could assemble a handy jotter pad in this way You may need to clip the image a bit so you just get the space and red x.

Here it is ;

Ah, Albert! From my home state of Iowa. Wonderful, thanks! Now that's a whole lotta bull! Hereford, too - a British native, I believe?

I love it when coincidence like that happens. What are the odds on me picking bull from your Country, and home State ! I think there is a Jimmy Stewart Western in which an English Lady is transporting a Hereford into cattle country. The Longhorn ranchers are less than impressed.

Hereford is on the Welsh Border, so I guess that's where they Originate. It could just be the locally based SAS in disguise. I prefer Aberdeen Angus. On a plate !

Sorry, no plates available. On the hoof or leave it...

Are you a fibre chomping vegetarian, or do you just eat it direct from the spit ? I like vegetarian food, I'm just no good at cooking it. You may be grossed-out to hear that I like mine oozing just a trace of blood if it's grilled.

Vegetarian - old English word meaning 'poor hunter'. Make mine rare also.

There's some film where the dude says to the waiter, " Just de-horn it, wipe it's ass, and send it in ! ". This is one for JohnDG's new thread on food. I take it you mean 'rare' in the sense that it's still breathing !

Out of curiosity I looked in my (Chambers) dictionary;

Vegetable : L vegetabilis animating, from vegetare to animate ; cf vigour.

This has confused me, since common usage seems to imply the opposite.

Yes, a vigorous, animated couch potato is very much a contradiction in terms, but one of the greatest beauties of our language is its malleability. We changes it to fit as we needs it. But I don't exactly mean still breathing - more like still bleeding. If the steer was branded, it's almost been cooked enough.

I've often stated that I'll eat anything that doesn't try to eat me first or crawl off the plate, and some things that do. And since I can't leave a cliché underused, I modified the "hungry enough to eat a horse" to "and chase the rider, and have the saddle for dessert" - gets grins from wait staff all over the place!

If the steer was branded, it's almost been cooked enough.

I just PMSL !

You'll want this, then...

...or maybe this...

One of them ought to work for you!

The padding in my office ( which for some strange reason, the staff call a 'cell') is very absorbent. The one who insists he is a Doctor pulls the most strange expressions as he observes the rising Yellow decor. I've tried explaining it's hard to type with my nose, but they insist I wear the deluxe white Jacket they got me for X-mas. I have endless patience for my staff, even though they do come to me asking for help explaining the strange ink blots they design on bits of card. The weekly demonstration on cross-temple electrical conductivity isn't much fun, but one has to keep their training up to scratch.

So the fact that you seem at times to be barking mad is routinely explainable, eh? Suspicions confirmed file, here I come...

Alright gents, its about time to take the off-topic discussion to the internal message system.

Yessir, sorry sir!

Sorry Chris. Thought it had 'jumped it's shark'.. Message understood.

Lovabull , reliabull or impossibull?

One each - Relia, Lova, and Impossi, the three bovine amigos! And then there's the explorer, Naviga...you ought to recognize him!