Space Cows
NASA
You have one cow.
The cow just runs around in circles in the field.
You miss your old cow.
You can't rely on any other farmers (because farming is just too hard).
You retire your cow, dig up your old cows bones and wrap it in new leather.
Alt Space
You have fifty cow designs.
Any one of your cows would put out 50 times the milk of government cows!
If only you had money...
(Apologies to Space Pragmatisim's Dan Schrimpsher who wrote it first. And with apologies to Jon Goff at Selenian Boondocks, which is where it appears I got it first. And I was reminded of the second, because Mark Whittington at Curmudgeon's Corner jostled my memory cells a bit.)
Posted by Fred Kiesche at June 21, 2007 09:50 AMI don't mind you reprinting it, but please give me credit. (from Jan 13, 2006) http://www.spacepragmatism.com/2006/01/space-cows.html
Posted by: Dan Schrimpsher at June 21, 2007 06:25 PMNo problem! I probably had it at one point, but lost a bunch of stuff when my old hard drive went "south"! I'll correct it right away--thanks for letting me know (and if anybody spots anything else missing a credit, and knows who did it, please let me know as well).
And, Dan, that posting is a hoot. A classic. Which is way I had it saved to my PDA to begin with (even though I had lost your name at one point)!
Posted by: Nameless Blog Poster at June 21, 2007 07:03 PMNot to be nit picky, but I wrote it from scratch. What I got from Jon was the Neil Borts politcal cow list. Just to be clear.
Posted by: Dan Schrimpsher at June 21, 2007 09:23 PMIllumination strikes me like a wet noodle...but I still wonder where I got it from to begin with. Somebody that I read at that point must have picked it up, as looking at the posting on your site, your site did not look familiar to me. So the quest does continue, sort of!
Posted by: Nameless Blog Poster at June 22, 2007 05:17 AM