I get it ! maybe it's in reaction to your post on Hillary's speech.

No sir, you only have to impregnate a cow once to get dairy. They will produce milk as long as you keep milking them. We have so many cows because we have so many people that think they are tasty.

Oh, and because of ice cream. Who doesn't like ice cream.

Cows intelligent? Wow, as someone who has lived near cows for quite sometime, I never realized that when they were standing around doing nothing but standing in the same place for hours they were contemplating their place in the universe, or that when coyotes attack them and they freak out instead of just using their superior size and numbers to stomp on them, it was because they are intelligent!

So, what was he doing with the chickens?

Maybe we should give chickens and cows an IQ test to see which is smarter.

mateo r -

Can we test Senator Biden at the same time? He seems to be really proud of his IQ. My guess is that he's smarter than the chicken. I'm less sure about his IQ relative to the cow's.

I've raised chickens as a vegetarian

Isn't that the only way you CAN raise a chicken? They're naturally vegetarians, aren't they? Who raises them as carnivores?

They sure are tasty, though.

How about if we give them a taste test to see if which is more delicious?

Actually, have you ever given chickens their own eggs? They scarf those down like there's no tomorrow. Both of these animals are only so common because humans have a vested interest in keeping them around.

Let that be a lesson to you evolving species out there: if you evolve to be tasty, make sure to be reeeaaly tasty so that we'll keep you around.

I often rant about random subjects to strangers as well. I would elaborate but things are pretty busy here in Denver right now.

Have to agree with AR I have seen some democrats, not many, smarter than cows. Chickens while dumber than a box of rocks may beat out cows. Never saw chickens stampede over a cliff.

Silicon Valley Jim-

Chickens are not vegetarians, they will eat bugs and probably other wimpy things like liberals if given the opportunity.

Jimmy-

There are questions you definitely don't want answered. My money is that yours is one of them.

First the fake presidential seal ... now with the fake Typical WhiteHouse... B.O. is putting together an entire line of Presidential Playtime toys!

Clearly a blogger from the DNC convention.

Poor fella, he's been surrounded by so much stupidity all week that cattle seem "EVEN more" intelligent than fowl. I can see how, relative to all those freaks around him, cows and chickens would suddenly seem friggin' brilliant.

Yes, I stupidly insist on using cows for dairy. My cat won't let me milk it and, lets face it, cat burgers just aren't as tasty as hamburgers. Which, while I'm on that subject, shouldn't they really be called 'cowburgers'?

Why would a vegetarian be raising chickens? Do you like the noise? The first time a rooster woke me up at oh-dark-thirty in the morning, I guarantee I'd be having chicken and eggs for breakfast.

Maybe he/she is just bitter because he/she no longer has the means to raise chickens. I mean - ANYbody can raise chickens - this person must be REALLY poor. Maybe it's Obama's brother or something.

Brian The Adequate - I have answers.

1. He must have seen that dairy on TV where they impregnate the cows every day just to get their milk.

2. If you screw with the chickens, they up and die on you. Then you HAVE to eat 'em.

I watched some of the DNC coverage over the past two nights and there appears to be a large contingent of cows in attendance and they seem to be angry! I doubt the intelligence theory, however...

Chickens are not vegetarians, they will eat bugs and probably other wimpy things like liberals if given the opportunity.

Thank you, Brian. I don't get to see a lot of chickens here in Silicon Valley, so I don't know these things. I was going to be moving to Iowa in a week, but the fact that a car hit me while I was bicycling home last week, and, in the process, broke several bones in my leg, has changed my plans for now. I still look forward to learning about pigs and corn.

Maybe we should give chickens and cows an IQ test to see which is smarter.

#5 - Posted by: mateo r on August 27, 2008 12:48 PM

It's chickens - I've seen them play tic-tac-toe. Ever seen a cow do that? Yeah, didn't think so.

Jim,

Sorry to hear about your injuries. You will find Iowa a very nice state. I grew up there. The people are very friendly, highly educated and great neighbors! Just make sure you make the Iowa Hawkeyes your football team and not those totally gay Iowa State Cyclones...

Cows always point north

Anyone else getting a CattleMax ad? Ads by Google isn't so good at its job is it?

Silicon Valley Jim - heal up quick.

Yeah, chickens eat every thing that is not nailed down, and would eat the nails if they could Jim. But to someone who has never seen a chicken run around with it's head chopped off, fun little farm facts can't prepare you for the joys of rural life and the friendly, gracious, helpful and giving people you meet there.

Thanks for the kind words, Jimmy and ussjimmycarter. I'm in very little pain, thanks, I think, to some very skillful surgeons; it took two hours of surgery under general anesthesia to put my left ankle back together. I'm just gaining a little more energy every day and doing all the things that I've been told to do (which occurs about as often as Teddy Kennedy stays sober).

Reminds me of a National Peoples' Radio (NPR) reporter a few years ago about her experience on a dude-ranch - after setting the scene (how she'd been vegan, then normal, then vegan, then omnivore again, and how she thought that she'd go back to vegan after her experience)-

After only two days of working with these incredibly stupid animals, I have come to realize that they are food.

Probably a response to this post. http://www.imao.us/archives/000895.html/#comments

Glad to see she's got the whole cows thing nailed down, though. I still prefer your prediction about the fate of the cows under vegetarian rule. Love the blog!

Jimmy in Silicon, I have tried to raise chickens as carnivores, much to the dismay of my other animals. Now all I have to show for it are uncontrolable meat eating machines that constantly crave hippy flesh. Wow, I never realized until now, that isn't a bad thing at all. DNC here I come!!!!!

Oh I am sorry...I am eating this giant steak to care at this moment.

Silicon Valley Jim.... you cant break "several" bones in your leg.... there are only three Femur, Tibia, Fibia..... as the current recipient of a brken ankle.. I commiserate and wish you a speedy recovery....

Jimmy "If you screw with chickens they up and die on you". Please spare the readers the intimate details of your nefarious lifestyle....

I don't have any chickens, TerribleTroy. Just tomatoes, green beans and summer squash. I eat those. I did chop the heads off chickens years ago and they up and died on me.

#14 HKdude

In English, the casual observer would think it makes more sense to call hamburger cowburger, but the word has a dark and secret German etymology. They first made "hamburger" in Hamburg Germany!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger

If chickens were the size of cows, farmers would have short life expectancies.

Whoever posted that was obviously into bestiality.
Since Vince is dead it must have been Bill or Janet, who is a beat in her own right.

Terrible Troy--
I commiserate with you and Jim, and hope you are feeling better, but yes, it is indeed possible to break several bones in your leg. Several means, "more than two, yet not many." Three is more than two, but is not many.
I looked it up in my Funk and Wagnalls

You know I'm always fascinated by people who think they are more compassionate, caring, righteous, and sensitive than anyone else.

Why on God's green earth if you are a veggin would you bother to
raise domestic animals. They are of no earthly good except as food. They will simply become extinct, somewhat like people with common sense.

By letting the chicken run around your house, you can keep it insect free without pesticides. Of course then you're stepping in chicken poop all the time.

Didn't there use to be a nut job group called the United Poultry Concern that was taking in all kinds of money to protest the use of chickens as food. Then one day a Talk Show host discovered they were just a crazy old hippy woman living in a house with about a hundred chickens, and her boyfriend.

Maybe the writer is that old dried out prune trying to become relevant again?

#19. Cows play Bingo. I seen'em!