# Billygoat eats TNT. That a problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234 "2010-09-27T16:02:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/41 "2010-10-04T19:07:29Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@jackdavinci](#): > > > > OK I get the Nobel gasses, but I’m lost on the Farmer Smith joke. > > Abominable = A Bomb In A Bull. If it went off, you could describe the sudden lack of a male bovine as noble. ---
**Author:** ![Looey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Looey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Looey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/42 "2010-10-11T13:59:01Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@jackdavinci](#): > > > > OK I get the Nobel gasses, but I’m lost on the Farmer Smith joke. > > Abominable = A Bomb In A Bull. Silly me, I just thought it was a reference to having bullshit everywhere. Which of course, is what all the best SDMB threads have. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/43 "2010-10-12T01:14:43Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Just don’t stand behind that goat. Or feed him beans along with said TNT. ---
**Author:** ![ratmanizhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ratmanizhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratmanizhere)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/44 "2010-10-12T13:15:36Z")
I guess banging the goat on Saturday night is out of the question! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/45 "2010-10-12T13:38:41Z")
> [@matt](#): > > One thing I missed earlier is that goats are ruminants, so there’s a whole multi-stomach, cud-chewing thing to consider. If the goat has a really good chew, it’ll squeeze the NG out of the absorbant and might just be able to set it off as soon as it eats it. Nitroglycerin is absorbed in the mouth in humans, and possibly also in goats, so there’s a chance the goat might be poisoned and die at this stage before we have to worry about goat poop. There’s more than a chance. As someone upthread pointed out, nitro is a potent vasodilator with a very quick onset of action and it is absorbed through the mucus membranes of the mouth, no matter what your species. That goat’s going to drop dead of low blood pressure, and possibly start hemorrhaging on Uncle Andy’s petunias, before the stuff even reaches his \*first \*stomach, even if he manages to chew politely with his mouth closed and not set off the kaboom. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/46 "2010-10-12T15:11:48Z")
Could you imagine if it was eaten by a smaller animal like a rooster? Why, he’d be launched from here, all the way to…Bangkok! Of course, if the females ate it, they’d immediately become kung pow chicken. Or what if a baby bear ate it? You could name him Cub Louie! I could go all day, folks. And the goat could go _any_ day. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/47 "2010-10-12T17:01:51Z")
Seems as good a time as any to mention my favorite cowboy joke. * * * A cowboy told his grandson the secret to a long life. He said, “You gotta sprinkle a little gunpowder on your oatmeal, see. If you do, you’ll live to a nice ripe old age.” So the grandson did this religiously every day, and sure enough, lived to the nice ripe old age of 96. When he died he left behind 4 children, 8 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren …and a 16 foot hole in the wall of the crematorium. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/48 "2010-10-13T02:35:00Z")
> [@matt](#): > > One thing I missed earlier is that goats are ruminants, so there’s a whole multi-stomach, cud-chewing thing to consider. If the goat has a really good chew, it’ll squeeze the NG out of the absorbant and might just be able to set it off as soon as it eats it. Nitroglycerin is absorbed in the mouth in humans, and possibly also in goats, so there’s a chance the goat might be poisoned and die at this stage before we have to worry about goat poop. > [@WhyNot](#): > > There’s more than a chance. As someone upthread pointed out, nitro is a potent vasodilator That was me, among others! I was playing “what if”. As in, what if the absorbant holds the NG well enough that it can swallow a stick of dynamite without absorbing a lethal dose? Which if **MachineElf** is correct, is around 8g for humans. The EGDN used as an antifreeze may be an even stronger vasodilator than NG. Anyone got a goat they don’t need? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/49 "2010-10-13T12:30:25Z")
Obligatory link to a classic thread: [Do they make PVC big enough to launch a goat out of?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41020) ---
**Author:** ![alindallas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@alindallas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alindallas)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234/50 "2010-10-17T00:38:16Z")
You would have … Kid Dyn-o-mite! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billygoat-eats-tnt-that-a-problem/555234.md?page=2)