# Gets my goat. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821 "2003-05-22T15:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/1 "2003-05-22T15:22:14Z")
Well, not **my** goat, but **a** goat, that much is certain. [And to think I used to live in the town described in this link.](http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/May_03/05212003_03.asp) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/2 "2003-05-22T15:50:58Z")
You know you live in small town Ontario when… You didn’t find anything odd about a goat tied up in front of a store in downtown. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/3 "2003-05-22T17:37:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magayuk \* > \*\*You know you live in small town Ontario when… > > You didn’t find anything odd about a goat tied up in front of a store in downtown. 🙂 \*\* Ontario sounds like a _fun_ place, within certain values assigned to the word “fun”. So, you Ontarians spend a good part of your time tying up goats for fun, huh? \< **Bosda** inches slowly back out of arm’s reach\> ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/4 "2003-05-22T17:42:24Z")
> [@](#): > > This isn’t the first time HAWS has seen abandoned goats. Last year, three goats were turned in, Christopherson said. Great. A serial goat-napper. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/5 "2003-05-22T19:41:06Z")
My husband used to have a pet goat. It hung around with his horse. His name was Billy. He’d eat anything. Even metal. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/6 "2003-05-22T19:42:53Z")
Whew. T’was scared someone’s GTO had been fingered. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/7 "2003-05-22T20:19:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Ontario sounds like a _fun_ place, within certain values assigned to the word “fun”. > > So, you Ontarians spend a good part of your time tying up goats for fun, huh? > \< **Bosda** inches slowly back out of arm’s reach\> \*\* Well, I tell you what, I live not 10 km from MaaAaadoc. And you don’t even want to know what MaaAaadoc is famous for (other Ontarians know what I am talking about). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gets-my-goat/176821/8 "2003-05-23T01:11:29Z")
“Ontarians”–makes you sound like a minor species from Star Trek. One that likes goats…