# Important Cows!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-cows/306646>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-cows/306646 "2005-06-03T00:43:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![DuhCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DuhCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DuhCow)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-cows/306646/1 "2005-06-03T00:43:55Z")

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I don’t know if this is in other cities, but New York has been plastered with posters that have a cow on them that say ‘the cows are coming - may12.’ may 12 came and went, i saw no cows. what was the deal with that?

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-cows/306646/2 "2005-06-03T00:47:40Z")

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I had forgotten all about this.

Based on the website, it seems that it was some kind of promotion for Nestle Half-and-Half.

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-cows/306646/3 "2005-06-03T03:47:45Z")

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What a shame. I thought they were bringing this [http://www.cowparadenewyork.com/about/](http://www.cowparadenewyork.com/about/) back.