# More Mundane Pointless stuff on Cattle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550 "2010-05-24T08:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/61 "2010-05-28T03:18:56Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > It’s a famous literary reference. In Steinbeck’s _ **Cannery Row** _, Doc makes a beer milkshake. Ha! I googled “cannery row shakeabeer” and the first result is your post. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/62 "2010-05-28T07:03:28Z")
So **Attack from the 3rd dimension** is Steinbeck now? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/63 "2010-05-28T14:44:14Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > So **Attack from the 3rd dimension** is Steinbeck now? :dubious: 😃 Sometimes I wonder if Doc was based on me, or if I was based on Doc. Incidentally, Doc does make a beer milkshake, but he doesn’t really call it a shakeabeer.I’ve had a beer milkshake on Steinbeck’s birthday. It’s not very good. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/64 "2010-05-28T16:01:09Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I vote we rename the thread “Cattle prattle battle rattle” 😃 > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Have you been reading **Fox In Socks** again? > > “When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles…” I look forward to our first thread on Starbellied Sneech mutilations. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/65 "2010-05-28T16:34:28Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Yeah- you could change it to Featherlou or something. Nah, that would just be weird. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Or Feathermoo… Now, _that_ I like! ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/66 "2010-05-30T11:56:33Z")
Maybe is it Kea parrots. They fly around looking like innocent li’l birdies, then whip out the advanced laser technology and snack down. It fits all the theories; they are alien to this continent, they can fly, they have a documented history of both mutilating livestock, AND random screwing with stuff in pointlessly destructive and elaborate ways, and if they are half as smart as my parrots, they could be picking the locks on their cages pre-mute, then returning and locking themselves back in. The rancher should set out microphones and be on the alert for cries of " KEA, KEA, DAMMIT KEA". The relentless self glorification of the Kea inevitably busts them. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/67 "2010-05-30T13:05:30Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Ha! I googled “cannery row shakeabeer” and the first result is your post. There are currently 5 results, all from this thread. Mine will likely become the sixth. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/68 "2010-05-30T13:39:26Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > There are currently 5 results, all from this thread. > Mine will likely become the sixth. That was fast: [Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22cannery+row+shakeabeer%22&filter=0) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/69 "2010-05-30T21:22:28Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Well isnt this something,so its buzzards now is it? Buzzards my foot.If theres a way to kick all of you into gear I dont know what it is. The ranchers have been called morons here and not one of you came to their defense. These men may not know Shakeabeer from Mickey Mouse but they know cattle. Their livelyhoods depend on their knowing them. Granted. So, are we pretty sure the carcasses are actually cattle carcasses? I think lots of us would go along with that. Saaaaay… How do we know YOU’RE not doing it? All in good fun, right? ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/70 "2010-05-31T01:28:42Z")
twas me ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/71 "2010-05-31T03:22:41Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > twas me twat?!?! :eek: :spit take: No wait, that should be :spit take: :eek: Twat!?!?! As I’d still have the fluids in my mouth in the original… unless of course I chose to say my phrase, and then drink and then spit take… hmmm… almost as big a mystery as these cattle muties. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550.md?page=3)