# Oh why must you make it so hard to take your tragedy seriously. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551 "2013-07-15T12:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/1 "2013-07-15T12:45:02Z")
So I was going through reading the morning news online. And the title of this story caught my eye. [Cow crashes through roof, kills sleeping Brazilian](http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19479766-reports-cow-crashes-through-roof-kills-sleeping-brazilian) I do my best to maintain an objective curiosity without snickering as I begin to read about the threat of flying cows. It becomes clear the are no flying cows or even catapulted cows, simply a cow who walked onto a roof and fell through. Thinking I am one simple paragraph away from making it through with a proper dignity. Then I come across this: > [@](#): > > “I didn’t bring my son up to be killed by a falling cow," his mother Maria de Souza told Brazil’s Super Canal TV channel. And all composure was lost. I am so glad that was cleared up, There is far too much negligent parenting these days, Raising kids simply as a sacrifice to the almighty falling cow. Speaking of which, in the spirit of words like defenestration, there should be a word meaning “fallen on by cow” to simply these matters. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/2 "2013-07-15T12:50:08Z")
Cowabunga’d?? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/3 "2013-07-15T12:53:15Z")
That’s snicker awful bwah hah hah! > [@](#): > > “I didn’t bring my son up to be killed by a falling cow" I can’t help hearing this in the voice of one of Monty Python’s middle-aged women. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/4 "2013-07-15T13:09:46Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I can’t help hearing this in the voice of one of Monty Python’s middle-aged women. Well now **I** can’t either! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/5 "2013-07-15T13:29:37Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Speaking of which, in the spirit of words like defenestration, there should be a word meaning “fallen on by cow” to simply these matters. I don’t know. If it were an exploding cow, it would be a bos-a-nova. When everyone refuses to socially interact with a Brazillian cow, it’s vaca-shun ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/6 "2013-07-15T13:41:50Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > a Brazillian cow Now I’m picturing a shaved cow. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/7 "2013-07-15T13:48:56Z")
It seems like it would be the sort of thing you’d expect to happen to Wiley Coyote. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/8 "2013-07-15T13:55:19Z")
This thread brings to mind a quotation of Mel Brooks: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/9 "2013-07-15T13:56:28Z")
Also by the grieving mom: "There’s no justice in the world.” ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/10 "2013-07-15T14:38:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Also by the grieving mom: "There’s no justice in the world.” So the cow was exonerated of all wrongdoing and set free? A travesty of justice! (Also, wherever I first saw/heard about this, I think they mentioned there had been several similar incidents. An epidemic of falling cows.) ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/11 "2013-07-15T14:41:40Z")
Maybe it’s just me, but I found it mooving. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/12 "2013-07-15T15:04:51Z")
this is udderly unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/13 "2013-07-15T15:18:55Z")
When she eats a hamburger will she say, “This time it’s personal!”? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/14 "2013-07-15T15:19:31Z")
Was it related to an Aztec cow? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/15 "2013-07-15T15:24:58Z")
Eagerly awaiting the release of Cownado. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/16 "2013-07-15T15:32:46Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Eagerly awaiting the release of Cownado. Surely it’s going to be Cowvalanche. (Cowlapse?) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/17 "2013-07-15T15:35:58Z")
I think the victim’s family will try to milk this for all it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/18 "2013-07-15T15:38:11Z")
Guys, c’mon. She’s got a legitimate beef. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/19 "2013-07-15T16:31:51Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I don’t know. If it were an exploding cow, it would be a bos-a-nova. Surely you mean it would be abominable. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551/20 "2013-07-15T16:40:29Z")
I herd it on the radio this morning. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-why-must-you-make-it-so-hard-to-take-your-tragedy-seriously/663551.md?page=2)