# Prize Cow Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520 "2014-12-17T20:33:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/1 "2014-12-17T20:33:37Z")
I knew about racehorses having funny names, but it wasn’t until I had to make some signs for a prize show cattle sale that I understood prize show cows had the same sort of names. Here’s some that have come through over the years needing signs for their sales (most had numbers on the end for filing purposes which I have removed): Northern Improvement Make It Rain Sazerac’s Queen Sharper Image Ruby Butterfly Shock Force Cream Soda Cowboy Cut Right to Love Miss Power Lass Lock N Load Talk About Me Empriss Card Uproar Miss Pep Duracell High Voltage War Diva And like prize horses they’ll often combine names down the line, though sometimes they just tack a new number on the end to my sadness. I much prefer it when for example, “Walter Lydia” and “A Step Up” have a calf called “Two Step”. “Miss Power Lass” is probably my favorite out of the list. And they always make the cows up to look like big fluffy velveteen statues when they’re on show. Pretty adorable looking. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/2 "2014-12-17T20:53:40Z")
“Elsie the Cow” was really named _You’ll Do Lobelia_\*, and was buried at Walker Gordon Farms, near where Pepper Mill grew up. We’ve been to the site, although it’s been moved around a bit as developments go in on the property > **[Tombstone of Elsie the Cow, Plainsboro, New Jersey](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/3316)** > > Pay your respects at the gravestone of the most famous commercial cow in history. Her farm is now a townhouse development. The town museum maintains an exhibit. > **[You'll Do Lobelia (1932-1941) - Find a Grave...](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7449959/you'll_do_lobelia)** > > Animal Figure. She was the first Elsie the Cow, the one whose friendliness and big brown eyes had won the hearts of millions, and at one time the most recognized and beloved advertising symbol in the world. A headstone is located next to a small... > **[Elsie the Cow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_the_Cow)** > > Elsie the Cow is a cartoon cow developed as a mascot for the Borden Dairy Company in 1936 to symbolize the "perfect dairy product". Since the demise of Borden in the mid-1990s, the character has continued to be used in the same capacity for the company's partial successors, Eagle Family Foods (owned by J.M. Smucker) and Borden Dairy. > Named one of the Top 10 Advertising Icons of the \[20th\] Century by Ad Age in 2000, Elsie the Cow has been among the most recognizable product logos in the United S... ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/3 "2014-12-17T21:15:19Z")
What’s sad is that some of those are probably also actual baby human names. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/4 "2014-12-17T21:40:58Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > What’s sad is that some of those are probably also actual baby human names. I was just thinking about that as I saw the [Another Stupid Baby Name Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=743638) going on right next door to this one. I left out the more “normal” names. “Crocus”, “Celeste”, “Desa Rae” or “Reanne” wouldn’t be so bad! Heck I’d even take “United”. What am I saying though, if my name was “Power Lass” that’d be pretty kickass. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/5 "2014-12-17T21:51:04Z")
My granddad, a retired railroad man, had 3 milk cows named Whistle Stop, Side Rail, and Loose Caboose. I have no idea if they were prize animals or registered anywhere, but as a 6-year old, I thought they were hilarious names for cows. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/6 "2014-12-17T22:03:29Z")
I once worked on a farm where the four milk cows were named Black Cow, White Cow, Long-legged Cow, and Short-legged Cow. I could tell apart Black Cow (mostly black) and White Cow (had more white than the others, anyway), but since all the cows’ legs were indistinguishable in length I never made more headway than that. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/7 "2014-12-17T22:16:41Z")
One of my grandfathers (both were dairy farmers), kept of list of cows with info about output, shots, etc. The names on the list never changed. When “Daisy” went to the big packing plant in the sky, the next cow to start producing became “Daisy”. Simple. Don’t recall if the other grandfather had any naming system at all. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/8 "2014-12-18T07:01:53Z")
My ex-wife’s parents named their cows with a theme: Sirloin, T-bone, etc. The pigs were given names like Pork Chop, Spare Rib, and … Cupcake. (Cupcake was a 4-H project) ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/9 "2014-12-18T14:41:20Z")
The last herd I helped tend: Hussy, Crazy Bitch, and Crooked Horn. Crooked Horn was a gentle soul. Crazy Bitch, she always looked like she had a bad case of worms because she didn’t gain weight no matter how much she ate. But, she raised a good, healthy calf every year. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/10 "2014-12-18T16:13:50Z")
Show animals in general tend to have interesting names. [Here’s a list from the 2012 Westminster Dog Show](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/post/westminster-dog-show-2012s-best-named-dogs/2012/02/14/gIQAJHTNDR_blog.html), which ranges from standard pet name type names to ridiculous mouthfuls. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-cow-names/707520/11 "2014-12-18T20:04:34Z")
Racehorse names. Worth watching to the end. _[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skti_NiQggs)_