# Watch For Falling Cow

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 6, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479 "2007-11-06T23:04:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/41 "2007-11-07T17:58:55Z")

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[QUOTE=slortar]  
I’d better get some cownip just to be safe.  
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Wouldn’t that be cow_slip_?

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/42 "2007-11-07T18:48:09Z")

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Chelan county district attorney released a statement that police are investigating the reports of a strip of cowslip planted along the edge of the cliff.

“We may have a case of attempted murder here. At least negligent bovicide.”

Tris

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**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:** [November 7, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/43 "2007-11-07T19:04:02Z")

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“That couldn’t be our cow. Ours was tied to a railroad tie.”

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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/44 "2007-11-07T19:12:10Z")

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I wonder if it was the same cow that appeared in [thread=373196]Scylla’s pool[/thread]!

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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/45 "2007-11-07T19:40:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Mindfield]  
GRAAAAAAAAINS…  
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I think I just peed myself a little. That was brilliant.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/46 "2007-11-07T20:24:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Anastasaeon]  
I think I just peed myself a little.  
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Do you suffer from incowtinence?

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/47 "2007-11-07T22:04:16Z")

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[QUOTE=BlackKnight]  
How can we be sure he wasn’t _pushed_? _paranoid eye-shifting_  
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Whover did that was a cow-ard. Or possessed of an evil moo-tivation.

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**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-for-falling-cow/425479/48 "2007-11-08T01:51:09Z")

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Somebody angered the cow gods. We’re talking bovine intervention here.

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