[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
Grimly, Merriam-Webster’s agrees with you. As I cannot let this illogic stand, I am hereby renouncing my renouncing of my ambitions for world conquest. Third on my agenda after the conquest will be making referring to “male cows” punishable by death.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have an army of undead cyborg winged venomous flame-spitting howler monkeys to raise.
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:eek:
Now I don’t know what to do. My mind is awhirl with a combination of terror, amusement, admiration, and curiosity: what are the first two items on your agenda?
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
Grimly, Merriam-Webster’s agrees with you. As I cannot let this illogic stand, I am hereby renouncing my renouncing of my ambitions for world conquest. Third on my agenda after the conquest will be making referring to “male cows” punishable by death.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have an army of undead cyborg winged venomous flame-spitting howler monkeys to raise.
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Did you know that in the olden days, they used to refer to a bulls as a “gentleman cow” or “male cow” because the word “bull” was considered vulgar?
[QUOTE=Wile E]
That movie really annoyed me. Fortunately we saw it on DVD so I didn’t offend other theater goers with my constant exclamations that male cattle do not have udders.
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Now I don’t know what to do. My mind is awhirl with a combination of terror, amusement, admiration, and curiosity: what are the first two items on your agenda?
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Yeah, like I’d tell you guys that. Dio’s the OP, and he’s on the side of good; he’d totally narc me out to Batman.
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Did you know that in the olden days, they used to refer to a bulls as a “gentleman cow” or “male cow” because the word “bull” was considered vulgar?
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I have already ADMITTED to being wrong. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a lair to rebuild.
[QUOTE=Charger]
Maybe it’s a censorship thing. If the bulls are not castrated, they should have giant scrotums there instead. Also, these would be difficult to animate during running scenes.
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Oh it’s not THAT difficult. Pom Poko features anthropomorphic raccoons with very prominent scrotums. At one point they even use their nut-sacks as cudgels to beat the crap out of some police in riot gear. I’m sure **Barnyard ** could have done something similar.
[QUOTE=Tengu]
What about your kids and spouse?
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No kids and my S.O. has no room to complain about my talking during movies. I almost had to reenact Sweeney Todd on him the other night.
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
Grimly, Merriam-Webster’s agrees with you. As I cannot let this illogic stand, I am hereby renouncing my renouncing of my ambitions for world conquest. Third on my agenda after the conquest will be making referring to “male cows” punishable by death.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have an army of undead cyborg winged venomous flame-spitting howler monkeys to raise.
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So they did it on purpose to be funny. Yeah, it’s hysterical. :rolleyes:
I found it distractingly stupid, personally. Good thing it was just on Showtime and I could change the channel to something less annoying, like Rock of Love or something.
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Did you know that in the olden days, they used to refer to a bulls as a “gentleman cow” or “male cow” because the word “bull” was considered vulgar?
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Hm. I grew up in the olden days and I don’t remember that. :dubious:
Actually, in the USA that might have been true in the Victorian Era - it was in the USA that the word “cock” was abandoned in favour of “rooster”, and where, one reads, that the ultrarefined put little lace stockings on piano legs, and the breast of a cooked fowl became “white meat”. Young ladies were advised not to sit on a chair that a gentleman had recently sat upon, for fear the chair might still be warm from his . . um . . . bottom.
In England the male chicken is still called a cock, likewise the male pheasant and who knows what other bird, and Queen Victoria was not very Victorian, herself.
And those sophisticated and supposedly unblushing French call a brassiere a “soutien gorge” or “throat supporter” so poo on them, too. (Always wanted to bring the soutien gorge into a discussion but never could until this very moment.) While a woman’s breasts are sometimes referred to as “tits”, the word ought to be spelled as “teats”, as “teats” is properly pronounced as “tits” but generation upon generation of boys would be confused - their interest not lying precisely in the spelling of the items.
So, a cow’s udder generally has four teats or quarters and a bull, the noble and lordly man cow, generally does not. I hope y’all notice how I drug my verbosity back on topic?
[QUOTE=Pochacco]
Oh it’s not THAT difficult. Pom Poko features anthropomorphic raccoons with very prominent scrotums. At one point they even use their nut-sacks as cudgels to beat the crap out of some police in riot gear.
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Those wacky Japanese!
So, what’s the fixation on nicknames for castrated male animals? Why can’t bulls be bulls and stallions be stallions. Gelding just sounds so…demeaning.
So, what’s the fixation on nicknames for castrated male animals? Why can’t bulls be bulls and stallions be stallions. Gelding just sounds so…demeaning.
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Think of it as industrial labelling. A stallion has different uses than a gelding - for one, it can be used for breeding - or a cow, and is therefore listed differently. I mean, you wouldn’t call a harvester and a bulldozer by the same name, even though they’re both tractors.
That night Farmer Brown was kept awake by the sounds from the barn.
Click Clack Moo.
Click Clack Moo.
Clickity Clack Moo.
The following morning, duck (being a neutral party) handed Farmer Brown a note:
“Dear Farmer Brown,
We are unhappy cows. We demand hormones and surgery to become comfortable in our own hides. Also, sequined dresses.
Sincerly,
The Cows”
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Did you know that in the olden days, they used to refer to a bulls as a “gentleman cow” or “male cow” because the word “bull” was considered vulgar?
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You know, Mencken was often exaggerating the prudery of his contemporaries to make a satirical point in his newspaper columns.
And he has been whooshing Americans for generations since.
[QUOTE=DrFidelius]
You know, Mencken was often exaggerating the prudery of his contemporaries to make a satirical point in his newspaper columns.
And he has been whooshing Americans for generations since.
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Yes, but that quote comes from The American Language, which has no connection to Mencken’s columns. It’s one of the few Mencken works that can legitimately be called “scholarly”.
My mind is awhirl with a combination of terror, amusement, admiration, and curiosity: what are the first two items on your agenda?
