Aug 14, 2009: Boeing's Grifftopia - Page 2

Shawnee123 · 08-14-2009, 09:01 PM

I had that 45 when I was a kid. My grandma and I sang it together. The beauty of it was that when you were young, you thought about how it sounded vs how it was spelled. Actually kind of brilliant. I think it was my induction to listening to the subtleties of the English language, because I could actually hear the difference between "Mairzy doats" and "Mares eat oats" when I parsed it out in my head.

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I know a ditty nutty as a fruitcake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you-oo?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

eta: when I think about it my grandma played it on a big old record, on her console stereo she had. It looked a lot like this:

hulk · 08-14-2009, 10:37 PM

I thought I remembered reading that several communities were trying to use goats to keep the kudzu in check as well.

Pie · 08-14-2009, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by hulk

I thought I remembered reading that several communities were trying to use goats to keep the kudzu in check as well.

Sort of an "immovable-object-meets-irresistible-force" kinda-thing. I like!

xoxoxoBruce · 08-14-2009, 11:43 PM

I read some communities in CA were hiring goats to clear the flammable brush, especially on steep hillsides, around their homes. Partially because it's cheaper and more efficient, and partially to get around CA's laws.

spudcon · 08-15-2009, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I read some communities in CA were hiring goats to clear the flammable brush, especially on steep hillsides, around their homes. Partially because it's cheaper and more efficient, and partially to get around CA's laws.

It's ok to let goats do that, because illegal aliens won't do that kind of work anyway.

Griff · 08-15-2009, 07:58 AM

Looks like a great place to be a goat. Pete just put the big goats in our temporary electric between the house and a permanent enclosure. The little guys were in there all week but were too busy playing on the rock pile to decimate their surroundings.

Kasszia · 08-14-2009, 11:05 PM

My goats love to eat everything! Including Kaluha, who decided to eat the shed one day...

SPUCK · 08-15-2009, 03:50 AM

Our local municipal reservoir can only use goats on the face of the dam because anything else can injure the face causing rapid erosion, followed by a burst dam, surging maelstrom, fleeing victims, etc., etc.

TheMercenary · 08-15-2009, 04:03 PM

There is a goat farm at Ft. Bragg. Goats are good for lots of things.

Gravdigr · 08-16-2009, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Goats are good for lots of things.

Yeah, if ya bugger 'em on the edge of a cliff, they push back...

SPUCK · 08-16-2009, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Yeah, if ya bugger 'em on the edge of a cliff, they push back...

Um... And you know this how?

TheMercenary · 08-18-2009, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Yeah, if ya bugger 'em on the edge of a cliff, they push back...

And if you shoot a hole in them they bleed just like humans.

ZenGum · 08-15-2009, 07:33 PM

The police station at Bryon Bay, Australia, has a sheep in the yard as a lawn trimmer.

Its name? Bob.

Well, Ali might get it. For everyone else:

Pre-1966, Australia used non-decimal currency, including a shilling, which (a) had a picture of a merino sheep on one side and (b) was referred to as a "bob". There you go.

One night some rapscallion abducted Bob from his yard. The cheek! He was safely returned.

Then Bob grew old and passed away. His replacement?

Two Bob, of course.

SPUCK · 08-16-2009, 05:27 AM

Suggestion!

Acquire a box of Mexican chocolate.(it's very hard and looks like a hockey puck)

Grate two tablespoons of the chocolate into a LARGE tumbler.

Obtain the services of a lactating goat. Milk said goat directly into the tumbler.

You will be gifted with a large foamy chocolate drink.

OHMYGAWD!! You'll think you died and went to heaven. It is soooOOOOOO GOOD!! We'd milk our weed whacker goats into chocolate until we could NOT drink another drop.

Seriously - everyone should have that once before they die.
And any children will be enthralled.

Griff · 08-16-2009, 06:00 AM

Noted, will get on that... err the mexican choco not the cliff hanging.

08-14-2009, 11:43 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I read some communities in CA were hiring goats to clear the flammable brush, especially on steep hillsides, around their homes. Partially because it's cheaper and more efficient, and partially to get around CA's laws. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-15-2009, 07:58 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Looks like a great place to be a goat. Pete just put the big goats in our temporary electric between the house and a permanent enclosure. The little guys were in there all week but were too busy playing on the rock pile to decimate their surroundings. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-15-2009, 04:03 PM	#9
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	There is a goat farm at Ft. Bragg. Goats are good for lots of things. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

08-15-2009, 07:33 PM	#13
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The police station at Bryon Bay, Australia, has a sheep in the yard as a lawn trimmer. Its name? Bob. Well, Ali might get it. For everyone else: Pre-1966, Australia used non-decimal currency, including a shilling, which (a) had a picture of a merino sheep on one side and (b) was referred to as a "bob". There you go. One night some rapscallion abducted Bob from his yard. The cheek! He was safely returned. Then Bob grew old and passed away. His replacement? Two Bob, of course. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-16-2009, 06:00 AM	#15
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Noted, will get on that... err the mexican choco not the cliff hanging. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-14-2009, 10:37 PM	#2
hulk "Help!Call me an ambulance!!" "You're an ambulance!" Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 13	I thought I remembered reading that several communities were trying to use goats to keep the kudzu in check as well.

08-14-2009, 11:05 PM	#7
Kasszia Lurking for fun and profit. Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: State of Insanity Posts: 45	My goats love to eat everything! Including Kaluha, who decided to eat the shed one day...

08-15-2009, 03:50 AM	#8
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Our local municipal reservoir can only use goats on the face of the dam because anything else can injure the face causing rapid erosion, followed by a burst dam, surging maelstrom, fleeing victims, etc., etc.

08-16-2009, 05:27 AM	#14
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Suggestion! Acquire a box of Mexican chocolate.(it's very hard and looks like a hockey puck) Grate two tablespoons of the chocolate into a LARGE tumbler. Obtain the services of a lactating goat. Milk said goat directly into the tumbler. You will be gifted with a large foamy chocolate drink. OHMYGAWD!! You'll think you died and went to heaven. It is soooOOOOOO GOOD!! We'd milk our weed whacker goats into chocolate until we could NOT drink another drop. Seriously - everyone should have that once before they die. And any children will be enthralled.

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