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Bout the nascar listening on the radio in the thread! Heard for the first time golf coverage Sat. during work of the US Open and funny listening to the announcer describing the movement of the ball during the putts! Plus LOL like when it sounded like whispering right before the putt!
 
I am reminded of a story from my youth.

I had various jobs on farms and one time I went to a new job and they put me to work in a goat pen. There were a bunch of goats all around me and I liked the goats and got talking to them. There were some babies who were cute as hell of course but I got along with all the goats.

At one point I see the farmer approaching. I was a dopey teen and I really figured he was going to say something like, "So you like goats, eh? Yep, goats are mighty fine critters. Maybe there is a future for you with goats."

That of course was not what he said. He said (with some anger) that he was paying me to shovel the shit, not pat the goats on the head.

I see in retrospect that he had a solid point.
 
Mudcat
I am reminded of a story from my youth.

I had various jobs on farms and one time I went to a new job and they put me to work in a goat pen. There were a bunch of goats all around me and I liked the goats and got talking to them. There were some babies who were cute as hell of course but I got along with all the goats.

At one point I see the farmer approaching. I was a dopey teen and I really figured he was going to say something like, "So you like goats, eh? Yep, goats are mighty fine critters. Maybe there is a future for you with goats."

That of course was not what he said. He said (with some anger) that he was paying me to shovel the shit, not pat the goats on the head.

I see in retrospect that he had a solid point.
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I have a very similar story from my youth. Just replace goat with sheep in Mudcat's story.
 
Do you have fancy pants?

The pants I am wearing right now are kind of fancy. I mean, not fancy fancy - but fancy.

They are plaid. That is certainly not unfancy.

Sometimes I have heard people say things like, "Well would you listen to Mr. Fancypants." They are not being nice when they say it. They are being judgmental. As a frequent wearer of fancy pants, I don't know how I feel about that. It seems wrong to me that, in this day and age, people are still being judged based on the fanciness of their pants.


It is 2012 people. Time to start accepting people's pants.


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Mudcat
I don't shoot pigs, no. If I found myself in the presence of pigs, you can be pretty sure I would try to make friends with them.
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I don't understand that. Why do people have sentimentality toward animals in their presence but then go and eat them? Is it because people are now (in contemporary society) sheltered from killing, dressing, and preparing their own meals? Is it the anthropolymorphic characteristics that cartoons and books display when people are children? A combination of the two? Something else? :dunno:
 
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