Cow tipping

[mix]

[lillypaddle]

1. I'm from Okla.

there was a local band called "the cow tippers."

Of COURSE there was. And they were cool, too.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. The Kowma Sutra has taught me of more intricate, advanced pleasures...

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[taterguy]

3. Lots of cows and drunk folks in the NC mountains

You're damn right the cows get tipped.

And worse.

[cloudbase]

4. Only for really good service. n/t

[Dash87]

5. What happens when the cow gets up and tips the human?

lol. Where did people ever get the idea that cows sleep standing up? Is there any mammal that actually does that? :D

♥

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. I did once...

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...but I had hooked myself up to a tree to keep off the cold, wet ground.
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I still think I should qualify for whatever prize is being offered.
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[Ptah]

7. Horses sleep standing.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. No they don't.

They might snooze while standing, but horses absolutely lay down to sleep.

[mix]

13. No they don't.

Yes, horses do most of their sleeping standing up. Their legs can lock in place, enabling them to fall asleep without falling over. Because they are prey animals, horses often don't feel comfortable sleeping on the ground, and most of their sleeping is done during the day rather than at night when the predators are out hunting.
Horses have straight backs, so they cannot get up quickly. If a predator were to come while a horse was on the ground, they might not be able to get up fast enough to get away. However, horses do occasionally take short naps laying down during the day. This helps them to rest their legs. You can sometimes find a horse stretched out on its side, asleep in the sun, or laying on the ground with its legs folded under. When horses are in groups, they will often take turns 'guarding' each other as they rest, with one horse standing up near the sleeping horse. This behavior would help to keep a wild horse from being attacked during a nap.
http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/info/hq_sleepstandingup.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301635.html

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. OK, fair enough. I'll rephrase...

Domesticated horses that sleep in STALLS, sleep lying down on a regular basis.

At least the several dozen or so that I have worked with when I was younger certainly did. Some so soundly you had to pat them on the neck to wake them up. Those ranged from your everyday hack horse to thoroughbreds in a training barn.

[mix]

16. They do feel safer in stalls,

and lie down...but they're hard wired to spend most of their sleep time standing, even in stalls.

[applegrove]

17. Sea Biscuit slept laying down. Which was considered rare and may have had something to do with his

prowess on the racetrack.

[rrneck]

8. But cows only.

I asked a bull once if it worked on them. He said, "Nope, we bulls wobble but we don't fall down."

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Wha... ... ...bull? n/t

[petronius]

12. Fecking brilliant! That's got to be the best pop culture reference pun ever...

:)

(Now I want to go tear my parents house apart until I find my old Weeble Wobble submarine...)

[nolabear]

14. Oh. my. God.

That's SO wrong.

[mix]

11. cow tipping for the uninitiated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ectgHjUcV8

[nolabear]

18. I started to post this, then figured there must be a real one posted.

Couldn't find one at all. Since people will post everything on the Youtubes, I'm going with myth.

[mix]

19. sound reasoning,

people will post anything on youtube