Re: the Five---Cornered COW
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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· 6 May 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Phil <ccx...@coventry.ac.uk> wrote: >On Sun, 3 May 1998, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote: >> >> Animals which are large AND have fewer predators reproduce less >> >> often. Simple really. (Yes, a cow/buffalo is bigger than a chimp, >> >> but it can't climb trees so it has more chance of being eaten by lions) >> >> I was really hoping somebody would take up the challenge and >> draw a cow climbin a tree to avoid being eaten by lions, to >> the astonishment of the resident monkeys. >> >Well, I only just read it and then your mail so here you go : >The monkeys would not be surprised because it is actually a common >occurence. The reason noone saw it is because the cows are very good at >cow-mouflage. Also not many people hang around when a lion is in the >vicinity to see the cows at work. >Few people know it but Cows are very good scientists and architects. Hmm...I don't think Dave Bird is familiar with the Cows v. Lemurs saga: ===================================================================== = = = <""""> <""""> = = <(c)(c)> Lemurs versus Cows <(.)(.)> = = "{..}" v.4 )/~\( = == "\/" ============================================= \U/ == > 1) What's the story about these Lemurs I occasionally see flying past my window? ____________________________________________________________________ |__________________________________________________________________| | | | \\ | | \\ | | / \ | | / \ | | \ \ | | \ \(__) | | *--> (oo) | | o / / \/ | | / / | | o \ / | | o \ / | | o // | | o // | | o <""""> | | o <(x)(x)> | | )/~\( | | , \+/ ; | | o ; . . ; | | `'' ''' | |__________________________________________________________________| |__________________________________________________________________| Flying Stealth Cow dropping a lemur outside your window ! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (2) How come the Lemurs can get onto the cow starship when the > cows themselves can't get back in? A Myth..... The Mooship Enterprise....no keys required ( ___ ) ( O O ) /MOO\ \ / MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOM\ MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOM\o/ MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOO/ MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOO ____ MOO MOOMOOMOO _____/ MOO MOOMOO __/ . . MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMO _/ . MOO MOOSHIP-1701 MOOMOO-( _/ . . MOOMOOMOOMOOMOOMOO / . . . _/. /. . /. . . / . /. . . / . . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (3) What is the Terror Cow? None other than the carrier, and dropper of, unfortunate lemurs ....from a great height ! \\ \\ / \ / \ \ \ \ \(__) *--> (oo) o / / \/ / / o \ / o \ / o // o // o o o ! ! o ; ! o ; ! ":. .:""... :.: "". o : ..: "'.<""""> o :..' )) ..<(x)(x)> '))) ; .:. )/~\( o ; .')) \x/ ))) ! ! ! ! ! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (4) What is the Cowship Investigation Agency? (__) (OO) __ \/ |__| // \ | // \ \ | \// \ | /-------------\ -----------------------/ \ ----------------------/ CIA \ / \ _____________/---------------------\_____________ / \ / Cowship Investigation Agency \ \ ( No Questions Asked ) / \_________________________________________________/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (5) Is Allan Murphy actually a cow? +=================================+ | M U R P H Y ' S S A L O O N | (__)| +-----+ | (xx)| | ___ | |(__) \/ | |/=|=\| |(oo) | |==|==| | \/ | |==|==| | ---------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (6) Has anyone besides Allan had these weird cow experiences? (__) ([][]) "I have this recurring dream __\/_--U about falling lemurs.".. (__) /\ \__ ^ :..("") /\\\ / / //\ ____\_____\/ // /----^/__/\ /\ // \\/ \___ / // \\\____/--\-- // /-/__________/ // /====== \/ =======/==============// *_/ / \ /^ // / \\ / \ ^ // \\ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (7) What was the so-called "Last Report of Agent North By North- west?" BEATS ME !!! But it sounds like he finally passed out smoking !! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (8) Where can I get weapons to fend off the Cows? Don't bother - you'd be wasting your time and money ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * COWSALF ( Cow Sea, Air, & Land Forces ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ===== SEA ===== ___ (_*_) (0 0) #) \ / _#_ _V_| | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 751 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __ ___________________| |_________________ | -_______----------- \ >| _____ Moo-boat ---> ) |__ - ---------_________________________________________________ / oo o o o ooo after o oo -Scott Mason- o o oo o ===== AIR ===== \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \(__) \ \(__) \ \(__) *--> (oo) *--> (oo) *--> (oo) / / \/ / / \/ / / \/ / / / / / / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / // // // // // // A Flight of Stealth Terror Cows ====== LAND ====== (__) (OO) __ \/ |__| // \ | // \ \ | \// \ | /-------------\ -----------------------/ \ ----------------------/ \ / \ _____________/---------------------\_____________ / \ / \ \ / \_________________________________________________/ (___) (___) (___) (___) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) \ / \ / \ / \ / __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ (___) (___) (___) (___) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) \ / \ / \ / \ / __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __ V __ __[_V_]__ /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ (___) (___) (___) (___) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) \ / \ / \ / \ / __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===: \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (9) Have Microsoft and IBM been infiltrated by the Cows? Well whadda YOU think ? (__) (__) / oo _______ / @@ _______ | /\_| | \ | /\_| | \ | |___ | IBM PC | | |___ | IBM PC | | ---@ |________| | ---@ |________| * | | ---- | | | | ---- | | \ | |_____ | |_____ \|________| *____/|________| CompuCow CompuCow After an All-niter (__) (__) / -- _______ / .\/. _______ | /\_| | \ | /\_| | \ | |___ | IBM PC | | |___ | IBM PC | | ---@ |________| | ---@ |________| | | ---- | | * | | ---- | | | |_____ \ | |_____ *____/|________| \|________| CompuCow Asleep at the Keyboard CompuCow Discovers Bug in Compiler %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (10) Have the cows tried any clever new strategies? / / ... .":. .:"" "". / : :.: . "'.<""""> : ..: .:..<(=)(=)> / :..')) ; .'). )/~\( |\ '))) ))) \U/ / | \ \\ \ / / / \\ \ / / \\___\ / / \\ / \\ _______ / / \\ / _____ | / \\ / /(__) || / / \\ ________/ / |OO| || / \\ | |-------|| / \\ (| | -.|| \\ | ____ \ ||==================================O================ /| / __ \ |______|| / __ \ / __ \ | | / __ \ / __ \ |\ \|| / \ |_______________| / \ |_| / \ |__| |_____| / \ |__| / \|_|/ | () | | () | | () | | () | | () | \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ The Dreaded Mobile Cowtapult & Lemur Launcher aka Pusspussupflingermaschine COWBUOYS -------- * * ~~^^ ^^~ * * ~~^^ ~^^~ ~^~ ~^ ~^ ~^~~ * (__) * ~^~~ ~~ ~^^~ ^^^ ~ * (oo) * ~ ^^^ ~~^^~ ~~~^^ ^^~ ~~~~ ^^ ~ * \/ * ~~^^ ~^^~ ~^~ ~^ ~^ ~^~~ * * ~^~~ ~~~^^~ -cfbd- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ;~~~~~~~~~~~~~oo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ; o ; o ; o ; o ; oo ; o ; !__+ _;_________| |______ .[+(===_____________________) Moo-boats are using CowBuoys for surface surveillance. CowBuoys can be rotated through 360 degrees and give much clearer vision than the periscope. Also the Moo-boats can remain totally submerged during the continuous surveillance. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > (11) Are the lemurs actually stringing the cows along, laughing > from the shadows while the cows fumble about on their mad > dreams of world domination? Dunno......the cows seem to be enjoying the ride though ! ______________________ | |\ | (__) | | | (oo) | | | \/ | | | / \ \ | | ///////// \_ \_/////// | ... | | / | | .":. .:"" "". | /++++++< | | : :.: "'.<""""> |==/====|==\=\=========|=|========================== .:..<(o)(o)> | * | \ \ | | :..'.. .')) )/~\( | | \_\_ | | :: )) ; : \U/ ______\O)-----^---------------\O)________________')))___)))___________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Conclusion: Flying cows don't need to climb trees! ~~~~~~~~~~ Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ed49690db2ea64a5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> Subject: Re: the Five---Cornered COW Date: 1998/05/06 Message-ID: <894...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 350628193 References: <354...@on.spammer> <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com> <DGq...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <894...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <RnD...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <Pine.OSF.3.91.980505132141.14611B-100000@leofric> Organization: CLEAR Net, http://www.clear.net.nz/ User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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