I like the goats that fall over spontaneously.
Why are we discussing goats though?
Why are we discussing goats though?
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I like the goats that fall over spontaneously.
Why are we discussing goats though?
According to Stephen Fry on some QI episode the fainting goats were used to protect sheep: the shepherds would have several fainting goats among the sheep and if a wolf came the goat would faint, the wolf would eat it and the sheep would get away. Something like that.
those are mytonic or fainting goats, they only fall over when scared because their muscules contract or something and i started this thread because i love goat and want to know what other people think of them
That seems like an efficient way to remove that particular "feature" from the gene pool.
She made a soup out of it and kept the eyes for herself,
So if I buy 10 cans of goat meat and dent them slightly before putting them in the cupboard, then wait a couple of days before I open the cupboard again, will I get attacked by 10 small goats or will they merge into one freakish supergoat?
To eat or for pranks?
Black pudding is yummy. You missed out.
Had she run out of pickled onions?
Is "scapegoat" derived from "goat," and if so, why is the goat so maligned?
1530, "goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people," coined by Tyndale from scape (n.) + goat, to translate L. caper emissarius, a mistranslation in Vulgate of Heb. 'azazel (Lev. xvi:8,10,26), which was read as 'ez ozel "goat that departs," but is actually the proper name of a devil or demon in Jewish mythology (sometimes identified with Canaanite deity Aziz). Jerome's mistake also was followed by Martin Luther (der ledige Bock), Symmachus (tragos aperkhomenos), and others (cf. Fr. bouc émissaire). The Revised Version (1884) restores Azazel. Meaning "one who is blamed or punished for the mistakes or sins of others" first recorded 1824; the verb is attested from 1943.
During the festival of St. Vincent, the patron saint of Manganeses de la Polvorosa, a goat is thrown from the town's bell tower and caught in a tarp held by villagers.
The ritual reenacts a legend of a goat that belonged to a priest and its milk was given to the poor. One day the goat fell from the tower but was saved by villagers holding a blanket.
In a small town in Spain, a goat is tossed from the top of a tower and the village people catch it with a tarp. In recent times, the event has been cancelled.
Wait til this town discovers city-wide garage sales
Oklahoma letter to the editorThe city buys a lot of goats. Goats will eat about anything, so if they are staked out on the rights-of-way they will keep the weeds and grasses down to acceptable levels. Goats will also take care of all that trash along the rights-of-way. Now, you ask, who will take care of the goats? A person doesn't need a college degree to be a goat herder so how about we take inmates out of the county-supported free room and board program, and make them serve as our goat herders. When the growing season is over, sometime in October, the city could sponsor a Goat Fest. We have every other kind of festival so a Goat Fest would add yet another reason to get out in public and drink beer. Plus, we butcher those goats at season's end, serve them at the Goat Fest, charge a few dollars a plate, plus city sales tax, of course, and with the revenue we fix the streets. Tulsa could become the goat capital of the world. It does have a ring.