Word: cowed
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...interesting thing is that very few people will claim that they personally have ever tipped a cow...
There's a good reason for this discrepancy: Cow tipping is a myth. It can't be done...
GROWING up on a farm, one quickly learns three things: First, cattle do not sleep standing up. They lie down. Horses sleep standing up. Second, when cows get down on their backs, they are perfectly capable of getting back up. It's sheep that sometimes have problems. Third, nothing smaller than a bulldozer can knock over a standing cow...
...every time I tried to set my classmates straight, they told me about some "friend" who swears he went cow-tipping regularly in high school. Harvard students, who fancy themselves the intellectual elite of the nation, seem convinced of the joys of toppling sleeping cows...
Once I met someone who claimed she did the deed herself. Pressing her further, however, she conceded that she didn't actually succeed in finding a sleeping cow to tip, but that had gone out with some "friends" in a good-faith effort to do so. (Not incidentally, the "friends" swore they had done it before...