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...Have trouble breaking spoken words into syllables, such as cowboy into cow...
...tale of how Marie Antoinette trod on her executioner's foot, then begged his pardon, has been told. But while "her defenders cite this as an example of her sturdy harmlessness, civil and without malice to the end," writes Steel, his own view is less charitable: "The feisty cow meant it." Steel doesn't limit his jibes to historical targets; he frequently invokes modern parallels - especially British establishment types - to emphasize a point. His mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained...
...because they drive their cows so hard," Edwards explains. He fishes around his barn's medicine cabinet, pulling out vitamin pills and aspirins the size of a man's thumb. There's a "microbial supplement," to help digestion, and Uddermint, a cream made with peppermint oil for soothing sore teats. At his feet is a jug of aloe-vera juice, which he'll shoot down a cow's throat to help relieve stress. That morning he whipped up a brew of rice water, garlic, salt and beef bouillon to treat a calf with diarrhea. To go organic, he says...
...sparked by stimulating discussions with fellow students and teaching fellows, are truly an intellectual wasteland. Required participation forces everyone to say something (whether constructive or not), and the talk usually devolves into a banal rehashing of the past week’s lectures. A typical section is like a cow chewing cud: ideas are digested a bit in one stomach, regurgitated briefly to be considered again, and finally swallowed. And the hated “response paper,” which asks students to reflect on the week’s reading in one short page, makes no pretense...
...girls follow a woman carrying a coffin-shaped purse and a man dressed like a cow into the theater, where they are greeted by a loud-mouthed woman wearing a ripped tank top bearing the word “Security...