Aaron,

        I went to college at Texas A&M, where the men are men and the sheep are
nervous.  No, I never tipped a cow -- my earlier post was a shameless
brag -- but I knew a few people in college who *CLAIMED* to have done
so, one even blaming a dislocated shoulder on the practice.

        There's a Mr. Know-it-all column in our local alternative weekly  --
Cecil Adams??? -- that discussed cow tipping a while back.  The
conclusion, I believe, was that it is an urban(rural) legend.

Robert

Aaron Sugarman wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-08-21 16:31:11 EDT, you write:
>
> <<   Aaron, your option number 1 sounds alot like something called "cow
>  tipping" here in Texas.  It *IS* dangerous and I gave that up after
>  college. ;-) >>
>
> I never met anyone who actually tipped a cow, is it a real phenomenon, and do
> the cows really have a hard time getting up?
>
> Aaron