Get a load o' this one...

I live near a "cattle improvement facility" called "Select Sires" where they
collect beef bull semen for artificial insemination.  They freeze the stuff
then ship it around the world, ostensibly to "improve" beef cattle herds.

Well, they've got these "grade" bulls (you know, bulls that drive beater
pickups, drink lots of Bud Light on the weekends, would be working at the
mill if it wasn't for this Select Sires gig).  Anyway, they give these boys
a vasectomy and turn 'em out with these high-class ($20K and up) cows.  When
the humans see the good ole' boys making time with a particular cow, they
know she's good to go.  So the blue-collar bull gets put in a separate pen
with his buddies.  They, of course, bum a cigarette from their hooligan
friends and tell lies about "how she thought I was the greatest thing since
sliced hay."

In the meantime, Mr. 'I've-got-perfect-genes' bull gets introduced to
Mademoiselle. 'Cept when he goes to make his James Bond move, some humanoid
grabs his Precious and places it, indelicately, in a glass cow.  Poor guy.
It just ain't right.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:36 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AFO?


Hi Betty,

          Literal translation is spotted animals - I persume they are
talking about the black and white polka dotted cows. Umm, I don't actually
know how one makes cows - except maybe putting a boy cow and and a girl cow
together? This works for people, cats and dogs. Could be they do like they
do with horses and  have very special boy horses to make the new horses.
Animal husbandry isn't exactly anything I have checked up on. Sorry

                                       Brightest Blessings
                                            Trisha

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