May corresponded with Anglo-Saxon Ðrimilcemonað, 'month of three milkings'. "So called because in this month the cattle were milked three times a day,' comments Bede, 'such was the fertility of Britain or Germany, from whence the English nation came to Britain.'Parsing the word Ðrimilcemonað is easy in German: Drei/Milche/Monat => three/milk/month
Speaking of cows and milk, EBL's blog has a great round up of Baltimore-related links, including the legal blogs.
EBL's masthead is an H.L. Mencken quote:
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.H.L. Mencken was of course closely associated with Baltimore and its greatest newspaper, The Baltimore Sun.
[Added] The faces of the accused at EBL. More than three milkings per diem!
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I'm not sure how Mencken knew that cows "enjoyed" being milked.
Well, if I'm pulling your nipples and you don't run away, I'm gonna assume you like it. Bill Cosby told me that's how you can tell.
It's a messy business.
Mike Rowe showed how milking a cow is done a few days ago. He showed what is involved with hooking up a cow to a sucking machine. And that's why the telly is called boob tube. The other reason is the cow pooped right when Mike was hooking it up, it's a mess, and poo got onto the freshly wiped udder and everyone goes, boo boo, not just me, everyone, and together it sounds like a crowd boobooboobooboobooboo on the tube. Honestly, it's enough to put you off milk permanently and they said these cows make a gallon a day. They're locked in and feeding, so distracted somewhat, but there someone is fooling around with their tits. Eating and pooping and being milked at the same time as having a ride, ah, the life of a modern-day cow. (Until their "unhappy" day.) Then the people stop fooling around on the cows and the sucking machine works on its own as the cows rotate arranged next to each other as spokes on a wheel and with no parallaxes experienced by the cows because their heads are locked in and their view remains the same as they rotate around the great room to the end when the humans again become active around them and disengage the equipment from their breasteses hanging pendently and swinging pendulumly and people herd the cattle away singing, ♬ I been working in the milkhouse all the live-long day. I've been working in the milkhouse just to pass the time away. Don't you hear the cows a-mooing? Rise up early in the morn. Can't you hear the cows a-pooping, Milkman don't you touch my horns.
The Chinese version of this is immense with hundreds of cows riding at once on a much larger circular platform in far larger round house and it makes you wonder, Jeeze, wouldn't they be finished 1/4 of the way through? Or is this some king of trick as with fish eye lenses or mirrors or what? I'll post the video because it's really neat. And upsetting. And neat. And upsetting. So you go, why do I even eat food?
No. It makes you go, I'm going to try for better ingredients. Not necessarily prime ingredients but at least primary ingredients. And do a bit better with all that. Although I object to paying $30 for a farm-raised local chicken, I don't mind paying more for good ones. You can tell the difference in the broth you make with its carcass. One carcass and the pitcher is 100% thick chicken aspic and very flavorful.
Thanks Chick!
And GoFundMe told those Cops they could Go F*** Themselves. So they are nortioous criminals now just like that Florist in Richland, WA and that baker in Oregon.
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