These guys are my neighbours

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:02 am

I saw three sheeps come sailing in on Christmas day, on Christmas day.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:15 am

Walden wrote:I saw three sheeps come sailing in on Christmas day, on Christmas day.

Ouch!

"A man who puns would pick a pocket", you know.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:25 am

djm wrote:Der ships, nod guts.

OK -- gonzo is not so big a man that he cannot admit that he doesn't know the difference between sheeps and goats without turning them over and checking the label. (But those sure do look like evil goat eyes.)

So -- Are these outdoor sheeps or indoor sheeps?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:16 am

gonzo914 wrote:So -- Are these outdoor sheeps or indoor sheeps?

Who gives a sheep, anyhow!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:21 am

Goats and sheep have the same kind of "slot" eyes.
The Chinese don't distinguish: there is only one character in Chinese to signify the animal which may be either a sheep or a goat.
From this I suspect that the Chinese must operate a different sense of smell from the rest of us...

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:50 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:
Walden wrote:I saw three sheeps come sailing in on Christmas day, on Christmas day.

Ouch!

"A man who puns would pick a pocket", you know.

"Punning is the number 1 form of humor. And there's nothing lower than 1." --Somebodyoranother

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:18 pm

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:14 pm

What are those sheep doing up in the trees?

djm

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:29 pm

SteveShaw wrote:You have hit the nail on the head there - that's them all right! White tips to the tails too. I can hardly resist jumping over the fence to give their coats a damn good ruffling but they're not quite up for that yet. Has any beast on the planet got a coat that you want to ruffle more than these?

Umm, well . . . ahem! . . . I can think of one possibility, but those are probably closer to you . . .

<-----------Indoor sheep . . . Please note absence of "slot eyes."

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:49 pm

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:30 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:Goats and sheep have the same kind of "slot" eyes.
The Chinese don't distinguish: there is only one character in Chinese to signify the animal which may be either a sheep or a goat.
From this I suspect that the Chinese must operate a different sense of smell from the rest of us...

I passed it through a few Chinese translators. It looks like a goat is a 'mountain sheep'

Steve, can you smell them from your place?

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:41 am

No, but as there's an east wind today I can smell the pig farm over the road. It's disgusting!

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:52 am

Man, I thought everything was perfect in Cornwall from your previous descriptions. A pig farm can be truly horrible, almost as bad as a battery poultry farm.

djm

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:06 am

The ridiculous thing is that pigs, left to behave naturally, are clean and fastidious animals. It's modern farming practices (as usual - don't get me started

) that cause the problem.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:54 pm

djm wrote:A pig farm can be truly horrible, almost as bad as a battery poultry farm.

djm

Worse, if it's Pickton's Pig Farm. Looks like they're gonna try him for a few murders at a time. Echhhhhh....