Cow-On-A-Stick: Dashed Dreams in Rural Texas
59ok, the infamous cow-on-a-stick story
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the town I lived in and closest to now that I'm out in the country, has a cow-on-a-stick in the main square downtown. It's a huge metal pole with a giant metal and painted cow stuck on it, just what it sounds like.
there is a new one they put about 5 years ago, a bit smaller than the last one which was HUGE. they took the old one down and it was sitting on a mechanics lot for the longest time, all HUGE and cow-y and it had a 'for sale' sign on it, $1000.
I wanted this cow, all I could think was geeze, what a bargain. I had a dream, friends. I had a dream of buying the giant cow, cutting a windshield out of the chest, dropping in a motor and a horn and of driving this giant cow as a cow-car. then you could be like driving along and if someone was in your way, you could honk the horn "moooo-ve over". wouldn't that be neat?
except, ahem. I didn't have a thousand dollars or money to make it a cow car, even if it were possible and given all that, even if I could have afforded it, it was too big to go under the street lights. :(
another busted dream. story of my life. :|
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Cow-on-a-stick
Gazebo in the Park
Here's our gazebo in the park. I love this park. It has a jogging path and while I don't jog on it, I walk around it, or did until I moved, three or so times a week.
I count animals I see, raccoons and stuff, when I walk.
Jimmy, thank you. I'm not even that good of a researcher, apparently. :p
You found my cow-on-a-stick. Yay!!!
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Additional Credits
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You may blame Ralph Deeds for this one, and from this Hub. :D
I don't know if you are a good influence or a bad influence, Ralph, but you sure are fun~
:)
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Iðunn i was expecting some kind of barbeque beef recipe, but nothing like this, nice one lol.....jimmy
where i live,
there is a cow on a stick
standing over our town
watching it tick
black and white and 50 feet high
dont stand underneath when its making a pie.....have fun.....jimmy
roflmao!!!! oh, you outdid yourself. original scottish cow-on-a-stick poetry by jimmythejock. I feel honoured. :)
I suggest you do a websearch for your town Iðunn, you may find an image of your cow there.....jimmy
I'll take a look :)
Dont know what to say???
just be glad it's not you.
anytown rural texas, USA
a roller skating rink and a Dairy Queen, high school football is King, rodeo capitol of the world, and of course, the infamous cow-on-a-stick.
o help! laughing as usual! Funny this hub appeared. I went to bed last night trying to imagine your cow-on-a-stick mentioned in your other hub! I began to ask that famous question of life. "Why"? And then, this morning, like some miracle drifting on a cow cloud, here is the hub, giving me all the answers!
Great hub!
Smiles and Light
" Agriculture is the leading industry, contributing approximately $200,000,000 to the economy. Of that figure, the dairy industry accounts for approximately $140,000,000."
that's why. :p
Hahahahaha ! AWESOME ! I love the "cow car" idea.............moooove oooover..............!!!!!!!!! Very cool !
:) see, I knew I wasn't the only one who thought it was a great idea. My kids loved it, too.
Thx for reading, glad you got a laugh~
Oh Noes! Zombie Cow-On-A-Stick!! :O
:O :O :O I hate it when that happenz :(
At least it can't chase you. Perhaps the Cow-on-a-stick was made as a warning to the other cows. 8O
roflmao. I love that cow. You know, jimmy actually found MY cow. This is the one. I look at it, and maybe this is Moola2, hard to tell, I think maybe the first one had a wider chest, all the better for a windshield. :hmm:
I'm thinking less cow-mobile and more of a cow-motorcycle. Like a Hog, but bovine.
hahaha! if only it ran on recycleable fuel too. :)
Methane. :)
If I was a kid, I would love playing on it, under it, around it, in the garden. Or I don't have to be a kid; can do that now. Kids would envy someone with this beautiful cow!
yes. I should have known you would appreciate the overwhelming joyousness of this giant cow. it would have been a heckuva bargain. I wish I had had the $1000.
I bought a giant stuffed gorilla once for my youngest son that cost $100 (on sale, who could resist?) He still has it, he even took it with him when he moved out. He used it like a bean bag chair to watch t.v. or play video games, years and years and years off and on. in retrospect, I got well more than I bargained for and I wanted to kick myself in the butt at the time for spending that much.
and welcome to my exotic world, rural Texas. :welcome:
It is exotic!
A big stuffed gorilla and an indulgent Mom? Your boy is shore lucky!
(And overwhelming joyousness is right; wish I had thought of saying that!)
I spoiled them too much, rather hard for someone who was off and on as poor as I, but he works 60 hours plus a week now like a grown-up and started a real life on his own, so I guess I didn't do too much damage.
Hehe, no! I would ask everyone to spare the rod and spoil the child. I think that was the original meaning of the proverb. I am an indulgent parent, too! If someone bought me anything like the gorilla or the cow, I will never forget them in this life or the next!
:) :) :)
It was hard to see that one go. The baby. I still call him the baby, but he answers to almost anything because I love nicknames. His name is Benji and sometimes I call him Bungie, Benjamatic, Benjitsu.. different variations.
Once my daughter was in the kitchen when I was washing dishes and she said, "you need a new spongie" and ben yelled from the living room... "what?" he thought we were calling him. :o
Yeah, Iðunn, that's a Texas cow alright. Look at those bulletholes in it! Great hub, Iðunn, totally fun, harmless and nobody got hurt! Well, Okay, the cow got shot a few times. Obviously a justifiable shooting. Great hub.
In, Texas, all shootings are justifiable as long as you can drag it into your yard after ;)
Okay, so we have to start construction of the cowcar by mounting the cow on a skateboard or just plain roller skates. Then it'll have the necessary wheels. Link the wheels to four hydraulic motors using drive chains inside the cow's legs. It would be udderly beautiful!
Yeah, Iðunn , "click and drag" technology has been taken to new levels in Texas.
It would be! See, I knew I was on the right track with this. :) And talk about safe, you could put your teenager in it and be sure they never get hurt.
Anyway, we love thingz bigger in Texas. :p
and no, rumour has it everyone here has seen some kind of UFO all around me. I didn't. I was inside writing cow-on-a-stcik and blowfish hubs and mooning around about my lover. I didn't find out until Father mentioned it in Mass. :p
Melancholy Cow-on-a-stick, a reject from the merry-go-round. You weren't as slick as the horses-on-a-stick, you were dumpy and bumpy. The children cried, and pulled away, and now you wait here, along the fence behind the carousels and cotton-candy booths, among discarded hot dog wrappers and stale popcorn...waiting for the Mother Carousel from another Galaxy to rescue you and take you to the Big Green Field in the Sky.
Fear not, Great Cow-on-a-stick. For the Aliens-on-a-stick cometh!
an entire range of cow-on-a-stick emotions in one stunning piece of prose, sadness, fear, grief, and then finally hope.
:) yay, rogue!
four emotions, four stomachs! Go Cows!
"that worked out rather neatly," she said compactly. I'd say up the Cow-on-a-stick Revolution but they are already 'upped'. :D
Udderly fascinating! :p
quite mooo-ving, indeed. almost simpsonesque "cowabunga, dude!"
LOL!
I'm reacting to your 'spongie' reply. As late as ever. :)
ah no worries. I tend to run in message board mode anyway. that's what I'm accustomed to. people come and go, conversations stall and re-start and it's all no worries m8. :)
yeah, we still snicker at that over here, me and his sister~
Nice snickering family, much better than the sobbing kind! :)
have to agree. we are a silly and giggly bunch over here. it's pretty fun. :D
Us too! Great to know people as mad as us! :D
if it's madness, more power to us. beats drudgery, anger, bitterness or misery any day of the week. I told you magic was useful and worth fighting for.
we play words, weird ideas, movie quotes, mixing and matching off and on all the time. you see me and my friend rogue do something quite similar here... that's what it is like around my house, much of the time, if the children are around.
Ha! Ha! Cowabunga!
:) glad you stopped in, ralph~
That's some cow! No bull.
lolz, nice pun. :D
I'm an ol' cowhand - From the Rio Grande - Don't know any girls - So I date a man - He's a big, strong fella and his name is Luke - We like to go out and dance till we puke - yippi ki yi yo----yippi ki yi ya - even our horse - is a little bit gay!
roflmao! my favorite songwriter offerz his lyrical contribution. :D :D
i just came back from texas
did you enjoy your visit?
I saw a cow dance
in the grass to music so
udderly divine
a world of cow cars
could no doubt defeat a whole
line up of street lights
the cows drove along
country roads to see people
lazing in green fields
nice :) how oddly 'planet of the apes'. :p
there was a great cow-tastrophe. :p
that's the sad reality of dealing with HUGE plastic cowz. :(
What a darling story.....love it, I was at first very cowtious to read it, but very glad I did!
thx, d.j. glad you got a smile.
It was a Trojan cow, and when the citizens accepted it into their midst, the cowlings crawled out and infested the town. :(
pretty much. :p
I've seen it happen before and it's not a pretty sight. :(
Gives whole new meaning to the word cowpoke. :O
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do you ever just miss living in cities? gah. rural life is so... rural.
:(
Iðunn, that car of yours looks as if it wouldn't handle very well. I'll bet that in a tight curve, it would just go udders-up! Well, I actually know a better word but am probably not allowed to use it here.
hahaha. yeah, but it would have plusses too. people wouldn't pull out in front of you, cut you off in traffic, or run stop signs in front of you. on the off chance you did get into an accident, it would best any Duly or SUV on the road.
Hi. I would like to image this great cow wearing sunglasses while it stands in the middle of a blue bonnet field. :)
ah, that would be great. :D maybe something surreal in the background too, like 3 moons or suns.
I'm glad you stopped in to enjoy my rural cultural experience. :)
I love the cow on a stick thing. The park is beautiful too. I'd love to have a fiberglass cow in my yard, just to freak out the neighbors.
I like the way you think :D yeah, that park is lovely. they have a children's playground there, and baseball fields and a creek runs through it. it's a grand walk, about a mile all the way around the foot path. and in my small town, completely safe. :)
The nice thing about Cows-On-A-Stick is that they stay right where you put them. You never have to worry about misplacing your cow again!
yet another distinct advantage. you don't have to worry about a messy yard either.
I hear though, that they turn to face the sun.
I hope they don't go too lopsided from that effect. if it fell over, I could never stand it back up. :O
Hence the stick. Not just attractive, it also serves a purpose. :)
you know how I love the multi-purpose - sticks: they're not just for pleasure anymore!
:O
Anything on a stick is appealling. I wonder if we can get Politician-On-A-Stick?
we might soon at this rate. :p you know who goes bonkers don't you? not the poor, they are used to being poor and don't expect anything better. the poor never lead the Revolution.
it's the disenfranchised middle class that revs them up (so to speak). they tend to feel entitled to what they have currently and any decrease in standard of living enrages them as they feel they have "better character" than the lowly poor. part of that GOP mentality thing about bootstraps.
it's a new world for them now and they created it. I hope they enjoy it. ;)
When the crap hits the fan, we all end up as the same people, victims of political corruption and incompetence. :(
they are reaping what they have sown. when you state that children as a group aren't valuable enough for our country to feed, that disabled and disabled veterans are a drain, that elderly have no right to a secure future yada yada.
in some other hub I likened this to attacks on the homeless increasing. when we devalue any group of people, we devalue ourselves. sometimes it just takes a while for the consequences to catch up to the actions.
It takes pretty low self esteem to victimize the helpless, poor and elderly in order to feel like big strong powerful leaders.
I offer you the idunnian "tend to agree".
Wow! I wish my town had a giant cow we could all enjoy. Whenever friends come to visit I could say if you pass the giant cow on a stick then you went to far. I love your cow car idea.
hehe, thanks!
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Iðunn says:
2 years ago
ralph, I blame you for this one. :D