So (whitefont for the bestiality-squeemish):

farmer saw Bennett in a crouching position behind the struggling goat, engaging in thrubbing movements while holding down the animal.

Is "thrubbing" a word?

eta: thrubbing x-post

C'mon! That's so funny I gave myself a headache laughing at it!

Poor goat. There's a mannish water joke to be made there, but I can't breathe long enough to make it.

snicker

Also, yay for baby Violet. Not a bad name either. Yay Jen 'n Ben!

Salaried staff here get 6 paid holidays, and a minimum of 10 days vacation. I think I get 19 or 20 now. There's an additional 8-16 vacation hours as part of our holiday bonus, depending on how well the company is doing. And everyone gets 10 days of sick leave. Everything rolls over, and is paid out if you leave the company.

But a large portion of our staff is not salaried. I believe they get something that's a lot like dick.

I believe they get something that's a lot like dick.

Thrubbing?

Or goats.

I think there needs to be a band called "Goat Thrubber." Or a Disney movie called "Son of Thrubber."

Too much sharing.

I get 20 days of vacation plus 9 regular and 1 floating holiday a year. The problem is, only 15 days of vacation can be carried over past New Year's (well, extended to June 1 in 2006), overtime work earns comp time which counts toward the 15 day limit instead of actual money, and there's much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands if I try to take even a single day off.

I'd be thrilled by the comp time setup if I weren't always overloaded to the point that regular days off I try to schedule get deep-sixed. But comp time only works as an incentive for extra work if they actually let you take the time off.

I think there's a song in here somewhere. "We used to bungle in the jungle, but now it's just thrubbery in the shrubbery.."