Making "guess the ethnically ambiguous person's ethnicity" into a game like that kind of makes me uncomfortable.

I hear that the mixed race student association at Berkeley does it as an icebreaker called "What Are You?" Because that's the weird question they have to deal with on a regular basis. Of course, it's different when you're among people that have the same issue. Insider/outsider etc.

Happy Birthdays, Burrell and Calli!

FWIW, it's all about the "bossy" and not about the "cow" for me. I don't think of my daughter as a cow. But she is bossy. And you know, cow's are named Bossie.

Taking a cat to the vet shouldn't be a two-person job. It wouldn't have been, if I could have gotten him into the carrier on my own. And of course when we got there, he had completely resigned himself to it all, and was perfectly behaved through an exam and three shots.

If someone called me a bossy cow, even as a joke, I would not take kindly to it at all.

I did not know Carol Channing was black. Ish. Huh.

I didn't know Carol Channing was white until I was in college, I think. Then I felt stupid.

I think "bos" or something close was Latin for "cow" and that's what started it.

I hear that the mixed race student association at Berkeley does it as an icebreaker called "What Are You?" Because that's the weird question they have to deal with on a regular basis. Of course, it's different when you're among people that have the same issue. Insider/outsider etc.

I get asked that all the time. (Although, now that I think about it, I can't remember anybody asking me that since I moved to Pennsylvania. Are people here just way more polite? Everywhere else I've lived, people asked me stuff like that a lot.)

I hadn't heard of Carol Channing until I got to university, so I had a late Carol start.

I knew about Carol Channing as a kid, because of Free to Be, You and Me! And probably some crappy variety shows, if not Hollywood Squares or something.

I think that's how I was aware of her. That, and possibly the Muppet Show?