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.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2011 2:14:47 pm PDT #2259 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Amy - Oct 19, 2011 2:16:02 pm PDT #2260 of 30001
Because books.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 19, 2011 2:18:56 pm PDT #2261 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
javachik - Oct 19, 2011 2:19:55 pm PDT #2262 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I think "bos" or something close was Latin for "cow" and that's what started it.
Hil R. - Oct 19, 2011 2:20:22 pm PDT #2263 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.)
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2011 2:20:59 pm PDT #2264 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hadn't heard of Carol Channing until I got to university, so I had a late Carol start.
Amy - Oct 19, 2011 2:22:17 pm PDT #2265 of 30001
Because books.
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.
Anne W. - Oct 19, 2011 2:22:50 pm PDT #2266 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I think that's how I was aware of her. That, and possibly the Muppet Show?
le nubian - Oct 19, 2011 2:23:15 pm PDT #2267 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Google+ to allow nyms.
well, they have had a lot of criticism and people leaving Google+ in droves so they had to do something.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 19, 2011 2:23:38 pm PDT #2268 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
She also seemed to appear on random things singing "Hello Dolly" all the time. And I think she might have been on the Muppets.