[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Bruce Freeman]

Andy -

Why don't you just TRIM HIS HORNS!  Polling has long been done in cattle.
You don't even need to go to that extreme.  You can round the end or even
fit it with a screw-on metal ball.  He'd still be able to butt, but not to
impale.

Meanwhile (Mark Williams - are you listening?) I think I'll let Andy visit
me and not visit him.  I'm not sure I've ever noticed Andy's "boundaries."
I think we can expect Bibi to be cooking up a little caprine stew anytime
now.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> Well aware of all that.  He is on about 8 fenced acres, so I can largely
> ignore him.  I always have a .357 on my hip, so if he really poses an
> immediate threat of death to me, I can stop him... I think. :)
>
> Thanks for the concern.  I like Ed.  I hate him, too.  It's a strange
> relationship.  Hopefully he gets Trixie and Laura good and pregnant soon
> and calms his stupid self down for the winter... not that I'd relax or
> anything, mind you.  But he's 2 or 3 now - prime time for butchering....
> not that I'd eat manky tasting goat.  Couldn't eat him anyway - it'd be
> like eating one of my friends.  I mean, could anyone here imagine me
> popping Bruce or Mark Williams one and having them for dinner?  Even *I*
> have boundaries.
>
> Wesley Marquart wrote:
> > I know this is [way OT], Andrew, I think you really need to reconsider
> > keeping 'Ed' around.  SERIOUSLY!  (yes I'm shouting!)
> >
> > If he is getting aggressive to you, he will eventually be aggressive to
> > others.  I don't know if you have kids, grandkids, or neighbor kids - but
> > please remember those horns can kill an adult.  I don't even want to
> imagine
> > what they would do to a little one.
> >
> > 'nuff said.  I don't want to start a war.
> >
> > Wes
> >
> > Andrew Vida wrote:
> >> I do, however, know what it smells like.  Ed will pee on me if
> >> I'm not careful.  Got me real good once.  I was instant shower fodder.
> >> And boy is he mean now.... tis' girlie season and he no longer puts up
> >> with any guff from me.  Two hundred pounds of mean with really nasty
> >> horns and a very quick neck.  Damned near deboweled me one day in
> >> August.  I popped him in the head with one of my 20# hand-forged digging
> >> bars (smithing content) hard enough to kill any human being on the
> >> planet, to be sure.  He didn't much like that, but it just made him want
> >> to kill me.  He started pawing at the earth like a bull.  That's when I
> >> got some religion and sailed over the fence.  Our relationship has
> >> been... erm.... "different" ever since.  I think he now tolerates me
> >> more than anything.  He sure doesn't fear me any longer.
> >
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Bruce
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