The Real Reason Highland Cattle Have Long Hair
Feather Dusters • Tool Talk • The Final Descent
One Minute Wit
Feather Dusters
I recently bought a feather duster.
What a waste of money.
The chickens don’t like it at all.
They keep running away when I try to use it on them.
I guess I’ll have to be content with dusty chickens.
Doodle
Tool Talk
Tools love puns.
50-Word Story
The Final Descent
The jet engines ingested several birds.
Quick blasts of flames were followed by the smell of burned flesh in the cabin.
A collective gasp, then eerie silence.
We started to dive.
Flight attendants shouted out instructions.
Amidst screams, I took my wife’s hand, forced a smile, and began to pray.
This was my first attempt at microfiction. I cheated a little. The story was loosely based on a flight my wife and I took many years ago. The first three lines are basically what we experienced on take-off. Except it was only one engine that flamed out, not both. Then after a too-long silence, the pilot came on the intercom and told us we were returning to the airport. It took a lot of coaxing to get my wife on the replacement airplane. She hates flying. And I worked for airlines for 27 years. LOL!
Jude, The Animal Expert Dude
The Real Reason Highland Cattle Have Long Hair
If you ever travel to Scotland and drive on one of their many narrow roads. Roads where you might have accidentally rubbed the side of your rental car against a stone wall running alongside the road. And although you tell the rental company that you are not used to driving on the wrong side of the road—very narrow roads, mind you. And that you were in imminent danger of hitting a passing vehicle motoring the other direction, they still expect you to pay for damages.
Then you may have spotted a cow with long, wavy orangish-brown hair and long curvy horns. These are Highland Cattle, a breed of cow native to Scotland.
Upon sighting this wondrous creature, you probably wondered why they have such long wavy hair. Many scientists believe it is due to the northern climate where they roam. While this seems obvious, leading animal scholars, such as myself, are obligated to look beyond the obvious and find the more interesting, truer answers.
I have done extensive research on the topic and discovered that before the 17th century, highland cattle had short hair. Then by chance, one of the cows learned to whistle. It enjoyed whistling so much that it taught three other cows how to whistle. They began writing their own whistling songs and toured the highlands performing for the other cows. They called themselves “The Peeples.”
In order to attract the attention of other cows and hopefully get them to attend shows, they started growing their hair longer. Each of the four had its own hairstyle. They became very popular.
Soon all the young cows began growing their hair long. Eventually, it became so commonplace that no one thought anything of it.
The Peeples eventually got sick of each other and “the trail.” They broke up, but long hair remained a part of highland cattle culture.
Even now, if you wear a highland grass suit and lay very still on the ground for multiple days, you are likely to hear one of the cows whistle one of the old Peeples songs.
That is the real reason Highland Cattle have long hair.
— Jude The Animal Expert Dude
Happy Monday.
Mark
The Peeples! 🤣🤣🤣
Re: The Final Descent — Oh Mark, your poor wife! Do you still fly together, or do you enjoy traveling at ground level more now?