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The moocow in the bloody road!
egon Started conversation Mar 16, 2004
Really just to help Master B's appetite for oddball subject lines 
My politics of welfare lecture this afternoon included lengthy debates about just how crap a writer james Joyce was, kids TV shows of the 1980s, Spanish politics, the Florida ballots in the 200 US presidential election and the England Cricket team skittling the west indies.
Oh, and there was some politics of welfare hidden in there somewhere as well.
And, for my US Political History module, I've got the go-ahead to do my book review on Hunter S Thompson's classic "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail '72".
The moocow in the bloody road!
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 16, 2004
... And there was me expecting a thread from Odo moaning about milking times.
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
*wiping eyes sleepily*
I could've sworn that said "The moscow in the bloody road!"
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 16, 2004
Panic not, I read it that way first time round as well.
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egon Posted Mar 16, 2004
I can see how that might happen. It is, however, a reference to the truly excruciating opening passage to James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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egon Posted Mar 16, 2004
Ah, found it:
"Chapter 1
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt."
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
Ahh...ringing very dull bells in the back of my head...
...I thought it was a bad travel story...
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hellboundforjoy Posted Mar 17, 2004
"200 US presidential election" That would be 224 not 200. What are they teaching you over there?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 17, 2004
Sounds like a book to go straight to the top of my 'must read' list
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Odo Posted Mar 17, 2004
I don't think I've ever referred to cattle of any sort as moocows, ever!!!! Sounds like a great townie cuddly countryside opening.
Or should this be one of ‘those’ books I books I ought to have heard of?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 17, 2004
I think my grandmother used to call them moocows when I was a toddler, but aside of that I always think of it as a piss-take term, akin to "fluffy wuffy bunny wabbits".
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Odo Posted Mar 17, 2004
As bad as friend of mine who always referred to the horsey worsey in the field next to the village school.
Mind you I think Egon’s go the right idea……. 
How many animals were there in the story of Chicken Licken?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 17, 2004
Otherwise known as "the big evil thing with a kick like a sledgehammer".
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 17, 2004
Otherwise known as one of my ex-girlfriends.
B
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dasilva Posted Mar 17, 2004
I'm sorry but after seeing Therapy? in concert a couple of years ago I just can't take Joyce seriously 
(Ref: the song "Potato Junkies")
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tanzen Posted Mar 17, 2004
We always used to call them moocows when we were kids, and that's what we used to call them with the new kids...moocows and baalambs...
...of course once they're old enough we stop 
daSilva, I'm going to have to find that song now, aren't I 
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