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It's About the Cows (Awful Hard to Resist this Piece of Philosophy!)
Nov 17, 2003

Posted on 11/17/2003 3:16:49 PM PST by publius1

DEMOCRAT You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So?

SOCIALIST You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have down sized and are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch and drink wine. Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You have some vodka. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts. Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital.

IRAQI CORPORATION You have two cows. They go into hiding. They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION You have two bulls. Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

FLORIDA CORPORATION You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best looking cow.

CALIFORNIAN You have a cow and a bull. The bull is depressed. It has spent its life living a lie. It goes away for two weeks. It comes back after a taxpayer-paid sex-change operation. You now have two cows. One makes milk; the other doesn't. You try to sell the transgender cow. Its lawyer sues you for discrimination. You lose in court. You sell the milk-generating cow to pay the damages. You now have one rich, transgender, non-milk-producing cow. You change your business to beef. PETA pickets your farm. Jesse Jackson makes a speech in your driveway. Cruz Bustamante calls for higher farm taxes to help "working cows." Hillary Clinton calls for the nationalization of 1/7 of your farm "for the children." Gray Davis signs a law giving your farm to Mexico. The L.A. Times quotes five anonymous cows claiming you groped their teats. You declare bankruptcy and shut down all operations. The cow starves to death. The L.A. Times' analysis shows your business failure is Bush's fault.

IT SUPPORT You have 2 cows. You're paid to build, support, fix, maintain, and show users how to milk the cows. The users rarely listen to your instructions and they break the cows.

The manufacturer realizes there are critical flaws in the cows. You upgrade your 2 cows for one new super cow. The users rarely listen to your instructions and they break the cow. The manufacturer realizes there are critical flaws in the cow. You quit and become a sheep herder.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: twocows
Sorry, but I couldn't resist this, it's so on the money (forgive the pun). Besides I love cow-analogies. And, it seems to me I've seen some of these comments from my collegues on this site!
1 posted on 11/17/2003 3:16:49 PM PST by publius1
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To: publius1
You may love cow analogies, but did you know that he who washes an Ass's head loses both his time and his soap?
2 posted on 11/17/2003 3:21:52 PM PST by Batrachian
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To: publius1

We're sick of see these cow analogies. If you don't cut it out, we are coming to get you.

3 posted on 11/17/2003 3:23:09 PM PST by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: publius1
Well said.
4 posted on 11/17/2003 3:24:54 PM PST by FastCoyote
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To: publius1
It's all so...udderly predictable, isn't it?
5 posted on 11/17/2003 3:30:47 PM PST by sourcery (No unauthorized parking allowed in sourcery's reserved space. Violators will be toad!)
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To: publius1
Enough with the cows...

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6 posted on 11/17/2003 3:36:34 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: socal_parrot
Didn't know we were so long on cows here. I'll be more bearish in the future.
7 posted on 11/17/2003 3:38:40 PM PST by publius1 (Almost as if he likes it...)
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To: publius1
Moo..


8 posted on 11/17/2003 3:42:07 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: publius1
MOOOORE COOOOWSSS!
9 posted on 11/17/2003 4:19:58 PM PST by FreedomFarmer (Extreme Cow Racing Champion.)
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