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IluvAltaBeef
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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: It's good to be around cattle again (lots of pix). |
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Haven't seen these fellers for a couple months, they've grown and lost their winter coats since I last seen them. Oh yeah, and I think they missed me, cause they were following me everywhere I went, I'd be taking a pic of one thing and a steer would be behind sniffing an' lickin at me. I didn't realize till today how much I missed that. AND the other thing I noticed with these steers is that they're much more, I guess, friendlier than before. THey still keep their distance and don't threaten me, though. 
Okay, now for the pics.
Wondering where the heck I was all this time??
Sayin hi
A couple red angus's
Curiousity
Taste testing my glove. I got eight or nine BA's that are just as friendly as that. 
CharX peering over the fence
A$$ ends of a couple Blacks and a char
Brockle-face
My followers
Roachback HerfX
The three black stooges, with their side kicks
Char-BA-X at the bale and a BA-X
Char fight over pecking order
Char-simmi X...a freindly bugger, but a kicker if startled
Simmi-Angus-andsomethingelse-X and others
Shortie-Angus-simmi....lets call him a Heinz 57-X, with the head of a SimmiX inthe forground and a bunch of others in the back.
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kolanuraven
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Man...you got some serious mud there!!!!
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Judith
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kolanuraven
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| ...and here I thought Ga had ' dips' on mud!!!
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Judith
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Soapweed
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| kolanuraven wrote: |
| ...and here I thought Ga had ' dips' on mud!!! |
Which of these meanings applies?  
dip(dp)
v. dipped, dip·ping, dips
v.tr.
1. To plunge briefly into a liquid, as in order to wet, coat, or saturate.
2. To color or dye by immersing: dip Easter eggs.
3. To immerse (a sheep or other animal) in a disinfectant solution.
4. To form (a candle) by repeatedly immersing a wick in melted wax or tallow.
5. To galvanize or plate (metal) by immersion.
6. To scoop up by plunging the hand or a receptacle below the surface, as of a liquid; ladle: dip water out of a bucket.
7. To lower and raise (a flag) in salute.
8. To lower or drop (something) suddenly: dipped my head to avoid the branch.
9. Slang To pick the pockets of.
v.intr.
1. To plunge into water or other liquid and come out quickly.
2. To plunge the hand or a receptacle into liquid or a container, especially so as to take something up or out: I dipped into my pocket for some coins.
3. To withdraw a small amount from a fund: We dipped into our savings.
4. To drop down or sink out of sight suddenly: The sun dipped below the horizon.
5. To drop suddenly before climbing. Used of an aircraft.
6. To slope downward; decline: The road dipped.
7. To decline slightly and usually temporarily: Sales dipped after Christmas.
8. Geology To lie at an angle to the horizontal plane, as a rock stratum or vein.
9.
a. To read here and there at random; browse: dipping into Chaucer.
b. To investigate a subject superficially; dabble: dipped into psychology.
10. Slang To steal by picking pockets.
n.
1. A brief plunge or immersion, especially a quick swim.
2. A liquid into which something is dipped, as for dyeing or disinfecting.
3. A savory creamy mixture into which crackers, raw vegetables, or other foods may be dipped.
4. An amount taken up by dipping.
5. A container for dipping.
6. A candle made by repeated dipping in tallow or wax.
7. A downward slope; a decline.
8. A sharp downward course; a drop: a dip in prices.
9. Geology The downward inclination of a rock stratum or vein in reference to the plane of the horizon.
10.
a. Linguistics A part of a phrase or sentence that is unstressed or less strongly stressed relative to surrounding words, as the words I and to in I have to go.
b. Poetry The unstressed portion of a metrical foot.
11. Magnetic dip.
12. A hollow or depression.
13. Sports A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered by bending the elbows until the chin reaches the level of the bars and then is raised by straightening the arms.
14. Slang A pickpocket.
15. Slang A foolish or stupid person.
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Soapweed
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| kolanuraven wrote: |
| ...and here I thought Ga had ' dips' on mud!!! |
Do you possibly mean "dibs"?  
Dibs is a slang term used to stake a claim on something. Calling dibs is typically done by yelling "Dibs", on the desired object. The system operates mostly on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For the most part, calling 'dibs' on something that is going to happen in the late future is not acceptable, but things that are fast approaching are. At any rate, even if no one accepts the dibber's dibs, that person is still announcing their intent to have dibs on the thing they have called. As an example, when planning to leave on a trip the next day a call of "dibs on shotgun" would normally be rejected, but if that person gets to the front seat first, there is little anyone else can do. Similarly, it may be acceptable for someone to say on the ride home "dibs on the bathroom", because it is something happening in the present or near future (plus, that person has implied that they have to go to the bathroom).
In the United Kingdom and Ireland "Bagsy" (or "Bagsie" or "Bags") is used to the same effect, although "dibs" is also used on occasion. Bagsy or bags started out as "Bags I", according to the Oxford English Dictionary which gives school-related examples from 1866 onward. Similarly, bag or bags can be used informally as a verb meaning claim in a phrase like "I'll bag the best seats". This is related to bag meaning to 'put something in a bag'.
In New Zealand and Australia the word "bags" is used to the same effect. "Bagsy" and "dibs" are used occasionally with the same meaning. When calling bags, one will not usually include the word "on" - "Bags ____ing" is used in the case of verbs, and "Bags the ____" in the case of nouns. Bags is of particular use in opting out of an undesirable task, when saying "Bags not me" before anyone else in the group will exclude one from having to do that task. Young children often use bags in this way in the song "Turn around, touch the ground, bags not me!".
[edit] "No dibs" or "Dibs out"
"No dibs" or "Dibs out" is usually called when an undesirable chore or action is brought up. Convention holds that while calling "no dibs" one must place a finger to their nose, or sometimes a thumb to the forehead. The last person to call "No dibs" is then required to perform the action or chore. It is, in a sense, the antithesis of dibs. In some places, "Not me" or "Not it" is more commonly used than "No dibs." In certain children's games (such as tag), this morphs into the term "Not it" (where, once a game is declared, the last person to yell "Not it!" becomes "it"). Often 'not it' will be proceeded by counting to three, so to prepare those in the know to get ready to say 'not it' and get in before the last person to do so, who is then 'it'. In some areas, the phrase "Nose goes" is preferred. After a declaration of "nose goes", everyone must hurry to touch their nose with their index finger, whereby the last one to do it becomes "it". If the last person to touch their nose is not found out quickly enough, the last person can call out "Chins Wins." The game has changed to whoever can simultaneously touch their nose with their index finger and their chin with their thumb, the last one here is then "it."
[edit] "Not it"
Calling "not it" in a group of people when a less than desirable task comes up. The last person to say "not it" in fact is "it" and must perform the task without fail or whining. The only time a person is expempt from the "not it" game is if that person has already performed the task once prior that day and the same task comes up again.
A variation of "not it" involves placing one's finger to one's nose when calling "not it". Both calling "not it" and placing one's finger on one's nose are considered requirements for a successful call of "not it" in this variation.
[edit] "Shot not"
"Shot not" is used the same way as "No dibs" or "Dibs out." Sometimes touching the nose is required.
[edit] "Lay lay"
Lay Lay is a term used by children and teens in areas of low socio-economic areas of the Western United States and possibly other regions. The term, mainly used by African-Americans, is used very similarly to dibs, however, Lay Lay can be called on another's property if the owner has not yet called it.
It is most always used to claim food or candy but can be called in substitution of shot-gun or dibs. Often the person calling lay lay must be touching the object being called at the time of the claim.
The term may have derived from the term Lay-away. A term used by retail stores to describe a process by which a customer is able to reserve a specific piece of merchandise by paying for a small percentage of it up front. The customer is not able to take possession of the merchandise until it is completely paid for.
[edit] Gesturing dibs
Dibs can also be a gestured motion if both parties visiblely can see the dib be performed or gestured towards. (i.e. putting your credit card down to pay for something)
[edit] Dibbing
Dibbing is the form of calling dibs on the "prize" or "target" but getting someone else to choose what is to be dibbed by the caller of the dibbing. For example, Jane calls dibs on paying for a meal but Mike has to make the choice as to where to go for said meal.
[edit] Dibbing a term
Dibs may be called on a phrase or any usage of a common word in a different manner than normal. If someone who didn't coin the term calls dibs on its' special usage then a double, triple, ... dibbing will ensue. But if the person who actually did coin the term calls dibs then he/she is automatically given its' rights. However, if one chooses to give away the rights to another, he or she cannot repeal it in any way. The person to whom the rights are given maintains the rights until he or she gives them away.
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kolanuraven
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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YOU forgot one ol' boy, you're slipping, being the resident expert and all!!
This one YOU know WELL....."dip shite" minus the "e" on the end
And NO I typed dip and I meant dip.
So sorry that us here in the lowly SOUTH do NOT meet your high expectations with our local language vernacular usage...but you've been disappointed before and lived, one more won't kill ya!
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Jinglebob
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Soapweed
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| kolanuraven wrote: |
YOU forgot one ol' boy, you're slipping, being the resident expert and all!!
This one YOU know WELL....."dip shite" minus the "e" on the end
And NO I typed dip and I meant dip.
So sorry that us here in the lowly SOUTH do NOT meet your high expectations with our local language vernacular usage...but you've been disappointed before and lived, one more won't kill ya! |
Just be glad you have mud to have dips in anyway. Around here, when we do have any dips in our mud we call 'em ruts. All we have at the moment is dust. 
Shucks, I was just trying to help you out. Didn't mean for you to go and get all mad at me.
I feel about as perplexed as the old cowboy who showed up at a branding on a Monday morning packing a black eye. His buddies asked him what had caused that. He answered that he'd been a good guy the day before and had gone to church. He was in the back row. When the preacher had the congregation stand up to sing a song, he noticed that the lady in front of him had her dress stuck in the crack of her butt. The cowboy thought he'd help her out, so he reached ahead and pulled out the dress. The lady turned around and gave him a dirty look. He thought maybe she wanted the dress there, so he reached up and put it back. That time she whomped him, which resulted in his black eye. He was just trying to be helpful, as was I.
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to do a good deed.
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Red Robin
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Frankk
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| How did those cutting bulls work out? I don't think I saw a picture of them this time.
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