Opinion Forum

Cows and Such

April 22nd, 2009

Like everyone else, I get lots of unsolicited rants in my e-mail inbox. Once in a while, there’s a pretty good joke among them. Here’s one of them—and remember, I didn’t write it!

Think about this:

1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments

COWS:

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION:

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it any more.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS:

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments on display in a courthouse is this—you cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: 10 Commandments, cows
Categories: Humor | Comments (7) | Home

7 Responses to “Cows and Such”

doris | April 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm

Thanks, Tom. Good ones, we need a little levity in our stressful lives.

The Phantom | April 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm

One day two cows were chatting over the fence between their two fields.

The first cow said, “I’m telling you, this mad cow disease is getting pretty scary! I’ve heard it’s spreading so fast that it’s already on Farmer Johnson’s land just down the road.”

The second cow replied, “So what? It doesn’t affect us chickens.”

doris | April 23rd, 2009 at 8:09 am

I know, I am blonde, but I don’t get it? Are they already mad? Sad,I know.

rob | April 23rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Very good ones indeed …

Tom | April 23rd, 2009 at 3:54 pm

I had to think about it a bit…. The second cow is already mad from the disease, so she thinks she’s a chicken?

Some comedian said—Jerry Seinfeld, I think—that any joke with the word “chicken” in it is automatically funny. Now I’m not so sure! I hope this guy has a day job!