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In a recent thread-- Kieva posted.. doesn't speak for this board.
What a great reminder! of course he is right, X doesn't speak for this board, and neither does Kieva, or me or any one else!
this board is pure anarchy! by convention, we have sort of stuck to the original premise, that is, to use this board as forum for discussing language and words.. but hey i know board that started out in the 80's (back before there was a WWW!) as a fun silly place for cow jokes.. and evolved over time to a mad cow information clearing house.. the focus changed!
I am so glad you are back here posting Kieva. and i hope others return.. and keep this board filled with lots of interesting words.. and let the board speak for itself!
is there a word for that? is this board governed by anarchy? --it would seem not.. there is no government, not much structure or order (since we have established the basis is an off the shelf bulliten board software.. with very few modifications) and yet, there is something here that keep us, even as we drift into food, or science, or sports, focused on the interesting words these subjects have bequethed our language.
i think sometimes it can be boring to discuss words in the abstract.. the best thread for me, have been the ones that explored the world of word used in a specific realm.
Certain sports has provided a number of idioms- as has food.. and local names for geological features, or even street names.. and sheep...What is our fascination with sheep? its not just CK, it's Faldage and Dr bill and well, even i like the critters... (she said sheepishly!)and now we are discussing them as food, whiskers, and clothing..
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>is there a word for that?
I think that I suggested once that we are governed by the "dialectics of the board".
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[white]our fascination with sheep[/white]
I can't speak for anyone else, but *my fascination for sheep has largely been tarred upon me with Dr. Bill's brush.
Note I said largely. I once had a subscription to sheep! magazine.
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I think that I suggested once that we are governed by the "dialectics of the board".Did you - didn't see that. I thought of "dialectic immaterialism". A bit like the description of Billy Connolly as "Scot of the anarchic" 
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...What is our fascination with sheep?
Who's this "we", white man?
Sheep are the basis of New Zealand's economy and have, over the years, provided us with the economic progress that we have made, such as it is. Hard not to keep at least one eye on them, since we live, as has been said "off the sheep's back". Fascination is coming on a bit strong, I'd say. Healthy respect for (en masse), certainly!
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coming on a bit strong...Besides, the sheep are liars!
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Insisted the Welshman, defensively.
Well, hell, he should know, shouldn't he?
Anyhoo, Zild has sheep for profit. Wales has sheep for fun and profit ...
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CK-- i have thought of having a cute little lambakin, all soft and fluffy, on hand, to manage my lawn.. it was an idealized dream -- till you told the story of your brutish, beer guzzling, lazy lout of lamb (or was it a wether?)
well in any case.. my dreams shattered as IFOMCRIL,* reading your sheepish exploits!
Now, i'll pull on a warm wool sweater, and remember, ewes not fat, ewes fluffy..
I Fell Off My Chair, Rolling In Laughter!
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Besides, the sheep are liars! Maybe, mav, but those sheep sure look nervous to me ... 
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i have thought of having a cute little lambakin, all soft and fluffy, on hand, to manage my lawn.Helen, the twubble with cutesy widdle wambies is that they grow up into bloody great big sheep. With minds (if you can call them that, and I don't) of their own. Especially if they are on their own. I know sheep don't look very big in pictures, but you just try picking a fly-blown pregnant ewe up to put it on a ATV trailer or try dragging one out of a shearing shed pen onto the board to give it a No. 2 all over ... no fun at all after the first couple in either case. You therefore do have to consider the management issues arising from having one on your back lawn!
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If you really want a beastling to take care of your mowing you shoud try a goat Helen. One of those miniature thingies that don't grow more'n a foot high. They are apparently quite docile and love to chomp on overgrown grass. The only thing you might have to worry about is that old "what goes in must come out" scenario. Personally, I'd stick to an electric mower. Oh, and um, what is it about sheep and Welshmen??? I've never heard anything. 
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I have visions of several kids tethered in the back yard. Make it hard for them to play tag, and I don't think C hildP rotectiveS ervices would let you get away with it for long  .
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Oh, and um, what is it about sheep and Welshmen??? I've never heard anything.It's just an old yarn, m'dear - the sheep learnt their lies from the Kiwis! and if you were a sheep, wouldn't *you look scared when you saw a lawyer advancing on you, waving a writ of Habeaas Corpus?
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that old "what goes in must come out" scenario [...] stick to an electric mower.Yeah - that describes it pretty well!
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...what is it about sheep and Welshmen???
Yes, i am wondering too.. i've always heard that scotland was were the women were strong, the men good looking and the sheep all terrified..
i thought welsh men just mined coal and sang in harmony..not that there is any thing wrong with that!
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Helen, according to folksinger U. Utah Phillip, you are talking about The Great State of Utah, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous. re which (with apologies for an unfortunate term necessary for the rhyme): Brigham Young never was neuter,
Reluctant, a fraud or a fruiter.
Where ten thousand virgins
Succumbed to his urgin's
We now have The Great State of Utah."[giving new meaning to the phrase "the father of his country"] [the last point making this post word-related ]
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