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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
Do you know the difference between a Bohemian and a
Czech? I had it explained to me recently. I was curious
anyway, because my brother-in-law, whose last name is Vrana,
is Czech but calls himself a Bohemian. I called another guy a
Bohemian and he said, "No, I'm a Czech." That's when
a local Sabrasula set me straight. "I'm Bohemian,"
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
We tested our bulls on the fifth of January.
Inventoried three fertile low birthweight sires to put on the
heifers the same day. Three days later, one ox headed south
over three fences onto our neighbor on a sightseeing trip. In
the same sequence, one of his pasture mates was disqualified
because of his weight and weakness of his hind legs, leaving
us short two bulls. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
As the only local cow vet, Steve had calved a lot
of heifers
And as such was most reluctant to keep score
‘Cause no matter how he tried and tried, he couldn’t save
them all
So on the side he opened up a taxidermy store. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
The Paiute Indians had a lot of great ideas that we
should have adopted into our culture, especially when it came
to medical care. Should three or more Paiute patients die of
unexplained causes while under the care of a tribal medicine
man, the punishment was that the medicine man must forfeit his
life. A common method of punishment was to tie up the quack
doc in the bottom of a canyon and launch boulders at him from
above. I think if we adopted this code today, the care we
receive from the medical profession would improve drastically. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
In June 2000, Jason Brooks, a junior at Angelo State
University, went to work for me as a summer intern. The first
day on the job, we had a daylong tour on brush sculpting. As
we drove to the first stop near Tennyson, I was briefing him
on the various research and Extension efforts that I rode herd
over. The common denominator was quail. Jason looked at me and
asked a bit incredulously, "why quail?" |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
I don’t know which is worse, a virus on my computer
or a virus in my chest. I have been fighting both all week. I
thought I had the computer virus licked, but I am having
computer problems that I can’t explain, so I have to blame
them on something other than my stupidity. |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
Tumbleweed…Well, now, everybody in West Texas knows what one
is, but I had to research more than one dictionary to find a
definition. And then, to my surprise, I couldn’t find a
description that gave justice to those round, prickly, dry
weeds that are common to the western prairies. Nor did I find
a mention of how large they could get, a point that is
important to my story. |
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