Prof. Sam LawlerFor no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
Karl Auerbach@sundogplanets "This project is an udder disaster!"
Ivor Hewitt@sundogplanets obviously the classic... "Consider a spherical cow..."
Fractal Kitty@ivor I came here to say just that
Susan Vanderplas@ivor @sundogplanets a spherical massless frictionless cow!
Arthur van der Harg
P4@ivor @sundogplanets "...radiating milk uniformly in all directions..."
Susanna the Artist đ»@ivor @sundogplanets This was the first one I thought of!
Future Sprog
Amin, minor deity of the legume realmHm, I'm not sure I know any about cows⊠unless "kick the bucket" is a bucket full of milk.
If you don't mind one about goats, my favorite Afghan proverb was "Got no worries? Buy a goat!"
@amin ohhhh I love that Afghan proverb!
Martin Owens 
Heh, if you combine that with the american saying "He's got your goat" (annoying you) it becomes "No one got your goat? Get a goat!" đ
Aknavah Allim@amin @sundogplanets
In Finnish we used to say "A man without a horse is a man without worries"
but now we are definitely far away from any cows, sorry
In Finnish we used to say "A man without a horse is a man without worries"
but now we are definitely far away from any cows, sorry
Leea@immersfer @amin @sundogplanets ...unless you count sayings like "let's go, cows, the barn is on fire", that's usually used as a way to say there's nothing to see here, let's go looking for something else.
@amin @sundogplanets It is not a bucket full of milk. It is the bucket that you stand on when you are going to hang yourself.
Dr. Anna Latour@amin this one made me giggle @sundogplanets
Thomas Lobig@sundogplanets Eine Kuh macht Muh, viele KĂŒhe machen MĂŒhe
(hard to translate German pun, roughly "one cow says moo, many cows create mooch work")
(hard to translate German pun, roughly "one cow says moo, many cows create mooch work")
@sundogplanets one more German one: "Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut" literraly: Doesn't fit on a cow skin, cow skin as in raw material for parchment.
benni@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets another German one: "Die Kuh vom Eis holen." Moving the cow from the ice. the meaning is to solve a difficult but urgent problem.
Florian Schmidt@benni
Another German one (we seem to deal with cows a lot): "Du siehst aus wie / du schaust wie *eine Kuh auf Glatteis"
roughly "You look like a cow on black ice" (stressing the slippyness, not the optics)
@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
Another German one (we seem to deal with cows a lot): "Du siehst aus wie / du schaust wie *eine Kuh auf Glatteis"
roughly "You look like a cow on black ice" (stressing the slippyness, not the optics)
@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
Marc@schmidt_fu @benni @Tom_ofB @sundogplanets I only know "schauen wie eine Kuh, wenn es donnert". ("to gaze like a cow when it thunders") Used when somebody looks completely clueless.
Timjan@benni @Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
Interesting!
There's a Swedish that must have had some related origin: "det Àr ingen ko pÄ isen" = "There's no cow on the ice", as in, there are presently no pressing urgent problems to solve.
Tove Ăhman@benni @Tom_ofB @sundogplanets oooh, totally the counterpart of the Swedish "Det Ă€r ingen ko pĂ„ isen", there is no cow on the ice! Meaning don't panic (yet)!
Marcel Waldvogel@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
Wow, excellent translation! Congrats!
(Until a few seconds ago, I would have considered this utterly untranslateable.)
Remco de KokUdderly untranslateable?
I'll see myself out.
David Zaslavsky@sundogplanets I've always thought "It's a moo point" (from an episode of Friends) deserved to catch on
K4mpfie
Vicomte Folmer af Helvede@K4mpfie @diazona @sundogplanets
Looking through the thread to see if anyone mentioned it, I was expecting to find it!! đ
@folfdk @diazona @sundogplanets Same! If David wouldn't have already posted something certainly would have
Matthew Miller@K4mpfie @diazona @sundogplanets
Definitely a highlight of that entire show.
@mattdm @diazona @sundogplanets Yes! Currently watching for the first time and I have to say after Season 4 it really only seems to get worse
Quincy âTwo German ones:
"Die Kuh vom Eis holen" ("getting the cow off the ice") - resolving a difficult situation
"Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut" (this goes on no cow-skin) - expressing mild outrage
(sorry, no puns involved)
But since you asked for puns:
- Why is it difficult to hit a cow?
- Because it's a mooing target.
(disclaimer: don't hit cows.)
CiarĂĄn Ferrie@quincy @sundogplanets That reminds me of a commentator's description of an English footballer who wasn't having much luck in front of goal: "he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!"
@quincy @sundogplanets The footballer in question did see the funny side of it
https://youtu.be/fiT0SviT0dA?si=KxUxsRripEhvSP7d
https://youtu.be/fiT0SviT0dA?si=KxUxsRripEhvSP7d
Can Heskey Hit A Cow's Arse With A Banjo? | Follow The Football
Phogna Bologna@sundogplanets there's taking the bull by the horns and on the horns of a dilemma, but not cows, exactly
@sundogplanets having grown up in Texas, I'd think I'd have more, but the only others I have are "all hat and no cattle" and "not my barn, not my cattle"
@sundogplanets there's one about "dumb enough to milk a bull"
Deborah Pickett@sundogplanets I remember when there was an escaped cow on the freeway and the traffic reporter advised that everyone should âsteer clearâ.
Ole Wolf@futzle @sundogplanets And everyone who stopped to look was told to moo on.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua"You can't eat a steak and later complain there is no more milk".
In a press release I sold that for "ancient wisdom" but actually I invented it 10 minutes before.
Conny Nasch@GustavinoBevilacqua @sundogplanets however, I have heard that before. It must be a vague memory in your unconscious that surfaced - it happens to me quite a lot.
jonoleth@sundogplanets "Det Àr ingen ko pÄ isen sÄ lÀnge rumpan Àr i land", or "No cow is on the ice so long as their butt is on shore"
Meaning "Don't worry about it" cause the cows aren't going to drown even if the ice breaks
Toke HĂžiland-JĂžrgensen@jonoleth @sundogplanets In Danish we seem to have dropped the last half of that, so we just have "there's no cow on the ice" = "don't worry". I had no idea there was a longer version that actually made sense :D
@toke @sundogplanets "ingen ko pÄ isen" is the normal Swedish saying too, I just enjoy the archaic version more :P
Jonathan Schofield@sundogplanets
paving the cow path
pull the udder one
itâs Friesan in âere
a pat on the back
pasture best
heard it through the bovine
tri ungulate
paving the cow path
pull the udder one
itâs Friesan in âere
a pat on the back
pasture best
heard it through the bovine
tri ungulate
EF@urlyman @sundogplanets il pleut comme vache qui pisse.
Where are cows born in the UK? Uddersfield.
Why can't cows stay still? Because they're always moo-ving.
All the above it true or it could be utter bullocks.
Where are cows born in the UK? Uddersfield.
Why can't cows stay still? Because they're always moo-ving.
All the above it true or it could be utter bullocks.
@EF I am mostly utter bullocks
@urlyman @sundogplanets I herd you.
Elch@sundogplanets Originally French: "You speak French like a cow in Spain"
Klara@sundogplanets Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put.
When the calf has drowned, one fills the well.
I guess this will apply to Kessler syndrome too.
@sundogplanets another dutch one: Er is geen koe zo bont of er zit wel een vlekje aan.
There isn't a cow so piebald or it has a speck.
Meaning: no smoke without fire, there must be some thruth to the rumor.
@Klara in this household we use it to mean ânobody is perfectâ @sundogplanets
@anna @sundogplanets multifunctional proverb đđź