Amos, when I read about the "paper ears" and saw the Great Bill's name in the title of the thread, I naturally assumed that the guy with the ears was...you guessed it....had to be...Spock, of course.

JenEllen, living in the wilds of Kansas, I can certainly relate to the report of the horse-and-buggy accident. Our buggies wear a large day-glo orange triangle on their rear ends, but people driving the back roads near Yoder have been known to assume those were targets, not warning symbols.

Ah, Ellensburg. I miss the Northwest sometimes.

Only 32 cows? My son was woken in the middle of the night recently by a bigger herd than that stampeding through his apartment parking lot. He went out at 3AM to help herd them back into the pasture they'd escaped from

See the "Advice for Midwest Travelers" thread for more flatland strangenesses.

Lin in Kansas