BS: Sheep pattern

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 05:24 PM

Anytime, Liz.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 03:57 PM

"In January, it's a bloody silly rumour... unless you're in Oz or New Zealand, which have both summer and sheep."

But we also have lots of skips.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM

>>Saw two men sheep sharing yesterday <<

Was that in Gainsborough GeorgianSilver :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Mo the caller
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 02:46 PM

dont open Rapaire's link if you're on dial-up. I'd finished reading the thread before it came uo, and I'm on broadband.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:30 AM

In January, it's a bloody silly rumour... unless you're in Oz or New Zealand, which have both summer and sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: skipy
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:27 AM

There is rumour that I would be out there looking for topless female sunbathers, but, that would only be rumour.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: skipy
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:11 AM

Skips!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:09 AM

Skipy, what were you looking for from the glider?

Googl is offering us a breed of hard working, easy care sheep. To think of all that money I wasted on floweres and chocolates...

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:59 AM

Oh Kendall... ewe threw one away you know...

Shall I join you in the cellar?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:22 AM

When it comes to puns, you can't bleat sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:10 AM

Liz, it depends on the type of brand. The method we use to see which ewes have been covered by which ram wears off, after it's been worn on, so to speak.

Strictly speaking, that's not a brand. A brand is a semi-permanent mark whereas the colour is removeable. It's a bag of dye the ram wears strapped to his chest/stomach so that it rubs on the ewe when he tups her. The dye used to be sold by travelling salesmen who went from farm to farm, making and selling the dyes. After a while, they became permeated with the dye - hence the 'Reddle' or 'Raddle' man of old. Thomas Hardy featured a reddleman in 'The Return of the Native'.

The colour will show up on the ewe's rear and the shepherd will know that she's likely in lamb. Any unmarked ewes will definately not be in lamb and he can separate them or present another ram to them.

Branding an animal is a mark of ownership, but if you want to sell the skin of that animal, it needs to be unmarked. Certainly my great great grandfather's sheep were marked in the ear (photographic evidence circa 1895-6. Photo is of great grandfather aged ll, b1885, tending sheep), all of the animals have an unmarked fleece.

They are in no recognisable pattern other than 'randomly pointing mostly one way'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 08:54 AM

To paraphrase Walt Kelly's immortal Pogo:

"Do you herd sheep?" me father said.
Me gramma lept in fright;
""Your father's wrong, gramma said,
"Have you heard sheep is right!"

I really dug the privy hole time machine link; there are ancient treasures still to be recovered on this earth if we know where to look.

Sheerily,
Sharley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 04:45 AM

Saw two men sheep sharing yesterday

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 01:11 AM

Ebbie, it usually means they've been drenched or (if they're ewes) they've been spudded.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:49 PM

I've seen a lot of sheep in auction barns. They all seem to have a prominent splotch or spatter or swath of (s)paint.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rowan
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 07:47 PM

Crikey, Rapaire, that puts the Time Team's theme to shame.

Liz, it depends on the type of brand. The method we use to see which ewes have been covered by which ram wears off, after it's been worn on, so to speak. Are you saying that partners don't fleece you?

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 04:03 AM

If you brand a sheep, you're lowering the price of its fleece. Most partners prefer a simple ring or a pretty necklace of leather and silver.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 03:37 AM

Strewth, that must qualify for some award for the most excessive use of shockwave in a web intro, ever. and there's not even a built site for it to seque into!
Some people have far too much time on their hands.
Now, pass me another freshly-buttered Merino...

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:49 PM

Gawd, Rapaire - that woke me up!

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 06:53 PM

Could be worse...

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 05:57 PM

Nah, Skipy doesn't have an obsession with sheep. He has an obsession with skips. What he has with sheep is a fixation.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 05:20 PM

Hey Skipper,

I think you have an obsession with sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Louie Roy
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 03:46 PM

That's why the Ram went over the cliff it didn't see the EWE Turn

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:06 PM

dumpster diving

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: skipy
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:51 PM

Hi, SRS, the same way, it's to do with my obsession with skips (dumpsters)
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:27 PM

Now we're getting lambasted with tall stories? Baa!

(Sorry, Skipy. Do you pronounce it the same way, or is it a long i?)

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: jeffp
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:04 PM

That reminds me about the woman in rural Texas who was dyeing some cloth when a young sheep hopped into the vat of dye. It hopped out a moment later a lovely shade of blue. A passing city fellow stopped and offered her a large sum of money for the blue lamb. She caught on quickly and started popping sheep into the vat and selling them to city folks. And friends, now that woman is the biggest lamb dyer in Texas.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:50 PM

Well, that's what the instructions say. We can brand sheep anywhere.

Most folks around here just spray-paint 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:36 PM

Branding sheep? Ear tags is what most people use, and before that it was ear notching. Freeze branding would work on dark-fleeced sheep, with the wool on the brand growing through white. You wouldn't be able to make out much of a pattern, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:33 PM

(funny shaped vegetables are porn to 'some' people..) ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:25 PM

We have a registered brand for our Library here (MPL connected, with a rocker). We can brand horses and cattle on the left hip, sheep anywhere. I wanna know, and so do other inquiring minds, exactly HOW you brand a sheep so that the brand would show.

(Oh yeah. Staff are branded on the left hip and right shoulder, with a jingle-bob ear cut, but only after they complete their 180-day probationary period.)

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:08 PM

But Peace, that picture is really naked people, not sheep. That's not real porn. It'd only be porn if it was real sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:47 AM

Please, post no pictures. It is porn to some people.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: skipy
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM

SRS please note, I am Skipy   not   Skippy.
Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bernard
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:43 AM

And I bet they 'fleece' you for using it!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:37 AM

Driving through Wales one can't help but notice the single, solitary, sad looking sheep on the outskirts of each town/village, tied to the town or village signpost. Someone suggested to me it might be the local Leisure Centre.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:35 AM

Pity the poor sods in the nettle patch!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:27 AM

or "Did somebody fart"

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:26 AM

What I wanna know about that picture Bill posted a link to is where'd they find so many people with no tan lines?

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:23 AM

That one guy lifting his head should have a balloon caption that says, "God! What a bunch of assholes!"

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:19 AM

Answer

Becuase the sheep push back harder

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:19 AM

You should be baaaanned for starting a thread like this. Posters will probably flock to it and compound your wooly thinking.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:18 AM

wether or not ewe run out of sheep puns; I'm sure someone will ram them down our throats

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:17 AM

I agree about large groups of sheep , sometimes they can fool you.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:15 AM

SRS - where Skipy is concerned, running out of sheep can only be a good thing........................for the sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:15 AM

Are we allowed to put sheep jokes on here, like

Why do shepherds prefer to have sex with a sheep on the edge of a cliff?

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:08 AM

But if you look down at a field of sheep from a Blackhawk helicopter flying at extremely low altitude, they generally form something resembling utter chaos.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: jeffp
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:00 AM

Shear madness, I tell you.

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:59 AM

Skippy is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Don't ewe feel sheepish for starting this thread? Perhaps you should concede an ill-conceived thread and fold.

I've run out of sheep puns. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Sheep pattern
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:47 AM

Only if they are in a field with a stone circle through it or a ley line in it. Maybe they are signalling to UFOs.