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The World Is Too Weird
Ever heard of "fainting goats"?
I'd never heard of them before this morning, when I read a comment that the media was acting like fainting goats over Obama's "bitter" comment. It was such an odd phrase that I had to look it up.
When startled, these small goats basically faint and fall down. The thing that kills me is this line from the wikipedia article:
For some reason that thought makes me sad.
I'd never heard of them before this morning, when I read a comment that the media was acting like fainting goats over Obama's "bitter" comment. It was such an odd phrase that I had to look it up.
When startled, these small goats basically faint and fall down. The thing that kills me is this line from the wikipedia article:
In the past they were used for protecting livestock such as sheep by involuntarily "sacrificing themselves" to predators, allowing the sheep to escape.
For some reason that thought makes me sad.