Agnes by Tony Cochran for October 27, 2010

Logical .

she’s got a point

Thought it was pretty obvious Trout.

Hey Trout, aren’t you kinda young to be drinking coffee?

I’ll take an irregular cow any day.

Just don’t stand behind an irregular cow. ‘specially if it’s gonna sneeze.

I always thought “Frantoolio” was a boy’s name…

Whatever cows abducted little Frantoolio in the 8th Century, they weren’t Herefords. The breed wasn’t recognized until about the 1600’s.

Whatever cows WERE in Herefordshire at the time, however, would have had ample reason for anti-social activity. Their placid lives were no doubt disrupted by the Battle of Hereford in 760 AD, a major conflict between the Celtic Welsh and the Anglo-Saxons from the East. The Welsh (under either King Now I Hen (Hen the Old) of Brycheiniog or King Eliseg of Powys; the record is unclear) defeated the army of Mercia (under King Æthelbald), but at present Hereford lies on the English side of the Welsh border.

(By the way - if you happen to find a coconut in Mercia, it was probably dropped there by a migrating swallow.)

I think Trout’s concern is neither hereford or thereford.

fritzoid, according to footnotes, it was either King Arglebargle IV or somebody else.

There’s one watching you now … moo!