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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Beast of Burden
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 13:37:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 13:37:03 1985
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> Paul Dubois, talking about the differences between horsies and cows:
> > 
> > One gets an udder, the other doesn't.  One gets a single hoof, the
> > other, split.  One gets horns, the other, not.  One becomes a ruminant,
> > the other, not.  But the brain, the most complex structure of all,
> > develops (independently in two lines) so remarkably similarly.

> [Jeff Sonntag]
>     Horses don't have udders?  You should get away from your terminal
> more often, Paul.  Get out and see some real animals.  And just in case
> you're wondering why you never see udders in the westerns, it's because
> they're pretty small (compared to a cow's) unless they've given birth
> fairly recently, in which case they are unlikely to be starring in
> cowboy movies.

Hair-splitting.  Would you call horse mammary glands "udders"
normally?  I wouldn't.  Maybe you would, but you say "And just in
case you're wondering why you never see udders in the westerns, it's
because they're pretty small (compared to a cow's)..."
                          but ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  was exactly the point...
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