TheBanyanTree: You can't bury a cow here

[Sally Larwood]

No one hurt?

Sal 

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On 07/09/2012, at 7:17, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:

> We went to a rodeo last Sunday in the little down just down the road from the place we were camping. Great fun and I'll be putting up pictures on my blog soon, but we also came away with a new family saying:
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> "Put on your big girl pants and ride."
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> It was advice given to the rodeo queen and her court (all 6th and 7th graders) by their mentor, and they obviously took it to heart because all of them used it in their biographical write-ups.
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> A lot of the riders needed to have a pair of big girl pants.  The score was:
> bareback broncs - 4, riders - 1
> saddle broncs - 6, riders - 1
> bulls - 8, riders -2 (but one of them hopped out of the arena on one leg)
> in steer wrestling, steers 8, wrestlers 2  Some of those steers have been to one too many rodeos:  They knew if they kept running that they were going to get thrown down, so they just slammed on the brakes right outside the chute and the rider and his hazer blew right on by them.
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> It was such a fun rodeo!
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> Theta
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> On 9/5/2012 6:18 PM, Peter Macinnis wrote:
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>> This has become a family saying (we travelled with three cousins): "This is dry country: you could bury three cows here, no worries", or "You couldn't bury a cow here, but you might just be able to dispose of a budgie, if you worked fast..."
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>> Small things amuse small minds: one has to work hard to be amused by the burial of cows.
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