Culchurally Speekn

[Rusty]

The Monkey Business thread is getting too long, so I thought I'd start a new one by asking you the following Uncle Bill:

If you do a lot of yakking, and add a bunch of bull, is it true that you end up with zomo any way you slice it ( obligatory knife reference )? And how does one slice zomo anyway? Maybe Yangdu can swap recipes.

PS - if you still haven't decided to take that time off, remember that I can keep up this kind of "pun"ishness indefinitely.

As you might have guessed, it's been a long day and my mind never came back from being out to lunch.

Edit note: have realized that my use of poor English in the subject line was inappropriate in a forum where several participants have English as a second or third language. Where that's the case, I'm envious you speak any English at all. The usage of poor English was meant to poke fun at myself and those ancestors of mine that weren't able to cover up the family skeletons deep enough.

Where I grew up in California's Central Valley, you never told an ethnic joke over the phone - everyone had party lines. You instead jumped in the car to see how many times you could tell it as a polish, greek, italian, portuguese, mexican, irish, etc joke before they saw you coming and told it to you as a hungarian ( one of my ethnicities ) joke.

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[Bill Martino]

Another post that made me laugh, Rusty. You have a great sense of humor. I remember the way you and Cobalt used to go at it. I miss him and will be very happy when he gets back from wherever it is he went.

Uncle Bill

 

[Rusty]

For those who don't know ( and I didn't til I played on the net yesterday ), the yak and the cow can be crossbred - producing a zomo - that can apparently live in mountains at heights inbetween yaks and cattle.

Since in this forum we are very familiar with the jackass, ( equine and other kinds ), I thought some might be interested to learn there is a bovine equivalent in the zomo. Either way, the end product still smells pretty much the same, I ass u me.

 

[Bill Martino]

Neighbor, you are something else. Are you taking your medication.

The yaks have a disposition that much resembles a mule. I have never been acquainted with a zomo but I am very curious which philosophy of life they inherit -- yak or cow.

Uncle Bill

 

[gtkguy]

You're right on the money, Rusty, Re: Yaks and Zomo (also written as Dzomo or Dzo). As far as looks (and smell!) goes, they're hard to tell apart by a casual observer. As far as temperament goes, zomos are more on the docile side - easier to control - as compared to the more temperamental yaks. That's why they're preferred as pack animals in many parts of the Himalayas.

BTW, yak/zomo meat, milk and milk products are really pungent. Definitely an acquired taste!

- Sonam

 

[Rusty]

As I have often told my brother from another mother, John ( who is prot. or northern Irish ), I used to drive by the local corrals and see this white mule, but about every third time there was just something odd I couldn't quite put my finger on. Something to do with the ears. Then one day I drove by to see TWO white mules, distinguishable only by slight differences in the ears, in that stall. The first thought after "So that's why!" to come to mind was "I wonder which one of that matched set of white jackasses is John and which is me?" And when I told that story once, a black friend laughed loud enough I couldn't resist telling him "Don't forget (while you're laughing) that there's a couple of black jackasses over at the corrals too!"

 

[Bill Martino]

Rusty, that's the second time you made me laugh.

Sonam, when I lived in Nepal I used yak cheese as a parmesan substitute -- as you said, the yak products are very pungent.

Uncle bill

 

[Yvsa]

:
I guess culchurly speekin then,that it would be much the same if you were
"Hungry enough to eat the North end of a South Skunk" .. Or... "Hungry enough to eat the North end of a South bound Zomo." ???

Hmmmm. Substitute for Parmesan cheese? I could do well on that then. Anybody here like Limburger as well as Real Blue cheese besides me??

We were at a Native American Church meeting not long ago. Our first and probably the last for me anyway. Those people are much too much like organized religion for my traditional tastes,if you get my drift. Anyway the next day after the "breakfast" in the Tipi when the main breakfast and meal was served,there was some boiled Kidney....( Barbs dad was full blood Polish.) ( If we'd a had kids we would have to have named them Runnin ,well you probably know what I mean

)... among many other more ethnic foods. The kidney was still in the broth and more like a straight kidney soup. Barb knew what it was because it was pretty much a staple dish in thier home when she was growing up. I had eaten boiled kidney when I was a kid,but never like this. It was quite good.

One of our traditional foods is "Fry Bread" I would guess it was decsended
from the other types of traditional breads we ate made from cornmeal and/or potatoes,squash.

There is an interesting bit of trivia on the www about the native foods of the Americas. I think it was something like 86 food that originated in North and South America. There was at least one village Tuzoozigoot (sp) in Arizona that had a more varied diet than the Europeans of the same time frame.

Rusty I found that very interesting and I am really glad you explained it in another post. I was just gonna chalk it up to your medications.

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.


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[Rusty]

I saw a birthday card once that said on the cover:

"Remember when we were young and used to think about experimenting with drugs?"

Then you opened it up, and inside was:

"Now we have to take them!"

 

[Bill Martino]

Rusty, you are shooting 100%. I laughed again.

Uncle Bill