Posted on 04/02/2019 7:00:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Milo of Croton...Also famous for eating LOTS!
He did his time as a Grunt using a club!
There is a saying that goes back to Milo of Croton: lift a calf everyday and when you grow up, you can lift a cow. The story goes that Milo, a famous wrestler in ancient Greece, gained his immense strength by lifting a newborn calf one day when he was a boy, and then lifting it every day as it grew. In a few years, he was able to lift the grown cow. The calf grew into a cow at about the rate that Milo grew into a man.
Maybe the people that had the cows die on their ship give them a burial at sea.
We have the same problem with people in Florida when they try to escape Cuba. They sometimes wash up. Or parts of them anyway.
Could have been a stampede.
rwood
Oh yes, sharks certainly ARE carrion eaters.
They have found all sorts of weird things in shark stomachs of many species, including inanimate objects and terrestrial animals which had been cast overboard. A dead whale is a shark magnet.
You can see some crazy stuff floating in the ocean. I was in the Navy and one time a lookout reported a tree off the starboard bow. And it was a tree. An entire living tree with green leaves and everything still on it. A big tree. It must have slid off into the ocean I guess, who knows?
Sounds like Milo was strong as a bull...
Salted beef!!
Also claimed to be the origin of orange marmalade.
The legend
In the mid 18th century a Spanish ship carrying Seville oranges was damaged by storm. The ship sought refuge in the harbour of Dundee in Scotland where the load deemed unfit for sale were sold to a local merchant called James Keiller. James’ mother turned the bitter orange fruit into jam and so created the iconic James Keiller Dundee Marmalade. It wasn’t a coincidence that James mother made marmalade, in the 1760s her son ran a confectionery shop producing jams in Seagate, Dundee. In 1797 he founded the world’s first marmalade factory producing the first commercial brand of marmalade. In 1828, the company became James Keiller and Son, when his son joined the business. Today you can see stone James Keiller and Son marmalade jars pop up at every carboot sale and antiques market. But the marmalade is still in production, only now in glass jars that off the beautiful radiant orange colour that is so typical of marmalade.
I was going to post “The article should have been about those guys throwing the cows overboard.”
Wouldn’t they just keep a float?
Dairy cows? Ice cream at such a waste.
Angus? The loss of many uncooked stakes.
and come to all the wrong conclusions.
A gov funded study of global warming no doubt?
I was frankly expecting posts along this line:
a shark magnet???
I believe I’m safe here in DuPage County?
But coastal Florida!!
Low lands no cliffs and lots of cows!!!!
However, they will swallow automobile license plates.
Regards,
Cow latitudes
Are you suggesting, there was some cowlousion involved?
Ruskies?
I do hope you can back it up!
The article I read stated they wouldn’t go after something that had been dead too long but the article looked like some kind of green propaganda.
The author also said sharks don’t go after people.
Reminded me of the government officials who swear there are no mountain lions nearby and people have nothing to fear from them.
If they’ll even eat licence plates they’ll eat anything.
Looks like they came from the land down udder. /jk
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