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Sheep found saddled with 41 pounds of wool is shorn for adoring public
The Washington ComPost ^ | April 26, 2022 | Cathy Free

Posted on 04/28/2022 7:12:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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1 posted on 04/28/2022 7:12:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: SJackson

*PING*


2 posted on 04/28/2022 7:12:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s quite a few blankets.
I’m itchy now...


3 posted on 04/28/2022 7:13:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: null and void

Trevor was hoarding!!!


4 posted on 04/28/2022 7:14:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: finnsheep; dixjea; Jamestown1630; Bookwoman; Qiviut; BlissinNC; metmom; Mmogamer; Souled_Out; ...

*Fiber Arts Ping List Cross-Ping*


5 posted on 04/28/2022 7:15:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Somebody pulled the wool over somebodies eyes...


6 posted on 04/28/2022 7:15:46 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Love it! Of course, if he HAD fallen off a cliff, I’ll bet he would have bounced with all that fleece and been barely injured!

Wool-blind...I guess this IS the case of the wool being pulled over the eyes...I never thought about it, but that has to be the origin of the saying!


7 posted on 04/28/2022 7:16:08 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: C210N

You beat me to it! I never thought much about the origin of that common phrase...


8 posted on 04/28/2022 7:16:37 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

rotflmao!


9 posted on 04/28/2022 7:16:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Shrekapo didn’t squirm or scramble to get away, he said.

That's surprising.

And I'm glad they had a blanket handy.

10 posted on 04/28/2022 7:17:19 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

““Sheep get quite docile when they’re being shorn,””

Nowadays you can’t even read a feelgood story without politics being being written into it.


11 posted on 04/28/2022 7:20:55 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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12 posted on 04/28/2022 7:22:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

More here...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/128388439/shrekapo-the-elusive-merino-186kg-lighter-after-being-shorn-for-the-first-time

Modern sheep must be bred for big, fast fleece?

Seems to me lugging that around in the wild would put the poor critters at an evolutionary disadvantage...

Unless a fleece that thick is a sheepy version of Kevlar. The predators just bounce off...?

Come to think of it, Shrekapo did okay for six years, didn’t he...

Handsome animal!

Wonder what’s been done with the wool...


13 posted on 04/28/2022 7:22:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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LOL!

Social Knitworking

14 posted on 04/28/2022 7:25:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

Ah, Shrek was on the lam (ha ha) for six years...


15 posted on 04/28/2022 7:27:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: C210N

What did sheep do before there were humans around to give them haircuts?


16 posted on 04/28/2022 7:28:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (1.96 million plus active users on Truth Social)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I love watching the professional sheep-shearers at the Northeast Agricultural Exposition every fall.

Just don't get how those sheep trade their beautiful sweaters for that chintzy little man-made coat....

17 posted on 04/28/2022 7:29:07 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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18 posted on 04/28/2022 7:29:40 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: EEGator; All

Put me in a yarn shop and I, too, become ‘wool blind,’ LOL!


19 posted on 04/28/2022 7:30:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I love Merino wool sweaters.

L


20 posted on 04/28/2022 7:33:20 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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