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The Two Cow Explanation
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Posted on 02/20/2003 4:29:57 PM PST by T Minus Four

"The Two-Cow Explanation."

A Hindu: You have two cows. You worship them.

A Christian: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A Socialist: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

A Republican: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?

A Democrat: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for your success and vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. They then use the tax money to buy a cow and give it to your neighbor.

You feel righteous.

A Communist: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

A Fascist: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground to start a campaign of sabotage.

A Capitalist: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

A Bureaucrat: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.

American Foreign Policy: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

An American corporation: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A French corporation: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A Japanese corporation: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.

A German corporation: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

An Italian corporation: You have two cows but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A Russian corporation: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you only have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A Mexican corporation: You think you have two cows, but you don't know what a cow looks like. You take a nap.

A Swiss corporation: You have 5,000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge others for storing them.

A Brazilian corporation: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1,000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

The Taliban and Osama bin Laden: You have two cows. You turn them loose in the Afghan "countryside" and they both die. You blame the godless American infidels.

Saddam Hussein: You had two cows once, but they're gone. They're not in the presidential palace. Documents on them are also missing. Those United Nations inspectors are the real problem.


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OK, how about some suggestions to modify the Republican explanation. Here's one-

A Republican: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You hire him to milk your cows, creating a job and strengthening the economy.

The German and French Corporations should be fun to modify too.

1 posted on 02/20/2003 4:29:57 PM PST by T Minus Four
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A FRENCHMAN: You had two cows, but the wolves ate them. You surrender to the wolves.
2 posted on 02/20/2003 4:33:32 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (The Guns of Brixton)
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To: chookter
A frenchman: You have two cows and make stinky cheese from the milk. Americans boycott it.
3 posted on 02/20/2003 4:35:34 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
The Salvador Dali Surrealism Policy: You have two giraffes. The government requires that they be given harmonica lessons.
4 posted on 02/20/2003 4:40:17 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Meddle not in the affairs of dragons. For you are crunchy and good with ketchup.)
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To: T Minus Four
hehe...

humor bump.
5 posted on 02/20/2003 4:46:28 PM PST by LtLFtP
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To: T Minus Four
i got one.

A cuban corporation: You have two cows. You attempt to teach them to row.
6 posted on 02/20/2003 4:49:25 PM PST by LtLFtP
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To: T Minus Four
TURKS: You intially promise to take care of a good friend's cows, but you renege when it's obvious your friend is in need of the milk, and you think you can strongarm him into paying whatever you ask for caring for them. Your friend kills the cows and instead gives new ones to your neighbors, the Kurds.
7 posted on 02/20/2003 4:49:58 PM PST by 4mer Liberal
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To: T Minus Four
PETA: You have two miserable, exploited cows, so you pretend they are happy by putting words in their mouths.
8 posted on 02/20/2003 4:50:35 PM PST by dpwiener
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PETA: You have 2 cows. You are a dirty, dirty hippie. You build them a home made solely from tofu and empty ben and jerry's ice cream tubs. You stink. You release them into the wild where the promptly die. You go live in a tree. You die as well. You blame corporations. God Bless Natural selection.
9 posted on 02/20/2003 4:58:53 PM PST by LtLFtP
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To: T Minus Four
This one's not quite right:

A Communist: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

It should be:

A Communist: You have two cows. The government seizes both, sells the milk abroad and uses the foreign currency to buy heavy machinery. You are sent to a labor camp as a class enemy because only a kulak would have two cows in the first place.

There, that's more like it.

10 posted on 02/20/2003 5:00:23 PM PST by Argus
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To: Argus
LOL!
11 posted on 02/20/2003 5:25:02 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
A Frenchman: You have two cows so you never bathe again.
12 posted on 02/20/2003 5:27:38 PM PST by pke
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To: Argus
A Communist: You have two cows. The government seizes both, sells the milk abroad and uses the foreign currency to buy heavy machinery. You are sent to a labor camp as a class enemy because only a kulak would have two cows in the first place.

Indeed!!

ROTFLMAO!

13 posted on 02/20/2003 5:28:54 PM PST by DrNo
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To: Argus
A Republican: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You hire your neighbor (a Democrat) to milk your cows. After a few years your neighbor quits, hires a lawyer and sues claiming to have Carpal Tunnel wrists. NLRB puts you out of business. You sell your farm for a Mega-Mall and retire.

14 posted on 02/20/2003 5:31:07 PM PST by Jambe
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To: T Minus Four
Democrat voter - Perpetually haves a cow
15 posted on 02/20/2003 5:34:01 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: JackelopeBreeder
Don't forget the melted clocks...
16 posted on 02/20/2003 5:35:35 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: T Minus Four
A LUNIX Lunatic: You have two cows. You plug up their teats and force them to give milk through their mouths, because Microsoft does it the other way.
17 posted on 02/20/2003 5:40:34 PM PST by Duke Nukum
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To: Jambe
But before you do, you sell one cow to buy a freezer and a Weber grill :-)


18 posted on 02/20/2003 5:40:46 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Cuba: The government assigns two cows to you for care. When you return the next day to milk them you discover they swam to Miami!
19 posted on 02/20/2003 5:42:21 PM PST by Jambe
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To: Duke Nukum
at Cow.com: You have thousands of cows who produce no milk, but get rich at the I.P.O.
20 posted on 02/20/2003 6:44:38 PM PST by ffusco (Omnis Gallia delenda est!)
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