In today’s comics feed, this 5/24 One Big Happy strip:
(#1)
It’s especially charming that Ruthie first thinks of tipping the cow in dollars, then adjusts her scheme to something a cow might actually appreciate (there is such a thing as cattle kibble, by the way).
From my 7/3/17 posting “Getting the comic”, about this Daniel Beyer cartoon:
(#2)
which turns on an ambiguity in the verb tip: (a) ‘give (someone) a sum of money as a way of rewarding them for their services’ vs. (b) ‘overbalance or cause to overbalance so as to fall or turn over’ (with special reference to overbalancing cows so as to make them fall over, as a puerile American prank); the posting has additional reference to tip (c) ‘provide a small but useful piece of practical advice (to someone)’.
Ruthie in #1 is presumably familiar with the practice of tipping servers in restaurants, but not with the prank of tipping cows in meadows.
June 18, 2020 at 8:42 pm |
Based on my investigations on the web, I’ve decided that cattle kibble does not actually exist. I found only 3 relevant hits in the 4 pages of Google results for “cattle kibble”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cattle+kibble%22
Your posting is currently the #2 hit. (It also accounts for half the results in Google Images, but I don’t see the cartoon with Ruthie, although it’s the only result for Bing.com image search. The other half are The Hunt Magazine, mentioning cattle and kibble consecutively.)
Inexplicably, there’s a match on the word “kibble” in a seller’s description of a drawing of horse (not a cow) with a feedbag:
https://www.2019moviehottoys.org/horse/horse-landseer.html
which repackages this listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362607988036
(Horse kibble gets hits about a simulation game, where they should eat grass or hay, because kibble is too expensive.
And there’s also an interesting article on surplus horse meat, WW I & II, tin can shortages, and the early kibble industry:
https://nycdoggies.com/dog-food-the-story-of-kibble/
It’s a bit cynical, but mostly well-written.)
Finally, there’s one UK dog rescue story, written as if in the dog’s voice (in the 1st grrr-son?), where “cattle kibble” presumably means beef kibble, flavored with or based on beef:
http://www.caessr.org.uk/community/letters.html?view=letters&month=03&year=2014
Numerous instances of …”cattle. Kibble”… (Kibble as a proper name, or as feed for farm dogs, in the next sentence or phrase), and about 90% junk results (mostly word-salad in search engine optimization results that redirect to unrelated or scam sites and phone-book scrapings). When I do the search in an incognito window, there are only 16 of the results (and bing.com has even fewer), but still nothing relevant.
June 20, 2020 at 11:29 pm |
And “cattle kibbles” gets 2 hits for one article in scare quotes:
https://lifelinesblog.com/2016/09/23/reducing-gas-emissionsfrom-cows/
and
https://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2016/09/22/reducing-gas-emissions-from-cows
(I empathize with you when you mention that you’re so far behind. We have the internet at our fingertips, and yet it’s such a slog trying to weed out the irrelevancies, while repeatedly going back to add just one more idea that seems important…)