HOld on tight

A claim about rodeo steer riding is that when it was first tried it was a dud. That's right, boring. Most everyone went to look at the champion roosters event rather than sit through the steer riding event. [SOURCE]
That changed, of course, as a change in steers to bulls made history. Brahman bulls showed the way to today's event or gore, stomp, rampage and assuredly kill the "thing" on its back... and raking his balls too.

More bell, less hat. MooPig knows the in and outs of riding a bull. More the bull than the pig that is.

But before we get to bragging, lets do some fact finding.

by Pat Darnell
HOw could Bovine Complacency provide a ride of a lifetime. Yes, if you jump on a beast that has never had much on its back -- besides snarling wolves, lions, tigers and bears -- then your life will flash through your mind, and in a twinkling you will be accelerating through space and time akin to human rapture visions. Yes.

I have sat atop wild, semi-broke horses. And at the time I suspected there is no greater ride for your life than that. So of course there are those whose need for speed and brain rattling prompts them to jump on bulls for their rides. It's always one up showmanship, every where I try to go. Ain't it a bitch?

"It's not a matter of 'If' I get hurt, but 'When' I get hurt," say the semi-cripple ex-bull riders.

MooPig asked some of those present, "Are there any ex-ridden Bulls that are hurting and crippled?"

That question drew a blank. Turn about is still fair play.

Feeling a bit Crimped here, in the Middle!

Report from the Middle, Pat Darnell, BSBA CTU, TUA, MOFO

I really wish the goofy announcers and talkies hosts that crowd the airwaves would remember the breadbasket interior once in a while. I hear all the botched crap from Washington, DC, New York and Hollywood; hey there is botched crap in Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Dallas and Houston. Heck even Miami could use a little crimping.

Okay let’s make corollaries: I truly wish bi-coastal’s could wise up. Is it only me... or Do others ever notice there is “No” declaration of culpability from West Coast and East Coast nudniks who think the only happenings are in the east or west coast? New Yorkers and LA’ers: say to me, with body language and with words: “We are the only happening in the country.”

Second cities are the least appreciated. Why also are they usually never mentioned on quiz shows? For instance: "What is the sister city of Evanston, IL.?" I don't know either, but certainly someone is interested in this knowledge.

Usually quips are like: “Houston is Paris just without all the beautiful buildings,” can’t remember who said it. But true it is. Tulsa is San Francisco, just with more oil wells. Chicago, the Big Onion, is Second City per Belushi days, to the Big Apple. Hey! This makes me hungry: "Say Philly can I get a philly cheese steak over here, walkin'?"

Wicked, eh? Californians should let the elements batter their faces for a whole Chicago winter before attempting to play a role in the rust belt. In this photo of two grumpier-than-grumpier has-beens, who of the two has the better face lift?

I get most tickled when I see LA actors playing in movies set in the Northeast. You know a lot of Northern residents are shy of the sun. They don’t like coming out in the gamma rays. If you look closely when J. Roberts or Bill Hurt walk the streets of New York in a movie, they walk chest up to the Sun. Every northern person knows you don’t walk that way north of the Mason-Dixon Line! Hunch over and shuffle your feet, and do it quickly. What!

What else? Oh yeah, I thought the cultural divide for our great country is traditionally north to south, not east-middle-west. Personally I would like to hear more Jeno-Letterman jokes about people from Michigan, and Wisconsin -- Lubbock and Tuscon, Gary Indiana, and say Flint, MI. for example: Click on this cute joke about farmers in Illinois>>

Besides all that, it’s time to annex Mexico. Then we would have more of the two coasts and less middle. But that is a new topic. Expre'sate! >>pd

References

It turns out if I don't include all these actors' names, no one will read my postings, and all will miss my humor-ain't.

I retrieved all these images this morning from google images searches, and forgot to copy/paste the addresses. So bite me.