Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Does a horse count as a cow?

From The Daily Mail:

A stable girl has died after being kicked in the head by a horse she had been helping give birth. Lucie Simpson, 20, was knocked down just weeks into her new job at a riding school after being asked to assist a vet in delivering a foal.

I don't know why they describe her as "stable"; I'd have said "much-loved" or something a bit more positive.

10 comments:

WitteringsfromWitney said...

Must do, udderwise you could not have done the post........

A K Haart said...

Maybe it was a Friesian cross.

Mark Wadsworth said...

WFW, let's keep milking these stories.

AKH, the horse was certainly cross with something.

James Higham said...

Sadly, it does not count as a cow. Are cows becoming scarce?

dearieme said...

"stable" is probably rarer than "much loved" among young women.

formertory said...

Could we settle on "stable-girl" as being a decent halfway house?

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, there hasn't been a cow attack for a couple of days so i was improvising.

D, maybe.

FT, aha, the penny drops. She was a girl who worked in a stable, not a girl who was stable. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Does a horse count as a cow? No, certainly not,but they sometimes do literature as a sheep.

MikeW

JuliaM said...

"JH, there hasn't been a cow attack for a couple of days so i was improvising. "

I know how you feel, the well of fake rape claims seems to have dried up too!

Chuckles said...

M, it's 'slow news' season, you just have to take what you can get. Water-skiing budgerigars and all that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14842999