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.
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Does a horse count as a cow?
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Must do, udderwise you could not have done the post........
Maybe it was a Friesian cross.
WFW, let's keep milking these stories.
AKH, the horse was certainly cross with something.
Sadly, it does not count as a cow. Are cows becoming scarce?
"stable" is probably rarer than "much loved" among young women.
Could we settle on "stable-girl" as being a decent halfway house?
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.
Does a horse count as a cow? No, certainly not,but they sometimes do literature as a sheep.
MikeW
"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!
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
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