Exshcushe me missh, have you sheen my, um, cow?
Submitted by Dick Wanner on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 1:15pm.
The latest word from Dublin is that Sinead Noonan, aka Miss Ireland, will be teaming up with the winner of a beauty contest featuring 30 of Ireland's finest young ladies parading around in the altogether. Judges will be looking especially closely at contestants' legs, necks, backs and udders.
And may the prettiest Holstein win.
The makers of Bailey's Irish Cream, a top-selling liqueur sold around the world, host a contest every year to name the Bailey's Top Irish Cow. The 30 cows entered in next month's contest are all outstanding producers. Contestants must produce over 22,000 pounds of milk annually to be eligible. But the winner of the Bailey's trophy will be judged strictly on her looks. There is no shortage of contestants. The winner walks away with 8,000 euros, which is more than $11,000 U.S. money. Losers get to keep their sashes.
One might think there's not a whole lot of actual cream in a snootful of Bailey's, but one would be totally wrong. Bailey's buys its cream from Glanbia, an Irish company that markets dairy products world wide. Some 1,400 Irish farmers milking 40,000 cows produce the 275 milion litres of milk that Bailey's buys for its product.
After a few conversions and a little math, that works out to 562 million pounds of milk, or 5.62 million hundredweight. Maybe somebody should tell the folks at Yuengling about this cream business.
What's the biggest crop in the Chesapeake Bay watershed? Grass. With 9.5 percent - or 3.8 million acres - of the total land area in the watershed, grass beats out row crops (3.7 million acres), pasture (3.1 million) and hay/alfalfa ground (3.0 million). It's not the grass itself that concerns the non-profit Chesapeake Stormwater Network, it's what people do to their lawns, golf courses, parks and athetic fields that causes them worry. There's a story about the grass behemoth in the issue due in your mailbox Saturday.
Does he really talk? N-a-a-h-h-h-. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/322309/
