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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
This idea was suggested by our own DaveO,
and many thanks to him for it! And for your efforts this time, a special Golden
Cow Chip with Sorcha's Gilded Feblueberry Award has been designed. Comin'
In On A Hoof And A Prayer -- Early in 1997, the dazed crew of a Japanese Trawler
was plucked out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken
ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once
authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed
that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships,
shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes. They remained
in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed
Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently
stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into
the plane's hold, and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live
cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within
its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the
cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Cows Can't Fly by Gray Rooster
The story's short and to the point, be wary of the sky
You never know when a cow may chance to happen by.
Now here's the proof that cows can't fly
And evidence exists that when they try, they die.
Upon the deck a cow did crash
And sank us all mighty fast
It happened to me and my mates in 97 or 98
But good things come out of horrible fate
We went into the ruminate steak.