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maybe i'm just not up on my 1950's colloquialisms but...

posted 17 years ago by stabbingtonbear
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"you're so bossy you should be milked before you come home at night"

what the hell does that mean?

are cows bossy?

maybe i need some old fogy to school me on the hip talk of great films like robot monster

[–] sbrashear 17 years ago

I'm not all that old, but I think I can answer anyway...

"Bossy" is a nickname for a cow in the US. It may come from the Latin 'bos' which is a cow or an ox.

[–] brucedgo 17 years ago

I lived on a farm and milked cows when I was a kid in the 50's. It was well known that If they don't get milked on time, they get irritable.

"I choose to think there is no free will..."

[–] stabbingtonbear 17 years ago

ya you are both right, I just feel that if I told a lady I was going to milk her, at the least I would be slapped

[–] Mad_Monkey 14 years ago

I think he was just wanting to get his hands on those teats!

[–] rwsmith29456 17 years ago

Very good. You are right. Haven't heard a cow called 'Bossie' in about 30-40 years.

[–] seashellz 14 years ago

you forget BESSIE, the BORDEN cow after the word bossy or "ol' bossy"

[–] carflo 14 years ago

Bordon's cow is Daisy. And Bossie is a collogialism for a milk cow and a very common name used when talking to a cow or cows.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

[–] EtaoinShrdlu001 8 years ago

Well, then . . . Who the heck is BESSIE ??

You Fill Me with Inertia.

[–] rwsmith29456 14 years ago

Yep, men really told it like it was in those days.

[–] FuzzyWzhe 14 years ago

Perhaps it's a bit ironic then that the man that played Roy who said that line was actually gay.

Just a bit ironic.

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