The lonely shepherd

[Tom Zurinskas]

If the shephards are herding goats, the goatherders must be herding sheep.  And the cowboys - cats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8"

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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>> In this article about ChicagoO'Hare Airport employing goats to graze on
>> the runways to keep them free of grass and weeds, there's this sentence:
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>> The herd of 25 goats will be transported to O'Hare from the nearby
>> suburb of Barrington Hills in about a month, along with a shepherd who
>> will oversee them ....
>> http://inhabitat.com/chicagos-ohare-airport-hires-goat-herd-to-graze-along-runways/
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>> What, not a goatherd?
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>> Neal
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> Those goatherds get too lonely.
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> LH
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>> On 6/5/2013 3:44 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>> At 6/4/2013 08:40 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>>>> This afternoon a local TV newscaster (Atlanta) pronounced "malware"
>>>> with the first syllable like "mall." I would pronounce the first
>>>> syllable to rhyme with "pal"--though I don't believe I have ever
>>>> actually spoken the word; perhaps I hadn't even heard it spoken. I
>>>> there a "standard" pronunciation?
>>> What about "Male Contents"? is it mail, mal (as in pal), moll, or
>>> mall? is it CON-tents, or con-TENTS?
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>>> Joel
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