What do you call a cow flopper?

[Cliff_Johns]

Where I come from, we call plops of cow dung, a cow flopper. I've also heard it called a cow patti (There was even a song called Cow Patty once).

For horses they are sometimes called apples. especially on the road they are called road apples.

What are the other regional names for this?

Please avoid making comments about the strangness of this topic and the correlation with the person who started the topic. This is a linguistic investigation.

Cliff

Oh, in case you couldn't guess, /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[beenthere]

It's just BS (bovine scat).
We always called them cow pies when on the farm. Nothin fancy like 'flopper' /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.
Had further clarification by adjectives such as fresh, alfalfa, throwable, baseball (for bases), dried, or maggotted. Probably a few more too, like meadow muffin, etc.
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There is a big annual Cow Chip throwing contest every fall in Sauk City/Prairie du Sac, WI too. Lot's of 'names' thrown about there. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif They can heave those things 190 ft or more.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Ah, yes. cow pies. Sounds so appealing, but not as appealing as a meadow muffin. That is a great euphemism.

Cliff

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue">What do you call a cow flopper? </font>

Land mines.

 

[RickS]

Around here (central part of TX) I've rarely heard anything but "cow patties". Some might say dung, manure or even "a cow pile". Now, if you step in a fresh patty wearing nice shoes or just before getting in your mother's car then the patty takes on a whole new set of names that don't need to be discussed here. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Never heard of a flopper. Darn funny, though. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Horse poop is usually "horse apples" or just manure.

 

[RickS]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've also heard it called a cow patti (There was even a song called Cow Patty once). )</font>

ahem...(clears throat)...."And I heard her say as she road out of town..."you've got to watch your step when the chips are down."....yippy yi yay....Cow Patty" -- he-he, I haven't heard that song in 20 years. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif As I recall Patty was a gun-slinging female who shot the bad guy when he slipped on a fresh cow, uh, flopper. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RickS]

OK, I found the lyrics to "Cow Patti"....

COW PATTI
From the film "Any Which Way You Can" (1980)
(Stafford)
Jim Stafford - 1980


From the badlands came the killer,
He lived by his knife and the gun.
He'd cut you just for standing
And shoot you if you tried to run.
He was as big as a tree and did what he pleased,
And everything he did was bad.
They said, if you was to kill him,
It'd only make him mad.

From the goodlands came the cowgirl,
Patti was her name.
She was hot on the trail of that killer
On a moped she called Flame,
'Cause the killer had killed her daddy
Just for spittin' in the road,
And you only had to kill her daddy once
To get that gal p.o.'d.

CHORUS:
Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.
Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.
She rode into town
To find the man
That killed her daddy.
Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.

The killer hit town at daybreak,
Ate the door off the local saloon.
He started to drink,
You could tell there'd be a showdown soon.
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
Old Flame was buzzin' like a saw,
And the whole town got quiet as a church,
When the killer stepped out for the draw.

Forty shots rang out, forty people fell.
Patti and the killer missed each other,
But they shot the town to ****.
The killer took a step toward Patti,
Said, "It's time I gunned you down",
But he slipped in something
That was laying in the street,
And was shot before he hit the ground.

Yes, the killer slipped
And it cost him his life,
And Patti said, as she raced out of town,
"You got to watch your step,
When you know the chips are down."

Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.
Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.
She rode into town
To find the man
That killed her daddy.
Yippee-i-ay, Cow Patti.



Now if that doesn't make you smile you need to seek therapy. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[dubba]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="red"> On a moped she called Flame </font> )</font>

Lol, I had to read it twice to make sure, then I had to sing it to believe it /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Can't remember the last time I heard that song, & I'm now assured that I never knew the words /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jagmandave]

Isn' that the name of Richard Petty's son? At least that's how it sounds when Benny Parsons' says it! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif


(Kyle Petty)

 

[Panache]

To get this thread back on topic.....Medow muffins!

 

[GeneD14]

Growing up in Indiana:
Cattle made "cow pies"
Horses made "road apples"

 

[Egon]

Was a time and places when they was called chips and used for fuel to make supper! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[CurlyDave]

I am waiting for someone to suggest burning them as a solution to high gas prices...

 

[froggy]

From the Nebraska Studies.Org web site:

"Most settlers built fires in stoves to heat their houses, but the homesteaders didn't have the same fuel sources they had back east or in Europe. Wood was precious. Coal was expensive. So what did they use?

Ada and her brother Burt McColl collecting "chips" (dried manure) for fuel on the Kansas Prairie near Lakin in 1892. Kansas Historical Society.
As with their building materials, they used what they found at hand. If you lived by a stream, you gather wood. Hay, straw and even sunflower stalks were used. And someone discovered that "chips" - that is, droppings from either cows or buffaloes that had dried in the sun - burned pretty well in the stoves. So, the chips were used for fuel. All you had to do was gather them up. Piles of chips up to 10-12 feet high might be built next to the sod house."

 

[froggy]

Here is an interesting web site you might want to look at:

web page

In 1989 the Wisconsin State Legislature proclaimed the cow chip the Unofficial State Muffin.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

That's a great web site. I love the "Chip Chuck'n rules" for the throwing contest.

Thanks,
Cliff

 

[Hydraman]

Used Hay /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif