SC - OT-OOP But VERY funny!

[Elaine Koogler]

All,
Please pardon this digression from normal list topics...though it could
go with the recent references to eating lamb............

I live near a small town and farming community,
> and the following event happened to a friend of
>  mine, a farmer named Ken Kellog.
>
> Ken raises sheep, and he has this surly,
> unpredictable ram which boldly tries to escape
> the pasture at any opportunity. He also has
> quite a temper (the ram, not Ken). A bunch of
> ravens had their nests near by -- about twenty
> ravens in all.
>
> Ten ravens make up a swoop, just like more
> than four sheep are a flock, etc. Anyway,
> these ravens loved to harass the ram. They'd
> fly down into the field and caw at him until
> he charged at them. Then they'd all fly upward,
> and the ram would crash into the fence. Once,
> though, one of the ravens didn't get out of
> the way in time, and he was crushed against
> the fencepost.
>
> The other ravens evidently decided to get
> revenge.  When Farmer Kellog came out to
> check on his sheep one day, he forgot to
> lock the gate properly. The ravens, working
> together, pushed it open, and lured the ram
> into the hayfield. They flew towards the
> bailing machine, with the ram in hot pursuit.
> At the last moment, the ravens pulled up --
> and the ram ran straight into the bailer.
> He came out the other side in a mangled package.
> Twenty big black ravens came to perch
> on him, leaving Ken with two swoops of ravens
> on a package of Kellog's brazen ram.
>

Kiri -- Just trying to provide each of you with that very healthy laugh
per day!