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Viva la bull!
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The running of the bulls:
Waiting for a bull to put a man on the moon, or do open heart surgery. It may be able to do a colonoscopy though.
Not this one though.
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I can't get my cats to change the microwave clock twice a year.
Slackers.
Slackers.
Give em' time, 2 billion years.
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I can't believe you fell for that buncha bull, Watchdog.
You're joking, aren't you? Seriously, aren't you?
Reason I ask is because I made up that whole story myself just on the spur of the moment.
Don't need to be an animal lover to view it as a ridiculous event and its participants as thrill seeking fools. Gored and/or trampled? Too bad. They got what they asked for.
Depends on who it was.
It was actually started due to the actions of Jaime Perez, an intellectually-challenged and habitually intoxicated unemployed resident of a small village in Spain.
A local rancher had taken pity on Jaime and hired him for a few pesos a day to "guard" his herd of prize bulls. It was what we now call a make-work job.
Having spent his first day's pay on the village's local alcoholic beverage, Jaime fell asleep the next dayand left the pasture gate open.
The bulls...approximately 23 of them...promptly escaped and began running through the village.The thundering sound of their hooves woke Jaime and he started running after them as fast as he could go...but hung over as he was, he wasn't making too good a job of it. Villagers saw what was happening and took pity on the hapless Jaime...so they began chasing the bulls, too, quite a few of the young men jumping out in front of the herd and even running among them in a fruitless and foolish attempt to get the herd to turn. Approximately five of the young men were trampled by the bulls, three of them seriously injured as a result of being gored.
The bulls finally tired of all the fun and stopped running, whereby they were herded peaceably back to their corral and granero, where they spent a lot of time eating and doing whatever it is bulls do that equates with humans laughing among themselves.
The villagers then spent an inordinate amount of money in los cantinas y los burdeles, celebrating and retelling the events of the day. It was such an economic boon for the establishment owners, it became a yearly tradition in the village, and remains so to this day.
Oh, and Jaime? In recognition of his inadvertent dinero-generating actions, he was made the Spanish equivalent of Grand Marshal of the event for the rest of his life. He spent each year's festivities getting commode-hugging drunk and laughing at the real idiots who "ran with the bulls".
I think the last picture in this post verified my selfie related post. Goree had cell phone in hand, sure hope he got the picture, waste of a good abdominal surgery otherwise.
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The running of the bulls:
Man, I have seen cows branded that where cooked more than that.
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You're joking, aren't you? Seriously, aren't you?
Reason I ask is because I made up that whole story myself just on the spur of the moment.
If the Jaime Perez story isn't true it should be and I'm retelling it as fact after all I read it on the internet .
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Man, I have seen cows branded that where cooked more than that.
I was thinking it looked a little too done!
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It's true, some people can't seem to exist without their cell phone. That photo could also be a good advertisement against texting while running with the bulls.
But take a closer look at one of the other photos in my post...the one shown below.
In case you missed it the first time you looked, see that "lump" high up on the guy's right leg right next to his fashion underwear?
That's the tip of the bull's horn about to punch through his leg. And the guy's grabbed ahold of the horn, like he could make it stop doing that.
This is what (deservedly) happens to people who do stupid stuff.
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^^ I notice that many of those clowns end up with their pants down or off. Wut up wiff that???
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Well, the first non Spaniard to run the bulls in Pamplona was an Irishman.....
The whole thing started as a method to get the country bulls (that were originally fromPolish bulls) into town without mishap. These are bred fighting bulls. A few steers were driven in first and the full bulls would follow them.
There were a few guys with sticks that just kept them moving, in small groups, towards the bull ring in the center of town. Wasn't until the 1920's that a few non locals started fooling around, the Hemingway wrote about it, and everybody wanted to get into the act. Lunatics.
The whole thing started as a method to get the country bulls (that were originally fromPolish bulls) into town without mishap. These are bred fighting bulls. A few steers were driven in first and the full bulls would follow them.
There were a few guys with sticks that just kept them moving, in small groups, towards the bull ring in the center of town. Wasn't until the 1920's that a few non locals started fooling around, the Hemingway wrote about it, and everybody wanted to get into the act. Lunatics.
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Well, the first non Spaniard to run the bulls in Pamplona was an Irishman.....
The whole thing started as a method to get the country bulls (that were originally fromPolish bulls) into town without mishap. These are bred fighting bulls. A few steers were driven in first and the full bulls would follow them.
There were a few guys with sticks that just kept them moving, in small groups, towards the bull ring in the center of town. Wasn't until the 1920's that a few non locals started fooling around, the Hemingway wrote about it, and everybody wanted to get into the act. Lunatics.
Yeah, but that still does not explain why so often the pants come down or off!
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