Cow Chip Shortage

As my regular readers know, my office mate Light Bright plays in a country music band.  They are playing tonight at a cow chip throwing festival which has a very strange problem: because of the drought, there are not enough cow chips, so they had to dip into reserves. If this raised some questions for you too, I will attempt to answer them. According to this article, the cow chips are bad quality because the cows have been hanging out in the shade near the barns, not out in the fields. Therefore their “chips” don’t dry right. The article also addresses the question of where the reserves come from: they are chips that didn’t break when thrown. The organizers are already planning to go out next year and replenish their reserves, which will be low after this year’s festival. However, it sounds like they will have enough cow chips for you to toss one, if you so desire. Light Bright says she is not planning to toss one, but if the crowd demands it, she will. She said she always does what the audience asks, and then hastened to add, “Within reason.”

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