Comments on: Why is it… http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WestfieldWanderers http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1376 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:14:19 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1376 Perhaps you should stop shouting “Mint sauce!” as you cycle by…

(I’ll get my coat…)

]]> By: j http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1338 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:00:28 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1338 lol
no offence intended.
Nick – Have you started winking a lot and turning round in circles yet?

]]> By: Nick http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1335 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:25:17 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1335 Oh I am dis, I am. Me and sheep, we’re like THAT! Maybe that’s because I once ate a sheep’s brain (it was in Paris a long time ago, and by accident, but that’s another story).

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1334 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:13:28 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1334 Paul – I think that makes the bike above the tornado, in scariness terms … perhaps that’s what we’re doing wrong in Afghanistan?
J – Or mine
Nick – clearly you are well versed in the ways and thinking of sheep.

]]> By: Nick http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1333 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:43:59 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1333 The explanation’s simple. Lots of natural things sheep see have wings (and make a noise), i.e. birds. So aeroplanes are merely noisy birds. Whereas sheep don’t see any animals or birds with wheels, therefore you’re unnatural and thus scary.

Q.E.D. (and Baaaaa!)

]]> By: j http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1332 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:37:54 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1332 Tip for when road blocked by sheep and no shepherd about – just get out of the car and whistle – the sheep will think a dog’s coming and sharply get back where they belong.
Begs the question about Bo Peep’s IQ.

]]> By: Paul http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1331 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:20:55 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1331 Sheep … one step up the country evolutionary scale from pheasants.

Bikes … a couple steps below the Tornado (http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafleuchars/aboutus/aircraftandequipment.cfm).

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1330 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:14:31 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1330 Huttonian – blasé just about sums up these ones as well. Whereas the planes still give me a bit of a fright
Dom – (ooh sharp haircut there BTW). I think there’s more going on separating us from sheep – loads of complicated genetic stuff, for a start, and three extra stomachs, but fair point
Autolycus – true but they can hear the plane which must be scary even for sheep, no?
AMP – no they’re all safely on the other side of a big stone wall from me. Which makes the running away part even sillier.

]]> By: amillionpieces http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1329 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:26:59 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1329 Do they ever do that thing where they run in front of your bike instead of into the field? Silly sheep. You do get to feel like a shepherd though!

]]> By: Autolycus http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/why-is-it/#comment-1328 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:25:58 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-1328 They don’t see the plane. They see you.

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