Toothing, Interesting Pets

[arisbe]

'Toothing' for Hi-Tech Sex with Strangers

That Oddly Enough story from Reuters sent me searching for "beginners guide toothing" -- not that I am personally interested, or even have the technology at the moment, mind you, but after all, communication is my profession. I was of course looking for A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TOOTHING, and, as you can see, I found it.

But the second link was from New Zealand: Determining the age of a goat is easy to do for the first few years of its life. The procedure is called toothing a goat. As one might expect (but why?) the page features a link to the Beginners Guide to Goat Farming

For those of you hardy souls who are still reading this,

"Goat" is the common name for any of a number of species of ruminant, cloven-hoofed, horned animals constituting the genus Capra of the family Bovidae. They are of the sub-order Ruminant because they have a four-part stomach and chew their cud, much like a cow or deer. The female, or " doe," usually has smaller horns than the male and is often termed "goat" or "nanny goat." The young are called kids. The male goat is called a "buck," or colloquially, " billy goat."

Goats and sheep together make up the tribe Caprini, from which we get the term caprine. The goat is closely related to the sheep, but differs from it in that the tail is shorter and the hollow horns are long and directed upward, backward, and outward while those of the sheep are spirally twisted. Goats also have beards, unlike sheep, and differ further by the characteristic strong odor bucks (males) give off in the mating season. Goats are far more lively and curious than sheep and make interesting pets.

"Interesting" is, to my mind, a word that covers a multitude of, ah...

All of which reminds me: shower time.

Comments

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

Goats are far more lively and curious than sheep and make interesting pets.

I like goats. My girlfriend had a goat once....cute as a button and very intelligent. It caught hemorraghic (sp?) fever from the deer in her area however and died. I was very upset. There are goats all over some of the islands in the Caribbean, they're fun to watch. Kind of like funny looking dogs. :)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, maybe dogs are just funny-looking goats.

[muelos.livejournal.com]

When I was in high school, my mother bought a female nubian goat as a pet, and named it "Chia." Chia was black with tan "trim," similar in coloration to a Doberman; and roughly the same size, at first. I remember hearing one guest remark on the "strange-looking dog." For the first couple of months that we had her, she cried plaintively, out of loneliness, at night. All night long. She sounded like a old woman being brutally tortured. I remember watching the police cars cruising slowly past our house. If any of your readers should decide to keep a goat for a pet, they should definitely consider getting two of them.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Ay. We apes really *are* a strange bunch. In the past signals of this sort were things like red neckties and so forth. But now it would seem it's perfectly sane and far easier to arrange a sexual rendezvous electronically with someone he or she has never met, but who is within several yards, than to just proposition the horny-looking person within that same proximity.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Red neckties? What's with those?

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

This isn't new. The Japanese were doing something very similar with a device called a Lovegety back in 1998.

hay to eat

[meadowskete.livejournal.com]

Had a belly laugh and blushed face when telling my colleague about me thinking of raising a few goats, especially the ones that eat only hay. He replied quickly setting me up, "Yeah, right, here is what they all say, "Hey!, give me a little bit of that....oh Hey!, how about a little bit of this...Hey! here is some more!" (My goodness, I laughing about it now aloud as I write this)! mjb

[dancing-gator.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is INSANE. And more than likely not clean or good for your health. Each to his own, I suppose.

A New Zealand Toothing Website http://www.toothing.co.nz

[(Anonymous)]

A New Zealand Toothing Website - Pretty interesting
http://www.toothing.co.nz
'Toothing is a form of anonymous sex with strangers - usually on some form of transport or enclosed area such as a conference or training seminar. 'Toothers meet by first connecting suitable equipment - such as a modern phone or palmtop computer. Users 'discover' other computers or phones in the vicinity and then send a speculative message. The usual greeting is: 'Toothing?'.

If the other party is interested, messages are exchanged until a suitable location is agreed - usually a public toilet, although there are tales of more adventurous spots such as deserted carriages or staff areas. What happens next is up to you!
http://www.toothing.co.nz