The Compers Inn - Part 7

toniq

Dontskipit is this it??????

February 17th, 1930, was the first flight by a cow in an airplane. The milk that was produced by the cow during the flight was put into containers and parachuted over the city of St. Louis.


Mooooon Over Missouri

If you think the spin doctors for major advertisers come up with some pretty wild stuff today, consider what their kind of schtick would have been like 75 years ago.

On Feb.18, 1930, during the St. Louis fair in Missouri, someone got the bright idea of a special milk delivery. They were going to put the first cow onto a plane, and milk her while up there. In the interests of science of course, to see if the flight actually affected her milk production.

Elm Farm Ollie, known locally as Nellie Jay, was a placid, two-year old Guernsey cow, said to give six gallons of milk daily in three milkings. So poor Nellie was fed, milked in the morning and then loaded aboard the plane.

The plane circled the St. Louis fair grounds, while an unnamed farmer milked the apparently undisturbed cow. But that wasn't the end of it. The stunt was going to be milked for all it was worth. They packaged her produce in paper cartons, with little parachutes, and dropped them from the plane to her adoring fans below.

After that one famous flight, Nellie retired to Bismarck's Sunnymede Farms where she had been born, and died at the ripe old age of ten.

melvis

My friend and her kids are still here but going soon then I need to go to Tesco and try and get a chicken for dinner (I can afford one now OH will be bringing a wage in :rotfl:).

I also need to wash our bedding and have a general tidy up and have lots of comps to catch up on! OH out at work til 11pm all week though so can comp from when I get home from 5pm every day :T

toomanykids

Thanks Melvis & ginjim I breastfed all my kids and when Adam (now 7) was born we were the face (ha,ha) of the Lothian NHS Breastfeeding Support Group and our pics were everywhere :o. And my dad was head of the distribution depot in Glasgow for NFC who's biggest client was Nestle. And I'd never came across that story before!!

wokkies

:Dmorning peeps, well nearly afternoon:rolleyes:
sorry cheeky forgot your toast this morning, and everyone elses in here:o
Got woke up at 4.30 am by big woks(18) hammering on the door:eek: told dh to go open it and he mumbled something about not knowing who it was and call the police:rolleyes: so I went down to open it not really knowing if it was bigwoks:rolleyes: anyway it was, and he came in and said I'm knackered but I earnt 23quid totally baffled still and waiting for him to wake up:rolleyes:
really ought to get on with comping, have got 3 loads of washing out and one in the dryer and another in the washing machine. One of the rabbits managed to get out in the night but he is usually good and goes back in his cage eventually if you dont chase him, even though he kept going to his cage and shutting his door:rolleyes: finally he went in to a full bowl of food and I locked the cage quickly:D
dh is doing dinner and it smells almost ready, roast chicken(£1.99 Tesco) and all the trimmings:j
Hope everyones ok
right i better go do a few comps:D

bella165

ive done all the comps from last night/thismorning and now am buzzing to go i have my new size 14 jeans on and they are a bit loose so need a belt,
god that sounds good when i think about it as i was a size 26 this time last year,
well my cash is in the back all 80 of it they took 60quid bank charges,
(im gonna get it all back)so lets hope i win at bingo or noone will be fed this week lol,
see ya about 5pm guys happy comping

toniq

good luck at bingo bell xxxx

iwannabeonthebeach

easter and kisto both have recently updated facebooks so they're probably just getting on with normal life, whatever that is.
Stressed what Car boot did you go to? Matford? OH loves them. The Racecourse one is superb

Splodz

Wow well done on the weight loss bella... and good luck at bingo!

toniq

dontskipit??? was i close with what i found? xxx

wokkies

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
sorry me and dd have been roflma at big woks, he woke up finally when sunday dinner was ready, he owed dd 2quid from yesterday and told her there was a fiver next to his pc, so she took that:rotfl: and give him 2 quid change cos he owed her a tenner from christmas, then he showed us pics on his phone of the MAN:eek: who was chatting him up:rotfl:
Can I just say at this point I have nothing against gay people
anyway this man took a fancy to big woks and gave him money all night and he came home not remembering where he got the 25quid from but is starting to remember:rolleyes: and the man just wanted him to be his friend cos his big beefy boyfriend was chatting someone else up:rolleyes: big woks has got a black toe nail from having his foot danced on all night:rotfl::rotfl:
me and dd keep singing to him I kissed a boy and liked it, wanna come to a gay bar, gay bar, and YMCA:rotfl: He has a headache and asked us for painkillers but he still seems a bit peesozzeled so we said in a bit he can have some:D
Cant wait to tell his girlfriend what he has been upto:rotfl: