March 10, 2006

Hay. In art. Over 5,000 items, and they haven't even got Constable yet.
posted by Plegmund 18 years ago
  • I thought this was gonna be like them seed paintings over to the State fair! What a cool collection.
  • Hey that was pretty cool. I do loves me some Van Gah. I'm going out on a limb here and will assert that this collector does not drink.
  • I can't quite make up my mind whether this dogged pursuit of a single theme is inspired or, you know, just obsessive. But I like a lot of the stuff.
  • Hay hay hay!
  • *achoo!*
  • An engaging, if slightly haywire, roll in the hay! Good yaffle of poetry there too. Had no idea there were so many words related to hay. A medkniche of bananas to ye.
  • Hay there, Plegmund! Handsome and off the well-trodden way, 'tis. Re hay: some ancient wheezes for ye: Yours till the hay cocks. Yours till the hay cock crows. Yours till the hay cock lays eggs. That last one is not so far from occasional truth, as free-ranging hens of yore would often hole up in a haystack to lay.
  • you know, bees, i was just wondering if this was your site....
  • This is... well, full of hay. Which I suspect might be magnificent, although I'm reserving judgement until I've seen a bit more hay.
  • "Tis true I'm just a hayseed, sexyrobot.
  • That's gotta be a set-up! I demand a congressional investihaytion!
  • Ach, no more o' such hayjinx!
  • Our local Farm Bureau is raising a justified ruckus because a standardized test recently had a Language Arts question that required kids to answer that "hay" and "straw" are synonyms. All the farm kids knew that wasn't the case, answered "False," and were marked off.
  • I hate it when the language people think they own the language.
  • Well, that's just the last straw! Why do city folk hayte the country folk's way of talkin'?
  • Fascinating article, Pleg!
  • so . . . what's the difference?
  • If ye have a stack of hay, ye have nutritious feed for your hooved animals; if ye have straw, then ye only have bedding for 'em. Hay is dried grass, alfalfa, clover or such, while straw is the hollow stalks left after grain's been threshed -- hats and mats and so forth can be made out of it.
  • wow - the Internets did teach me something today! Thank ye kindly sir bees! /city_slicker
  • Of course, the lucky horses eat hay. When I was stable manager at the base stables in Turkey during a hay shortage, we had to feed the horses what the locals fed--siman tozu--chopped straw. It's mixed with cracked barley and bran chaff off the wheat. That, and an occasional weed is all many European horses get. On occasion, you get an American horse that thinks his bed is breakfast.
  • Actually, a cow with its multiple stomach is capable of digesting many items a horse, with its single, grass-adapted stomach, can't. A cow can thrive on hay that's been put up when wet, so that it's mouldy, whereas a horse has to have high quality, well-cured hay.
  • You know, Bees, one of these days I'm going to experiment and go out and dump a bunch of $1.00 bills in the feeder. It would cut out the middle man for the hay purchase, I wouldn't have to stack it, and it couldn't cost any more than feeding those nags does now, could it?