The "Most Beautiful Goat" competition. SIx pictures from the Mazayen al-Maaz this year in Riyad.
posted on Jun 14, 2008 - View this thread

Goat Mountain appeared on my radar screen last September.
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - View this thread

The Goat and the Monkey in Rashomon. Part 1, Part 2
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - View this thread

Lupercalia is a festival that probably pre-dates Rome, and which later became known as St. Valentine's day. It had everything; sacrifice, cake, nudity, spanking and a love lottery. What do we get? A card. If we are lucky. But, who was Valentine? Did Chaucer make the whole thing up?
posted on Feb 14, 2008 - View this thread

It’s not the big fat radio collar around your neck that’s so bad. It’s not even being painted bright colors. It’s that every time you make a new bunch of friends, they all tend to die (146k PDF). Welcome to the life of a Judas goat (89k PDF), one of the worst jobs in the animal kingdom. Your naturally sociable nature make you ideal for leading sheep to slaughter or helping animal-control specialists find groups of your compatriots in rugged environments, where they proceed to shoot them—everyone but you—from helicopters. Of course, you then get lonely, so you go off and find another bunch and the process begins again.
posted on Dec 8, 2006 - View this thread

The tradition of the Regimental Goat extends as far back as 1775 and the Battle of Bunker Hill, if not earlier. Canada's own Batisse IX is said to be a direct descendant of Tibetan goats presented by the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria in 1884. Ask any regimental goat and they will tell you they are well respected, but military discipline can be severe when the regimental goat steps out of line.
posted on Jun 24, 2006 - View this thread

Northwestern University has suspended its girl's soccer team indefinitely, stemming from hazing photos surfacing online. The photos seem tame when compared with some other disgusting incidents. Does the punishment fit the crime?
posted on May 17, 2006 - View this thread

Goat on a pole: Institute for the study of The Goat, The Pole, Their Relative Positions
posted on Apr 9, 2006 - View this thread

Fainting goats [wmv] and their mysterious origins.
posted on May 30, 2005 - View this thread