I swear to gawd the man on the left looks like my father. I am not kidding. I came from this cowboy stock. I came from a line of cattle ranchers. Deer hunters. Bunny hunters. Racoon skinners. You name it they were related to me. I don’t know how I managed to make it out alive. I became a vegan too-how in the world did I do it? I was born to be a farkel. I shudder at the photo. My father is dead. Rest his poor soul. But I am having flash backs right now. No wonder I am so weird.
Cowboys are outfitted by the same wardrobe department. Beer guts hoisted up by suspenders and dirty old jeans boots and western worn shirts and sweat stained hats. They drive old Ford pick-ups with a shotgun rack in the back window. There went my father. That is the only life I knew as a girl. Though he tried he could never get me to go hunting. I always thought cowboys were disgusting ruffians. We had the largest two day rodeo in my California town. I was forced to wear cowboy clothes and watch the rodeo events all day.
Oh, yes. Yes yes yes. Thanks, Jim for another one that hits the nail on the head. And Denderah, thanks for the term Farkel. I was running out of names to call ignorant uneducated cowboy cow punching deer hunting oafs.
I thought the term “cowboy” referred to ignorant uneducated cowboy cow punching deer hunting oafs. I grew up out west, surrounded by real and wannabe cowboys and cowgirls. I find the cowboy hats and boots to be iconic of an ignorant and violent culture, no matter how much “romance” city-folk attribute to them.
Jim, there are more fools that think these drug store cowboys in the movies are ‘awesome’ than there are real cowboys! And don’t try to convince them that the ‘Indians’ are really Italians and the movie was a spaghetti western.
In my neck of the woods, Denderah’s perfect description of a cowboy means she just described most of the dumpkeepers in Maine, except for the trucker’s cap in place of the cowboy hat! 🙂
Same kind of hats the logger-types wear here
My “Awesome ” was in a slimy joke way !!
Sorry you didn’t get it !!
I didn’t mean you, I meant whoever really does think that.
I would never in a million years think that “cowboys” are “awesome”. But “barbarians” YES. Can’t stand their arrogant, coldhearted, disrespectful, mean, evil guts.
Exposing the Big Game 
Couldn’t agree more. Pinned and scooped.
Whoa ‘pardner’, this is awesome!
I swear to gawd the man on the left looks like my father. I am not kidding. I came from this cowboy stock. I came from a line of cattle ranchers. Deer hunters. Bunny hunters. Racoon skinners. You name it they were related to me. I don’t know how I managed to make it out alive. I became a vegan too-how in the world did I do it? I was born to be a farkel. I shudder at the photo. My father is dead. Rest his poor soul. But I am having flash backs right now. No wonder I am so weird.
Farkel is a slang term for ignorant uneducated cowboy cow punching deer hunting oafs.
Cowboys are outfitted by the same wardrobe department. Beer guts hoisted up by suspenders and dirty old jeans boots and western worn shirts and sweat stained hats. They drive old Ford pick-ups with a shotgun rack in the back window. There went my father. That is the only life I knew as a girl. Though he tried he could never get me to go hunting. I always thought cowboys were disgusting ruffians. We had the largest two day rodeo in my California town. I was forced to wear cowboy clothes and watch the rodeo events all day.
My wife’s cowboy father drove an old Ford pickup, but most of them today have brand new $30,000.00 trucks. And I remember the Farkles from Laugh-In.
I love to hear that you came out of “the woods”! Good for you and the animals. “You have it or don’t”…and you do!!! Thank you so much! xoxo
Oh, yes. Yes yes yes. Thanks, Jim for another one that hits the nail on the head. And Denderah, thanks for the term Farkel. I was running out of names to call ignorant uneducated cowboy cow punching deer hunting oafs.
I thought the term “cowboy” referred to ignorant uneducated cowboy cow punching deer hunting oafs. I grew up out west, surrounded by real and wannabe cowboys and cowgirls. I find the cowboy hats and boots to be iconic of an ignorant and violent culture, no matter how much “romance” city-folk attribute to them.
Hard to believe anyone thinks of them as “awesome.”
Jim, there are more fools that think these drug store cowboys in the movies are ‘awesome’ than there are real cowboys! And don’t try to convince them that the ‘Indians’ are really Italians and the movie was a spaghetti western.
In my neck of the woods, Denderah’s perfect description of a cowboy means she just described most of the dumpkeepers in Maine, except for the trucker’s cap in place of the cowboy hat! 🙂
Same kind of hats the logger-types wear here
My “Awesome ” was in a slimy joke way !!
Sorry you didn’t get it !!
I didn’t mean you, I meant whoever really does think that.
Absolute truth..shared this
I would never in a million years think that “cowboys” are “awesome”. But “barbarians” YES. Can’t stand their arrogant, coldhearted, disrespectful, mean, evil guts.