From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/11/26 08:13, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:51:52 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On 1/10/26 09:12, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:16:42 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James   
   >>> Nicoll) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In article <10jr3pf$fj7$1@panix2.panix.com>,   
   >>>> Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>>>> James Nicoll  wrote:   
   >>>>>> James Nicoll  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I suddenly wonder how my brother keeps his goats off his solar   
   >>>>>>> panels. Goats love to climb.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Asked and yeah, goats will if possible clamper onto any array that   
   >>>>>> offers foot holds. Esp young goats.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I can't believe goats won't eat major parts of solar panels and systems.   
   >>>>> They ate my friend's toyota.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> My brother didn't mention that as a problem but I do remember a goat   
   >>>> I had as a kid occasionally ripping fur off the St Bernard to see if   
   >>>> it was edible. And once, eating the shift off another brother while he   
   >>>> slept.   
   >>>   
   >>> Goats in cartoons, of course, are infamous for eating tin cans. Among   
   >>> other unlikely things.   
   >>   
   >> 	Not the cans but the labels from the cans.   
   >   
   > I'm pretty sure I've seen cartoons with goats eating cans.   
   >   
   > The reality may be as you say.   
   >   
   >>> Since most kids (I should think) see those cartoons, it can be (I   
   >>> would think) hard to distinguish cartoon goat behavior from real goat   
   >>> behavior. I certainly have no direct knowledge of real goats in   
   >>> proximity to tin cans.   
      
   	Well when the trope originated in the late 19th and early 20th Century   
   many more people were familiar goats and which is funnier the goat   
   eating the   
   can or the goat eating the label and the glue likely from hoofed animals and   
   edible for the goat?   
      
   	Goats are the originals of the present Santa Claus reindeer as they pulled   
   Thor's cart through the sky.  And to the Norse observing the ascent of   
   wild goats   
   up nearly vertical formations it must have seemed like they were at   
   least on the   
   verge of flying.  So the god Thor's blessed goats were just as magical   
   as their   
   driver.   
      
   	bliss  - does not get familiar with goats but thinks they are cute   
   little devastators   
   of landscapes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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