The answer to yesterday's trivia: They’re called “cow shoes”, and moonshiners wore them to make their footprints look like hoof prints to avoid being tracked by prohibition agents.
In the U.S. 40% of all food, and an incredible 50% of seafood, ends up thrown away instead of eaten.
Coolest five-second YouTube video ever.
Hump day musical interlude: I know I’ve posted this before, but I just love this example of interspecies play between a cat and a barn owl.
Cow shoes! I've seen pictures of Mexican migrants (ie 'illegals' in the parlance of todays political pundits) with actual cow hooves attached to their shoes to fool the Border Patrol.
And I wouldn't assume bootlegging is a relic of the early 20th century.
Cool trivia. I really wanted those points.
Posted by: Bill Y | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM