cattle guards: What is a cattle guard?
- 03/18/13 01:08 PM
A cattle guard may be a source of nostalgia but it is NOT a person or a dog. A cattle guard is:
1. The subject of numerous jokes. For example: a popular version on the internet is that President Obama receives a report that Colorado had 100,000 cattle guards on federally owned land. President Obama wants to fire half the cattle guards because the Colorado ranchers protested his proposed changes in grazing policy. Upon hearing this, Vice-President Biden interjects that it would only be fair to the cattle guards and their families to give them six months of retraining. (16 comments)