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Oct. 18th, 2003 @ 09:29 am (no subject)
Weird... A number of people im'd me to ask what "Cowboy Up" is. I'm guessing it's just a West Coast thing.

Cowboy Up is a "Cowboy" pride thing. I have cowbot in quotes because these are people living in suburbia, with a 4x4 pick-up and a gun rack. They most likely have never ridden a horse or own a gun for that gun rack. They like to line dance to Achy Breaky Heart while wearing their Stetson, over priced designer cowboy boots, and Wrangler Jeans. And the last time they touched a cow, if ever, was when they were five and milked one for about 30 seconds while at the petting zoo.

Oh, and they will plaster their truck with stickers like this:


In the old days they were called "Dudes". If they were any other genre, we would call them "Posers". But they get the name "Cowboy" for reasons that are beyond me. Seriously... These people are fans of cowboys and rodeos. If you are a football fan, does that make you a football player? No. If you watch car races, does that make you a racer? No. If you watch the cooking network, does that make you a chef? No. These people think because they have a designer western look and they watch people ride bulls on tv, that makes them a cowboy.

Take it from me, someone who has actually taken his truck out into the fields, ridden a horse, branded a cow, had a gun in his gun rack, and spent his summers on a farm (and I would still not call myself a cowboy), these people deserve to be mocked. That and Achy Breaky Heart fucking sucks!!!

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From:command_four
Date:October 18th, 2003 11:16 am (UTC)
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I live on the East Coast and I've been seeing a lot of people with "Cowboy Up" on their shirts. These people tend to be Red Sox fans. Care to explain any?
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From:adameros
Date:October 18th, 2003 11:32 am (UTC)
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Two thoughts on that...

  1. Chicago is in the Mid West. The mid west is almost all farms and ranchs, hence the cowboy thing...
  2. Chicago, historically was known as the nations meat market and butcher. The great cattle exchanges were there. When they would do a cattle drive, they would take them with on foot, by barge, or on train all the way to Chicago where the cattle was sold to butchers. The butchers killed and carved them up, and then the meat was sent all over the nation via rail.

So either it's a Mid West thing, or the city's historical ties to cattle. At least that's my guess.
From:kimmy8201
Date:October 18th, 2003 02:10 pm (UTC)
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um, but the Red Sox are from Boston...
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From:adameros
Date:October 18th, 2003 02:14 pm (UTC)
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Ooops... Nevermind then. My bad. Cowboy Up in Boston? Well, damn! Fuck if I know. :-)
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From:redstickman
Date:October 18th, 2003 12:03 pm (UTC)
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i hate them all. and have you seen the "cowgirl up" stickers?

lame.
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From:adameros
Date:October 18th, 2003 12:13 pm (UTC)
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Not to be confused with Pony Girls... ;)
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From:oihanen
Date:October 18th, 2003 11:40 pm (UTC)
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achy breaky heart hasn't appealed to me since i was 6, and even then it wore thin. billy ray cyrus has another song i do like, though, called "burn down the trailer park". :D

screw the cowboys. give me the whole damn confederacy. ^_^
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From:shenosoke
Date:October 19th, 2003 10:21 pm (UTC)
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I see this one a lot too, but its more like "Cowboy the fuck up...meaning "Grow testicles and just do it and dont be a baby about it"...but none the less very anoying. I swear if someone tells me the cowboy up im gonna hog tie them with a lasso and put a "circle J" brand on their ass. HEY! it was their idea
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From:adameros
Date:October 19th, 2003 10:23 pm (UTC)
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No wonder niavalender loves you so much. You have a kinky streak!!! ;)
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From:siwwy_wabbit
Date:October 26th, 2003 02:13 am (UTC)

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i ride horses. that is it. im not a cow-ANYTHING thankyouverymuch. 'cowboy' basically makes me think of jim [ranch manager at garrod]. he rode bulls proffesionally for 20 years. i have no idea how old he is [un-young] and hes been roping pretty much every weekend lately [tis the season]. and he just got a new horse from texas named skeeter bob. horribly generic. but a lurvely roping horse. i think it kinda says something that my favorite horse is named calgary, even though hes a mexican bronco they bought from arizona. and an all-around jerk, but still a great horse who leg-leads something lurvely [but he used to be a rodeo/ranch roping/cutting horse, so it kinda comes with it.. for what its worth, he HAS put a rider in the hospital for a week.

yesh.. i will stick with being dork.girl of suburbia in the lexus who loves whipping snotty horses into shape [though not literally of course] [at least not with the horses ive ridden as of yet]. and ive only been thrown once [not for lack of opportunity], which is either a sign of experience in that i can hang on, or non-experience in that i havent been shaken up enough.

/the [non-cow-esque] melis