If the Founders had instead used a Ranch theme - join the herd - what might've been some memes and themes here?
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We’d be able to award cow-flops for poor answers. If you got 10 GA for an answer under ten words you;d get an award for “Milking It.”
Four Good Answers while four people are watching would be an“Udder Delight.”
Howdy cowpokes. There’s a new sheriff in town… and he’s lookin’ fer deputies!
“Save a horse. Ride a cowboy.” would become a collective pastime.
And
All questions about breeding would have to be marked NSFW.
Poseidon (on the “this cowpoke has been deleted” page) would be a big, mean-looking coyote.
Pancakes would be flapjacks.
Great Answers would be called Yee Haws!
Instead of Read the Guidelines; What in Tarnation?!
The categories shall be renamed The good the bad & the ugly
Instead of followers/friends, folks would get along with their chaps, or would they just wear em?
We could have Cow Days, every one in four years, on the 29th of February hey, that is today…..., Happy Cow Day, everybody!!
Your name would be your Brand.
10 K celebrations would be a the Ranch.
Awards would include “It’s a Jersey thing” for showing attitude in an answer, and “Fine Bovine” for great answers.
It’s a shame Bendrew are no longer actively developing this site. I’m digging the Western Theme. It would be a great switchover, maybe once a year.
Before being banned, a mod, now known as Ranch Hands, would admonish contributers to “Get along, little doggies”.
Instead of Lurve there would be steaming Cow Piles.
There would also be Sheriff’s with bright badges to keep us in line.
Congratulations to you all. You’re very clever.
Instead of a whip, Auggie would carry a cattle prod.
The categories might be:
Serious like (General)
S’up? (Social)
Bullshit (Meta)
Haha, I love this. Could be an excellent April Fools Day theme…
Trolls would be ‘varmints’ that are shot on sight.
Instead of Jellies, we’d be called Ducklings.
There would be an O.K. Coral Reef.
@erichw1504 Naw, we’d be “cookies”. You know, as in the ranch cooks?
I’m a cookie, you’re a cookie, we’re all cookies.
Giving lurve to my jellies = Givin’ chow to my cookies
Categories for questions? I like Lean (for General), and Fatty (for Social).
The 20K Mansion? It’s actually a castle, named Chateau Briand.
Instead of occasionally running into Neptune , we would get The Mad Cow
@zensky btw great question! I was thinking about this all day at work, wishing I could post.
Instead of flagging, it’d be “SIC BALLS!”
Instead of flagging, we’d be roping.
Instead of going to the mansion, people would go to the bunkhouse or the big house.
Instead of saying “under the orange tree” @wundyatta would say, “Under the corn stalks.”
Instead of convening with the mods to remove trolls, we’d form a posse to smoke ‘em out.
The mods would all have Deputy badges and wear 10 gallon hats.
Auggie wouldn’t have a whip, she’d have a lasso and a six shooter.
@Dutchess_III would be Miss Dutchess, if you please.
Instead of lurve, people would earn pieces of beef jerky.
@wundayatta would be @waynedayatta
Auggie would have a branding iron and a cattle prod
Yes. Yes, you could.
But you’d have to change it after 9,999 lurve.
I’d milk that joke for all its worth.
If we’re changing our names, I wanna be WillRopeForChocolate.
Well if we’re gonna be changing names, I guess I’ll have to be HorseBeforeTheKartamom
I’ll be Keep_on_ plowing.
Newbs would be called Cowpokes
We’d all chat ‘Round the Chuck Wagon
Trolls would be considered Outlaws
Mods would be called Wranglers
Instead of a her regular whipping outfit, Auggie would don Chaps
In place of Fluther, it’d be called Drift
And we’d be part of the Cattle Drive on the Range instead of part of a collective.
I’d be SpurLover
I think I’d have to be appaloosa.
Here are some of the awards you could win, tell me what they’re for:
The Prickly Cactus Award
The Dust Bowl Award
The Butte Award
The Lonesome Trail Award
The Chuck Wagon Award
The Cow Patty Award
The Gunslinger Award
The We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges Award
The Saddle Horn Award
The Tanned Hyde Award
The Spaghetti Western Award
The Homesteaders Award
The Horse Thief Award
The Home On The Range Award
The Gold Miner’s Award
The Buck Board Award
For surpassing Wunday in lurve you’d get the Assless Chaps award.
Instead of “This discussion is closed” it would say Git along lil’ doggies
Instead of the Thank so and so button, it would say Much obliged.
The Chatroom, now called The Watering Hole would be called, actually it might still be called that, eh?
^^ Dogies. For cattle, not canines. :)
Frizzers! We don’t need no stinkin’ frizzers!
Those little sayings like “We drink your milkshake” would be replaced with:
We eat your chili.
Howdy Pardner!
You’ve done lassoed our heart
Don’t tell the others: You’re our favorite roundup pardner
Whoo-wee you shure do look a might bit pritty today
You clean up nice for a cowpoke!
@SpatzieLover Hey, hey, hey now. Ain’t no one allowed to be eatin’ my chili.
Instead of “Your desk is a mess”, how about, “Yer outhouse needs cleanin’.” :P
^lol4rl. Yer a real rodeo clown
Would we have to replace boobs Wednesday with boots Wednesday?
Would we have to start referring to Auggie as The Schoolmarm instead of the community leader?
Instead of the angry outburst, “F you! @ so and so!” Would people say, “This town ain’t big enough fer the two of us!” ?
Would @symbeline agree to dress like This?
Would @zensky look like This?
Would I have to change my avatar to This?
@Kardamom We’ve got to change our avatars, too? Fine then, this will be my photograph. I run the town brothel.
My profile page would say, “Be true to your friends if the Heavens fall…”
quote by Cole Younger of the Jesse James gang, when asked turn his partners in.
And a song for the moment!
We’d have: mod deputy says] What in tarnation is goin’ on ‘round here? Settle down, cowboy.
@augustlan but hoss, we gals and boys ar all riled up for a whoopin (or a whipping, your choice)!
Howdy yall! Come ‘n git yer grits here.
We’d have to put ranch dressing on everything! Including each other : 0
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