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Old 11-20-2004, 11:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ever heard of Bovine Bingo ?

We didn't until me moved "South". That's not something you will find in Philadelphia, New York or Boston, and Paris, London or Madrid, ...

It is a rural, Southern type of entertainment. Usualy a fund raiser for the local Fire Company, School or church.

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Does that exist in other "cultures" ?

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Bovine bingo is a game of chance that has gained some degree of popularity in American culture, usually for fundraising purposes for some charitable effort.

Bovine bingo is not really a form of bingo, but a form of lottery. The game is set up by marking out a grid of rectangles on an enclosed land area, such as a paddock or farm field. This is usually done by chalking lines. The grid cells are then numbered or otherwise identified in some way, and chances are sold on each cell. A cow (or other livestock animal) is then let loose within the enclosure. Where the first "cowflop" (defecation) lands determines the winner.
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Yes.

I have to admit, we have not yet gone & see one.

When we moved to Virginia a few years ago, we read a lot of free local papers, the type you pick-up in gas stations, just to get a feel for the "cultural" activities available in the neighbourhood.
That's how we learned about that.
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Hi Femuse, just out of curiosity, what part of Virginia do you live in? I'm curious because I'm a Virginian too, from the Chesapeake Bay region. And we have to "burn" our headlights too when it rains, or as we say "turn on." We live in a rural area, but bovine bingo 's a new one on me, but maybe that's because most of our farming is vegetables, wheat, corn and soybeans, no livestock.
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We heard about bovine bingo in Buckingham County, just before we bought our place, in P.E. Co.
A refreshing change from Philadelphia, where we were "tripping" over crack addicts. The next word I can teach is "burnout". Here, our closest neighbors are: cows on the left, cows on the right.

I think that "burn your headlights" may be said elswhere, but I have never seen that on a highway sign outside of NC.
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What a coincidence! As I said, I'm near the coast, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and my wife was born and grew up here, but I'm originally from the Philadelphia area too, I was born in Bryn Mawr and grew up in that area. Are you from Philadelphia originally?
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Bryn Mawr
that's not as bad as center city Philadelphia :D So close to the Italian part of town that we could hear the maffia gunning down each others A few blocks from a project / a few blocks from a tourist trap / surrounded by yuppies / an old Jewish cloth neighborhood dating back to the Civil War.
All this was vey "colorful". Peaceful, it was not. :D

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Are you from Philadelphia originally?
I'm French: I moved there in 1977-78.

My husband started a craft store in 1968-9, before it was fashionable. A bunch of hippies living in bombed-out buildings - now turned into the tourist trap known as "South Street". Mike is originally from south Jersey. Semi rural place - before it was eaten by malls.

We miss a lot of the convenience of a big city, but, if we had to do it again, we'll take "bovine bingo" any day.
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