Cow tipping

As time carries on a folk tale follows a long with it; sometimes spoken from the lips of a “trusty” bar patron. The everyday cow tipping story that no one actually witness’s or successfully conquers themselves is the topic of discussion. No one actually sees a cow tipped to its side and just like many other myth there is a way to prove this actuality. Whether one chooses to believe the town drunk, is up to them, but the truth will reveal itself. Hopefully before a cow tips over a human.

Jake Swearingen, the author of, “Cow Tipping: Fake or Really Fake,” wrote this article to debunk what people already know but are not ready to give up the thought of a cow falling to its side. In his article he first discussed that even though we have all heard this story, no drunk man is going to venture into a cow pen, give a sleeping cow a good shove and watch it fall over. Finally informing the audience that after looking at even the possibility of getting a cow tipped to their side could come about, no cow will even be standing asleep because they sleep on their bellies. The author keeps the audience’s attention throughout with sarcasm by tolerating even the slightest possibility that this myth could be plausible.

The article “Cow Tipping: Fake or Really Fake,” is an article of truthful entertainment that not everyone is ready to believe. The author’s article is explaining every possible truth of cow tipping and then proving the truth wrong. Throughout the article Jake uses new reasoning to why a man cannot tip a cow over. He keeps his article all about proving this myth wrong and why it is still a myth. He brings in an actual farmer that starts out by saying “cows don’t sleep standing up,” that right there should be proof enough...

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...ing will live on” (Swearingen 16) until forever I’m sure. This myth will most likely never go away because there’s always at least one person in a group that really thinks it is possible to tip a cow over.

All in all I think the article was a triumph over those believers. As an article on a farmer’s magazine I think it definitely fits right in the realm of farming topics. It was a topic that everyone knew about but no one ever said anything about because they didn’t really know if cow tipping could actually be done. Jake was just giving that factual evidence to those people that were on the fence of disbelief and believing. He kept me intrigued in the article and made me a disbeliever. I guess I always thought it was possible to tip a cow over because no one ever proved it wrong in my eyes. He opened my eyes and shed light on the situation in an amusing way.