Bizarre question of the day

[asterroc]

Does anyone have a source for cow stickers? Amazon seems to only have third party vendors, and the best I could find on Oriental Trading were mixed barnyard animals. I want cows. Only cows.

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It's a running gag for me when I teach, and more specifically the gag is actually spherical cows, but that's even more specific and hard to get. It stems from two things combined. Firstly, having grown up in NYC, I find barnyard animals hilarious, and for some reason cows the most of all. Secondly, the spherical comes from how in physics (note the tag above) since a sphere is the simplest mathematical shape, you assume things are a sphere in the absence of other information, or just to make the math simpler. There's even a gag about spherical cows that I always tell my students, google on something like "farmer cow milk physicist spherical" and you should find it.

So as a result, this semester I've been giving students cow stickers when they get a perfect score on a quiz.