Sophisticated Agrotechnologies or Hocus Pocus ?

Question

Agricultural Students and Farmer

There were these three Aggie agricultural students driving along this old farm road one day when they saw this farm, pulled in, and knocked on the farmer's door.

The farmer answered the door and the three students introduced them-selves and said, "We were just passing by and saw your field of buttercups and was wondering if we could go and get us a bucket full of butter?" The old farmer scratched his head and said, "You boys ain't gonna get no butter from buttercups, but you're more than welcome to try."

About an hour later, the three came back, thanked the farmer, and drove off with their bucket full of butter. The farmer once again scratched and shook his head, mumbled under his breath about "them damn uni students" and went on about his business.

About three months later, the same three students came up to the farm, knocked on the door, and asked the farmer if he remembered them. He chuckled and asked what he could do for them this time? One of them said, "We were just driving by and happened to see you now have a field of milkweed and we were wondering if we could go out and get us a bucket of milk?"

Once again, the old farmer chuckled, shook his head, scratched it and sarcastically said, "You boys go on out there and get your milk from my milkweeds."

Once again, about an hour later, the three came back with their bucket overflowing with fresh milk and drove off. This time, the farmer was really confused, but just a little less skeptical.

It was about three or four months later when the three agricultural students came back and again knocked on the farmer's door, this time saying that they were driving by and saw the field full of pussywillows.

Needless to say, the farmer went with them this time on their excursion.

 

Link: http://www.jokelibrary.net/occupations/farmer1.html#jew_hindu_and_lawyer_at_farm_house

Answer 1

And they returned from the field of pussy willows, each carrying a box full of meowing kittens.

(The farmer needed them because he had mice in the barn.) 

Comments

Lol - T(h)ink, I also prefer to look at the "innocent side" of this "domain" - they are so cute:

Answer 2

Really shouldn't answer this because I have a dirty mind but it was good for morning laugh, as always.

  

Wonder if they would have gotten beer if they picked hops! 

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Lol, Rooster, we have all some guilty thoughts - lol, willingly or not willingly.

Here's a link for a fun test:

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@ Marianne,

I don't get it.  I TRIED completing the words in the clip you posted and using them in rhymes, but NONE of my guesses worked! 

'Tis only the crudest and dullest of rubes

Who need much assistance when pulling on boots.

 

'Mongst all of my friends, be they present or quondam,

I never knew one who had use for a fandom.

 

My goodness, Marianne, I've had such good luck:

They all say, "Hey, Tink— you're my kind of folk."

 

I once had a chat with the fair goddess Venus:

She said, "Other Tink, there's just nothing like pines."

 

Marianne, I hope that you don't think I'm wussy,

But seeing that clip made me think of my purse.  

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My dear T(h)ink, there's double trouble,

muddled in some rubble bubble,

fighting against the slipp'ry thought,

messing up with the "grail" I sought:

 

With the first case, I'd utter "oops"

and switch to barrels needing hoops;

you chose the "boots", I'm into "books",

while naughty wording further spooks.

 

As to a name, which can't be told,

"quondam" or "grandam" are like gold;

matching a nice term like "fandom",

with a fitting part of "random".

 

Blushing at what can rhyme with "duck":

there's not much "luck" in getting stuck,

but "folk" with yolk, or useful cork,

inspire lunch with knife and "fork".

 

Dreading 'tenis', if "Venus" smiles,

most would run all the extra miles;

"pines" in line with "pints" and "pants":

there's more space for extra plants.

 

You're not "wussy" for taking "purse",

and the "pulse" is checked by a nurse;

some think that there must be a curse,

because they have loads to 'disburse' ...

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O'Tink, you DO have a talent here!

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But... but, Virginia, I couldn't get ANY of my words to rhyme!

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T(h)ink, you are doing great - and your verses with the hidden rhymes and puns are a delight!

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@Marianne,

Hidden rhymes... puns...??? 

But thank you anyway. 

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O'Tink, I have NEVER encountered that lapse-rhyme 'poetic strategy' before, and it is absolutely hilarious!

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Lol - oh yes, T(h)ink, also Virginia noticed and coined your innovative "lapse-rhyme" system.

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Thank you, Marianne.  As always, you are too kind. 

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@ Virginia,

Glad you liked them. 

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Well it is a lovely curtsy...but, where's her wings, and her martini glass???

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@Virginia,

She has her wings folded.  And as for the martini glass, she doesn't drink when she's posting rhymes. They would be too absolutely scandalous. 

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Well, N'kay, that explains it...

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You're very welcome, T(h)ink - .

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Answer 3

Well...I DO get it, but nevertheless I love pussywillows, the Salix kind...one of the delights of SW Washington state, lots of them here! (This photo is from the Seattle area)

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Yes, Virginia, these willow species are part of the early spring messengers.

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Marianne, ever since we talked about Pangeia, I think about it again whenever we encounter similar species native to the various continents...with amazement.

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Lol, Virginia - indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_willow

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Marianne, you prolly saw this - but from the Wikipedia link, this lovely Easter postcard, from Germany!

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@ Virginia,

That IS a lovely card. 

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Lol - T(h)ink loves it!

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Marianne, I actually thought of Tink when I saw this card on your link...she has such a lovely connection, as well as understanding/appreciation, of all things Germanisch!

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@Virginia:   My cousin, Tyrolean Tink.

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(sigh)...poor old computer cannot even OPEN that image...just as well maybe, who knew there were more diversity of Tinks around, is the world READY???    

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Maybe this one will open, Virginia.

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Nope...I looked at their explanation, and my Safari browser claims, on a gray page, that it cannot make a secure connection with the server. I get that a lot now, O'Tink, since my browser has gotten so out of date!

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Lol - indeed, Virginia, and the Tyrol is quite an interesting region, split between Italy and Austria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrol

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Marianne!!!

That link suggests that the earliest record of human settlement in the Tyrolean region dates back 28,000 years or so...

Um, do you think maybe faeries might live 28,000 years, or maybe even FOREVER? 

Anyway, I found this photo of fairy thimbles, which apparently grow in the Tyrolean Alps...I was looking for Tink's Tyrolean cousin fairy...

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Well, Virginia, I got a few links for you, about Tyrol, and about its legends:

Ötzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi

Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tyrol_Museum_of_Archaeology

Famous mountain ranges,

North: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites

and South: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordkette

Famous rivers:
South: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adige

and North: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inn_(river)

Famous places:

South: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merano

and Bolzano: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolzano

North: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innsbruck

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzb%C3%BChel

Ancient cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture

Legends:

http://www.dolomitipremiere.com/en/the-mistery-of-giants-of-stone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Laurin

and, for T(h)ink's relatives,

http://www.south-tirol.com/seiser-alm-schlern/goblins-and-witches-in-schlern

And before I forget, I remember, besides Andreas Hofer, Giovanni Segantini (at his birth, Arco in Trentino belonged to the county of Tyrol):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Segantini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Hofer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Segantini