Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

Good idea, Jim, but kudos to Roger - Abraham Lincoln's intended "test animals" were indeed cows.

Sergeant Smith Stimmel, who often escorted the President to and from the White House to the Soldiers Home where he spent summer evenings, recalled that on one occasion, the security detail was diverted into a cow pasture so that a dispute could be resolved between Mr. Lincoln and the lieutenant in charge of the Detail. The lieutenant subsequently told Stimmel: "As we were coming along, the conversation turned upon the peculiar structure of the cow, and the President remarked that the cow is a lop-sided animal, that is, one side is higher than the other. Is aw no, that I never noticed that one side of a cow is higher than the other. 'Well, it is,' said the President, and when he saw those cows feeding over on the commons, he said, 'We will just go over to those cows yonder, and I will show you that I am right about that!'" (Smith Stimmel: "Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln", p. 30-31.)

Roger, since a cow pasturing in your Florida garden might too quickly vanish in an alligator's stomach, you win a bar of cow spot chocolate instead to vanish in your stomach:
   
I am sorry I initially misspelled lop-sided as "lope-sided". I shall reward the prize to all participants who, I am sure, would instantly have nailed it had I spelled correctly...(The worst/weirdest mistakes actually happen when I forgot to switch the keyboard language and don't notice the autocorrection.)