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I’m 58 years old and I can count how many times I’ve heard that expression on one hand. It’s not, and hasn’t been a common expression since about 1780. A brown cow was a nickname for a barrel of beer, specifically in the early 18th century in Scotland. “How now brown cow” was a way of asking for another pint.
Another wrote that the sentence is used in elocution lessons.
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WHICH EAR?
Van Gogh
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Re Life Elsewhere —
If we are alone, we need to understand our inadequacies. If we are not alone, we need to be humbler.
–Paul G. Falkowski, Life’s Engines
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INTROSPECTION
Has the well run dry?
Is nothing left inside?
A vacuum with fading memories.
Be here now!
That’s the catchword.
Climb up, jungle girl!
Peek over the top.
What can you see, hear,
feel? Ah, locked inside with my
my feelings, my song.
Adrift in my bath, the sea!
The third eye blinks
and I am here with you
once more.
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BYE BYE…
Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News 
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