COWS and DRAMA: Time For Cows
The Telemark
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Cast In Order Of Appearance:
Announcer
Reporter
Telemark
SFX: opening Time For Cows theme music
ANNOUNCER
Cows in Norway? Today we are talking to the Telemark.
SFX: moo
TELEMARK
Hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy.
REPORTER
I take it you're Scandinavian.
TELEMARK
You can take what you like, but I'm a cow. A Telemark cow. I live in Norway.
REPORTER
Do you like it there?
TELEMARK
Oh yes. The mountains are beautiful in southeastern Norway. I spend my time there grazing and grazing and grazing. Hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy.
REPORTER
That's high roughage.
TELEMARK
High mountains.
REPORTER
No, I mean that kind of grazing is considered a high roughage diet.
TELEMARK
Well, it suits us very well. We are very efficient milk producers on a high roughage diet. Our live weight is 400 to 500 kilograms.
REPORTER
And your dead weight?
TELEMARK
Not nearly so much.
REPORTER
You have very interesting colors. You have a solid reddish color on each side that looks like it was painted on you with a roller.
TELEMARK
And the rest of me is a much lighter more whitish color. Red-sided is what they call these markings on my hide.
REPORTER
So if I laid you on your side and placed you between two pieces of bread –
TELEMARK
It would look like mayonnaise was squishing out of all four sides of the bread.
REPORTER
That is so neat!
TELEMARK
Yes! But you might break some teeth on my horns and hooves! Hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy. Bye now!
SFX: moo
SFX: closing Time For Cows theme music
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