Have you ever had to tell your boss how the cow ate the cabbage?

whalewager · Jan 23, 2009

Well I just did and let me tell you something, it wasn't pretty but it was an adrenaline rush like hitting a big middle....

Or for you coupon clippers, finding a huge scalp...

tatehill2000 · Jan 23, 2009

ww are you 500 years old?? lol what the hell does that phrase mean??

tater

whalewager · Jan 23, 2009

No sir. I am 68 on wednesday.

JakeT. · Jan 23, 2009

Never heard that phrase before...

FeelTheTruth · Jan 23, 2009

almost... i came close. instead i told my boss how the donkey ate the biscuit. it felt just as good.

festeringZit · Jan 23, 2009

"How the cow ate the cabbage” means to tell everything ("straight talk"), like the cow eats everything. Ann Richards (then Texas State Treasurer) used “how the cow ate the cabbage” in a speech before the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

“How the cow ate the cabbage” appears to be a thoroughly Texas phrase and is found in print from at least 1935.

JakeT. · Jan 23, 2009

Thanks Zit.

barman · Jan 23, 2009

Haven't had a boss since 1980. When he turned me down on a raise request and I gave him the dramatic two week notice, he told me I could leave right away.

I guess he told me how the cow ate the cabbage.