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To: Dr. Stupid
From: joesavage617@yahoo.com (Joe Savage)
Subject: Why???

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Joe Savage (joesavage617@yahoo.com) on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 01:23:59
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email: joesavage617@yahoo.com

realname: Joe Savage

subject: Why???

Form-ID: Dr. Stupid Form

Message: Why does a brown and white cow produce white milk, if it eats 
green grass under a blue sky and yellow sun??????????

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Dear Joe:

That was quite a question you came up with. You almost had me stumped. I had to really put the thinking cap on for this one.

OK, first off, the cow's colors are a non-sequiter. Why? All cows give white milk unless they are not healthy. Otherwise, we'd get chocolate milk from brown cows. The yellow sun did grow the green grass, but the key to remember is that the sun is a long way away and that the grass is in fact green. The blue sky is significantly closer to the cow than the sun, by some 93 million miles or more. A detail left out is that the cow has red blood. Combine the green grass, the blue sky and the red blood, and we have an RGB scenario. Have you ever turned up the RGB settings all the way on your computer monitor or TV? What do you get? White. There you go.

That was a difficult one. I think I will go have some orange juice now.
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