Next time you think you’re having a bad day:
Quite a few years back, when we were much younger, my wife worked for a few years at a large animal agriculture research facility in northern Colorado. One of the studies they were working on was a study of sperm motility in Black Angus bulls, the purpose of which was to develop better artificial insemination (AI) techniques. The… samples involved were taken with the aid of an electric probe that went in the bull’s, uh, exhaust port, which delivered a small shock to the prostate, which resulted in the sample.
One day, my wife came home a couple of hours late. Her hair was all askew, her shirt had a smear of cow manure, and her expression was formidable. When I asked her how her day went, she replied, “You know that electric probe we use to gather samples from the bulls?”
“Yeah,” I said.
“It broke.”
I felt my eyebrows go up. “You mean you…
