How good are you or do you think you would be at lassoing?

[steve(thelil)]

As part of the NBA all-star weekend telecast, they're having a couple of celebs and/or NBA players attempt to lasso a mechanical calf.

I've never tried to "lasso "(or "lariat", as some prefer). And I don't think about it much. But every once in a while I think about it and I invariably think it would be fun and that I'd be good at it.

[patricia]

Well, steve[thelil], I tend to think that you have been lured, by the performances of amazingly good lassooers, who make it look easy, to think to yourself, "I could do that."
It's much like when I watch the gymnasts perform ridiculously complicated maneuvers, because they've practiced them for years and make them look effortless, and I think, "I could do that."
Maybe you have some natural ability to lasso, or lariat if you prefer. I, if I were you, would check out this skill, perhaps in your basement or garage, before getting out in public with it.
Who knows? Maybe you are a natural lassooer.

[steve(thelil)]

Well, steve[thelil], I tend to think that you have been lured, by the performances of amazingly good lassooers, who make it look easy, to think to yourself, "I could do that."

Au contraire, mon amour. I've been watching celebrities and basketball players do a miserable job at it, and I still think I could make Monte's grandpa look like a piker.

I believe you're either born a great lasso-oeur or not. And I've just now heard my calling.

[patricia]

Au contraire, mon amour. I've been watching celebrities and basketball players do a miserable job at it, and I still think I could make Monte's grandpa look like a piker.

I believe you're either born a great lasso-oeur or not. And I've just now heard my calling.

Who could possibly argue with either your ability as a premier laso-oeur is that how you spell it?, who knew? Certainly not me, your humble scribe.
I often fantacize walking into a room containing a piano, sitting down and playing, with absolutely no idea I had any latent talent, roof-rippin' Dixieland.
Then I sober up.

One thing though. Do you have an outfit like Lash LaRue had.
As the Smothers Brothers used to sing:
I can see by your outfit
That you are a cowboy.
I can see by your outfit
That you re a cowboy too
You can see by our outfits
That we are both cowboys.
If you get an outfit
You can be a cowboy too.

The outfit makes the difference.

[Monte Smith]

Uh, very fucking good.

Here is my grandfather, Harry Haskell Smith, doing it in Montana in 1915:



Here is the same man doing it in Los Angeles circa 1975:



My father used to have us run around in the back yard and he'd lasso our necks for fun. West Coast represent!

[steve(thelil)]

Uh, very fucking good...................................

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My father used to have us run around in the back yard and he'd lasso our necks for fun. West Coast represent!

Just because you can catch a javelin doesn't mean you can throw one.

[Monte Smith]

Just because you can catch a javelin doesn't mean you can throw one.

I can't throw a javelin, but I sure as hell can twirl one. It's in my blood.

[Ron Thorne]

I'm not a real cowboy, but I'm confident that I could do this lassoin' stuff with the best of 'em. It's not at all foreign to me, even though, as I said, I'm not a real cowboy.

[Dr Dave]

As part of the NBA all-star weekend telecast, they're having a couple of celebs and/or NBA players attempt to lasso a mechanical calf.

I've never tried to "lasso "(or "lariat", as some prefer). And I don't think about it much. But every once in a while I think about it and I invariably think it would be fun and that I'd be good at it.

I'm an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
But my legs ain't bowed
and my cheeks ain't tan
I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
Never roped a steer cause I don't know how
And I sure ain't a-fixin to start in now
Yippie yi yo ki yay...
Yippie yi yo ki yay.

[bruce massey]

Roped me a pretty good dame a while back.

[rollhead]

I couldn't lasso you, but if you held a lit cigarette in your mouth, I could put it out with a crack of my bull whip.

[Ron Thorne]

I couldn't lasso you, but if you held a lit cigarette in your mouth, I could put it out with a crack of my bull whip.

Whilst wearing chaps?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

[rollhead]

Whilst wearing chaps?

Funny you mention that, when Steve(thelil) and worked in the same office, I would often see him wearing chaps and one of those old Tom Mix cowboy hats.

[lonely-at-the-top]

Roped me a pretty good dame a while back.

Me too. Now too afraid to take it off of her since she'd be outta here in no time if I did.

[Ron Thorne]

Damn, I'd forgotten that classic Smothers Brothers gag, Patricia. Thanks for the reminder.

[patricia]

Damn, I'd forgotten that classic Smothers Brothers gag, Patricia. Thanks for the reminder.

Lucky you. I can't seem to forget it, along with a jingle advertising a local shoe store when I was a little kid.

As for the question posed by steve[thelil], maybe lasso-ing is my calling and, if you ask me, my calling has been a long time coming.

[gonzo]

my grandfather had lived a portion of his life as a cowboy so he was always trying to teach me but i sucked.

[steve(thelil)]

My grandfather was a Yiddish cowboy.

He used to say "Chai Yay, Yippee Chai Yo, Nu?"

[Monte Smith]

I sing songs to Fulgencia Maeve Myfanwy every night and there are cowboy songs in the repertoire, including:

I am a Mormon cowboy.
Utah is my home.
Tucson, Arizona
is the first place I did roam.
From there unto El Capitan,
a place you all know well.
To describe that brushy country
no mortal tongue can tell.

[baksheesh]

Depends what the target is, how long the rope is, and my degree of inebriation,

[Monte Smith]

How could anybody answer this question, Oh I'm not that good? Or, I'm probably not that good? Here is a skill you will never be called out on. Never. The correct answer is "Uh, very fucking good." And for me, that's just true. I am, or I probably am, a genius lassowise. I could rope a damn atomy. I put the "asso" in "lasso."

[patricia]

How could anybody answer this question, Oh I'm not that good? Or, I'm probably not that good? Here is a skill you will never be called out on. Never. The correct answer is "Uh, very fucking good." And for me, that's just true. I am, or I probably am, a genius lassowise. I could rope a damn atomy. I put the "asso" in "lasso."

And who would ever doubt your skill, the skill for which you are most likely, at least locally, famous, through your word alone.