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“Gomer” is cowboy slang for a castrated bull, a steer. Gomers are turned out in a cow herd a week or so before breeding season. They have all the bullish instincts, but they can’t do anything about it. They chase cows around, bellow, throw slobber and snot, paw the dust, dry-mount the cows and bother them with their fake masculinity until the whole herd comes into heat and are ready for the bulls to do the real work.

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After turning gomers into the cow herd, cowboys often sit astraddle their horses and watch the frenzied ineptitude as the neutered beasts try to do something for which they are uniquely unqualified and unequipped. It’s always

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