Too Much Choice is Bad, Really

Well - I tried to edit the date of this post and ended up posting it in 2007. LOL. Typo city. I'll share it now and hopefully you'll get a good laugh and enjoy it.

If you don't believe me watch this funny video from the standup comedian and economist, Yoram Bauman.

Then if you still don't really think economics can explain happiness, look at the research about choice and happiness presented at the Ted conference. Barry Schwartz talks about his research on the paradox of choice.

Librarian's Razor - When in Doubt Alphabetize It!

So there I was paralyzed by choice -- all those wonderful cow names. I realized that I was spending a lot of time trying to choose the next cow name, when I had one of those librarian moments - let's just sort the list A-Z. So here they all are -- all 57 names that I have not yet used.

That's a lot of names. We have our work cut out for us. We better get moo'ing.

So cow #16 is Amistad, which means friendship in Spanish. This name was suggested by Gord who has yet to spill the beans on where his eclectic and a tad unusual set of names was compiled from.

1. Amistad


2. Amity


3. Anna Mary


4. Annabelle


5. Argos


6. Babe


7. Becky


8. Belaphron


9. Belle


10. Birdie


11. Cadence


12. Calliope


13. Cowabunga


14. Cowcow


15. Cowlick


16. Dagmar


17. Daisy


18. Darlene


19. Dobias


20. Emma


21. Flicka


22. Frieda


23. Gabrielle


24. Galileo


25. Geraldine


26. Hailey


27. Hannah


28. Heidi


29. Inger


30. Isadore


31. Jersey


32. Jessie


33. Juness


34. Lacta


35. Lily


36. Lullie


37. Maggie


38. Mattie


39. Mazie


40. Minnie


41. Molly


42. Moxie


43. Nellie


44. Nellie


45. Pattie


46. Penny


47. Quaff


48. Rosalie


49. Salchow


50. Sally


51. Samantha


52. Shirley


53. Shobi


54. Sidse


55. Sigil


56. Vacha


57. Wil-cow

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