"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
news:4317E78C.A025B815@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
> Vulnerable: Easily defeated bull.
>
> Trouble: Another mean bull.
>
> Kabul: Afghan Bull.
>
> Frantic: Excitable tic.
>
> Romantic: A tic in love.

Surely a Roman Tick would be an Ixodida. Or is that Greek?

(we bin spellin it wrong all this time)

Dick shunnery com:

tic  n.
A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face
or extremities.

tick  2  n.
Any of numerous small bloodsucking parasitic arachnids of the family
Ixodidae, many of which transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain
spotted fever and Lyme disease.
Any of various usually wingless, louselike insects of the family
Hippobosciddae that are parasitic on sheep, goats, and other animals.

Presumably, Hippobosciddae attack horses and cows.

Lyme Disease: Makes you metamorphose into Michael Rennie every time you hear
zither music!