For some reason, I find it highly amusing that the Open Directory Project has a category specifically dedicated to Cowboy Poetry. It's also helpfully cross-referenced to Society: People: Cowboys. Now, I realize that the literature of the American West is rich and varied, but I can't help but snort a bit when I go to a site dedicated to Walt "Bimbo" Cheney and see lines like this:

At first, I thought to pull some weeds and knock down all that brush,
But then I thought the better, why disturb them with my fuss?

And then there's Paul's Cowboy Poetry Web page, with gems like "Branding Time":

Do it till it's too dark out, and then grab a bottle.
Real cowboys don't wear designer-jeans or pose like a male model.

I wonder if I'm now going to be flamed by a posse of rhymin' cowboys. Git along, little doggies.

On a note that is only marginally related, has anyone seen Project Grizzly? It's a documentary about a man named Troy Hurtubise whose goal in life is to create a suit that will protect him from bear attacks. It's all very elaborate—he tests out the suit by having people drop logs on him, shoot arrows at him, and beat at him with sticks and bats. He prefaces statements about which he feels strongly with phrases like, "Sure as God made little green apples."

I'm tempted to work that into my own conversations more often.