Meep indeed.

This "cow" you speak of was actually a four-stage rocket codenamed the C.O.W. The reason you don't know this is because it was a top secret project. It was built and launched in the 1920s by some top-secret organization. This was done in a remote area populated only by a few farmers and such so that the project would not be noticed. A few of the farmers saw the rocket as it was launched and, because of its white-with-black-splotches color scheme and their limited knowledge of things that weren't farm animals, began spreading the rumor that a cow had jumped into the sky (and, upon the rocket's reentry a few weeks later, over the moon). No one believed them in any way, shape, or form, but because of a writer who heard this, it eventually became the classic nursery rhyme you know today.

THE END

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This "cow" you speak of was actually a four-stage rocket codenamed the C.O.W. The reason you don't know this is because it was a top secret project. It was built and launched in the 1920s by some top-secret organization. This was done in a remote area populated only by a few farmers and such so that the project would not be noticed. A few of the farmers saw the rocket as it was launched and, because of its white-with-black-splotches color scheme and their limited knowledge of things that weren't farm animals, began spreading the rumor that a cow had jumped into the sky (and, upon the rocket's reentry a few weeks later, over the moon). No one believed them in any way, shape, or form, but because of a writer who heard this, it eventually became the classic nursery rhyme you know today.

 

THE END

 

This story brought to you by Protosteel's Institute of Making Up Ridiculous Stories to Answer Pointless Questions (or the IMURSAPQ)

Pwotosteel, you are win. B)