[David Kelly]

well, on a side note our team leader has like 40 head of cattle. mostly Milking Shorthorn dairy show cattle.

and for a definition of Hoosier:

Pronunciation: 'hü-zh&r
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps alteration of English dialect hoozer anything large of its kind
Date: 1826
: a native or resident of Indiana -- used as a nickname
- Hoosier adjective


Word History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana.