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 ::Sure, the paraphrasing is fine. I was just asking if you thought it was wrong of me to suggest that people are pushing cows over because the cows are ""asleep standing up""; it's a non sequitur to say that ""people think it's easy to tip a cow over because cows are slow and dim-witted and weak-legged, but actually cows only sleep lightly when standing up"". 
 ::It looks like at least one other source defines cow-tipping as pushing over a ""sleeping cow"", so I'll add back my edit with a source.   "