cowsay recursion

$ echo "Moo." | cowsay
 ______
< Moo. >
 ------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||


$ echo "Moo." | cowsay | cowsay -n
 ______________________________
/  ______                      \
| < Moo. >                     |
|  ------                      |
|         \   ^__^             |
|          \  (oo)\_______     |
|             (__)\       )\/\ |
|                 ||----w |    |
\                 ||     ||    /
 ------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||


$ echo "Moo." | cowsay | cowsay -n | cowsay -n
 __________________________________
/  ______________________________  \
| /  ______                      \ |
| | < Moo. >                     | |
| |  ------                      | |
| |         \   ^__^             | |
| |          \  (oo)\_______     | |
| |             (__)\       )\/\ | |
| |                 ||----w |    | |
| \                 ||     ||    / |
|  ------------------------------  |
|         \   ^__^                 |
|          \  (oo)\_______         |
|             (__)\       )\/\     |
|                 ||----w |        |
\                 ||     ||        /
 ----------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||







---
Information For Those Wishing To Try This Themselves:
---
$ cat /etc/debian_version
squeeze/sid

$ uname -a
Linux flower 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo apt-get install cowsay
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A fun variant:

watch -n1 "uptime | cowsay -p"

 __________________________________
/  10:33:55 up 2:37, 5 users, load \
\ average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08        /
 ----------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (@@)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
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