Discussion » I love horses..

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Posted by ilovebeerme, 10:25, 27th January 2004:
 
...they're my friends.
Posted by cal, 10:37, 27th January 2004:
 
o_O
Posted by trim..., 10:42, 27th January 2004:
 
best of all the animals.
Posted by Brock, 11:14, 27th January 2004:
 
Nonsense. Badgers rule...
Posted by Rosie, 11:24, 27th January 2004:
 
AHAHAHHA!

I've been singing that for the last week and driving everyone nuts.

♪ I LOVE HORSES, THEY'RE MY FRIENDS! ♪
Posted by friday, 15:54, 28th January 2004:
 
Yay! I really do love them - their ace!
Posted by angeldelight, 15:57, 28th January 2004:
 
i have two. will mail pic to cal
Posted by friday, 16:01, 28th January 2004:
 
ace - what riding do you do AD?

horses
Posted by angeldelight, 16:21, 28th January 2004:
 
lol friday
just hacking now. used to do cross country when i was younger but had some bad falls

do you?
Posted by Brock, 18:10, 28th January 2004:
 
/struggles with horses/hacking and computer geek/hacking type joke. Head blows up, gives in.

:(
Posted by tommorris, 18:48, 28th January 2004:
 
Yeah, I was trying to work out what horses and {Perl|$languageofchoice} have in common. Boom.
Posted by friday, 06:04, 29th January 2004:
 
Maybe us ladies can give u some inspiration boys?

AD- I did 3 day eventing and my teaching certificate, and I used to groom for some of the top polo players in the UK - great fun with lots of pimms.

Im just now negotiating a horse to do an FEI World Dressage Challenge on - which is very exciting.

My instructor was trained with the French Dressage School, The Spanish Riding School of Vienna - AND the lucky guy also rode in the Grand National 3 times. He is ace.

However, too much work and 2 children to look after means I rarely get to ride just at the moment.

Best comment on dressage test at pony club camp was:

"Looks as though lots of fun - whoops - out of arena"

Best instruction from a teacher during a show jumping lesson was:

"Ride him in!!"

enough inspiration their boys??
Posted by angeldelight, 13:17, 29th January 2004:
 
wowzer friday, yr obviously a far better equestrian than i!
i blame my mother who nievely got me an arab chestnut mare (we could have raced her - she was super quick) for my very 1st horse at 9. i fell off that horse almost everyday as she was fearless and without brakes or steering. i gave up jumping when she took me - involuntarily - over the aircraft fusilage at a x-country schooling day!
Posted by tommorris, 13:20, 29th January 2004:
 
"great fun with lots of pimms"
Is that pimms as in the drink or is this more equestrian doublespeak? Because if it is the alcoholic variety, then there is a point.
Posted by arsepuppy, 13:21, 29th January 2004:
 
Chestnut Mare (by The Byrds)

Written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy

Always alone never with a herd
Prettiest mare I've ever seen
You'll have to take my word

I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand

Well I was up on Stony Ridge after this chestnut mare
I'd been chasin' her for weeks
Oh, I'd catch a glimpse of her every once in a while
Takin' her meal, or bathin
A fine lady

This one day I happened to be real close to her
I saw her standin' over there
So I snuck up to her nice and easy
And I got my rope out
And I flung it in the air

I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can

Well I got her, and I'm pullin' on her, she's pullin' back
like a mule goin' up a ladder
I take this chance and I jump up on her
Damned if I don't land right on top of her
Well she takes off, runnin' up on to that ridge
Higher than I've ever been before
She's runnin' along just fine, till she stops
Something spooked her
It's a sidewinder, all coiled and ready to strike
She doesn't know what to do for a second
But then she jumps off the edge
Me holding on

Above the clouds
Higher than eagles were gliding
Suspended in the sky

Over the moon
Straight for the sun we were riding
My eyes were filled with light

Behind us black walls
Below us a bottomless canyon
Floating with no sound

Gulls far below
Seemed to be suddenly rising
Exploding all around

I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can

And we were falling down this crevice, about a mile down
I'd say! I look down and I see this red thing below us
It's our reflection in a little pool of water
About six feet wide, and one foot deep
And we're comin' up real fast
Crawling down right through it
We hit and we splashed it dry
That's when I lost my hold and she got away
But I'm gonna' try to get her again some day

I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse
I'm gonna' catch that horse
I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
I'm gonna' catch that horse if I can
Posted by Abe Frohman, 13:29, 29th January 2004:
 
My lovely horse, Running through the fields etc etc.
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 13:30, 29th January 2004:
 
a'la Father Ted?
Posted by tommorris, 13:31, 29th January 2004:
 
Brilliant.
Posted by arsepuppy, 13:31, 29th January 2004:
 
Pah! My song involves a possible sado/masochistic sexual relationship between man and horse.
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 13:32, 29th January 2004:
 
Thats enough of that AP
Posted by tommorris, 13:34, 29th January 2004:
 
This is an important issue, Foghorn. Do not dismiss it so quickly:
www.geocities.com/nickeled_news2/manhors...
Posted by arsepuppy, 10:58, 30th January 2004:
 
This whole horses thing reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when I was out with Mrs. AP. We were walking through Leicester and past one of it's many derelict cinemas (for the sake of clarity, it was the old Cannon cinema, not the huge fuck-scary old Odeon). I told her that within said cinema was a huge horse which was abandoned there as a young'un, but it never stopped growing until the point where it now has to sit down with its neck arched downwards due to the restrictive nature of the ceiling. If you were to go in and see it, it would go (in a subtle Northern accent which I can't really describe here) "Hullo!-I'm-a-Horse!", and not much else because it's life within the building meant it never really gained a good command of the English language.

The story was so effective that Mrs. AP actually started crying :S

I'm a bastard...

So I had to cheer her up by telling her that it was happy in there because that was its life and didn't know any different.

Women are strange sometimes..
Posted by Abe Frohman, 11:05, 30th January 2004:
 
I'm not sure how best to phrase this mate, But how old is Mrs AP?

Your not turning all Gary Glitter on us are you?
Posted by arsepuppy, 11:09, 30th January 2004:
 
22, you sick, sick man. (She may have been on the rag though)

I recently tried to convince her my dad was Chinese, and also that the Chinese calendar worked on a hierarchy of animals based on size, i.e. years are named after smallish animals (monkey, small dragon, etc.), but I told her that months were named after smaller animals, hence the first month being 'worms' and the fourth, 'budgie'. She didn't believe a fucking word of it. Despite me going on about it for a week.
Posted by Abe Frohman, 11:10, 30th January 2004:
 
Ah, that's ok then.
Posted by friday, 11:11, 30th January 2004:
 
Pimms as in the alchoholic variety - a must at every polo match.
Posted by friday, 11:28, 30th January 2004:
 
No one commented on "ride him in"

Are you all unwell?
Posted by Sul, 11:37, 30th January 2004:
 
hehe. I feel and look like shit. :)
Posted by friday, 11:41, 30th January 2004:
 
eat some chopped onions, tomatoes, garlic and chillies - works wonders for a hangover
Posted by Sul, 11:42, 30th January 2004:
 
fuck that! I'm going for a pint.
Posted by WarHead, 12:09, 30th January 2004:
 
AP - Why should a story which is obvioiusly a load of old bollocks upset Mrs AP? Is she mentally deficient?
Posted by Abe Frohman, 12:09, 30th January 2004:
 
Old AP can be quite persuasive.
Posted by arsepuppy, 12:10, 30th January 2004:
 
and bastardly.
Posted by arsepuppy, 12:12, 30th January 2004:
 
WH: Do not underestimate the power of telling poignant horse-related stories to women. Even the tallest tales can turn them to jelly. JELLY!
Posted by Abe Frohman, 12:13, 30th January 2004:
 
and bastardly.
Posted by tommorris, 19:15, 30th January 2004:
 
I just had a thought. Perhaps the man in arsepuppy's tall tale had buttered up the horse by getting it thoroughly pissed on Pimms before the horse served as a wife replacement to him. Intoxicated equine rape!! (And you thought the MJers were annoying, wait until we get representatives from the Man Horse Love Association)
Posted by WarHead, 21:12, 30th January 2004:
 
WH: Do not underestimate the power of telling poignant horse-related stories to women. Even the tallest tales can turn them to jelly. JELLY!


What's the bloody use of THAT. Now, if you said it turned them into a raving nymph for 30 minutes I'd be interested.
Posted by arsepuppy, 11:10, 2nd February 2004:
 
That'll involve an entirely different kind of horse story.
Posted by friday, 13:53, 2nd February 2004:
 
dont do it AP, we dont want to know

;-)
Posted by tommorris, 13:55, 2nd February 2004:
 
Does it turn American women in to Jell-O?
Posted by trim..., 20:25, 2nd February 2004:
 
or jam
Posted by arsepuppy, 10:29, 3rd February 2004:
 
that happens on a monthly basis anyway...
Posted by tommorris, 11:10, 3rd February 2004:
 
Is this an admission that you took your last girlfriend, chopped her up and served her for breakfast with a few slices of crunchy wholemeal? Or are you a crumpet man?
Posted by arsepuppy, 11:21, 3rd February 2004:
 
My last girlfriend was disabled so I could have potentially eaten her legs without her knowing...



Actually, she did have feeling in her legs so that's just bollocks
Posted by tommorris, 11:23, 3rd February 2004:
 
Eating her bollocks? This is interesting. Actually, it's fecking scary, and I'm terrified that I live in the same city.
Posted by arsepuppy, 11:23, 3rd February 2004:
 
You have a sick mind...
Posted by trim..., 13:10, 3rd February 2004:
 
have you two actually met up yet? i mean you've probably walked past eachother and everything..
Posted by Doctor Lucid, 13:38, 3rd February 2004:
 
Dear god! The horse was stuck in the old cinema?

Sounds like a job for ...
Posted by cal, 13:42, 3rd February 2004:
 
which two - ap and his gf? i should hope so
Posted by arsepuppy, 14:09, 3rd February 2004:
 
job for who? job for who? tell me!
Posted by trim..., 14:59, 3rd February 2004:
 
ap and mr morris. they are both in leicester at the same university arent they?
Posted by arsepuppy, 15:01, 3rd February 2004:
 
BUT WHO WILL HELP THE DAMN HORSE???
Posted by Rosie, 15:06, 3rd February 2004:
 
I hate my boss.

*sorry, i just had to tell someone*
Posted by trim..., 15:07, 3rd February 2004:
 
well you're the one who invented it there, you get it out.

rosie, make a vodoo doll of him..
Posted by tommorris, 15:50, 3rd February 2004:
 
No, we haven't met up. Although I could walk around Leicester with a "SPREM IN YOUR ANAS" sign.