Wednesday Week Cafe

Eltz Castle, built AD 1157

Grumpy cat will not be ignored.

Mama dog is so proud.

Matching munchers.

Husky and owl have quick make-out sesh.

Horses playing some game that we humans will never understand.

The enchanted couch.

Rescuing a stray puppy wandering in the street.

Happy dog hops down the street.

A bear and tiger say Love Is Love, H8rz.

Grandma is a magician. She just conjured a divorce proceeding.

Elephant's got some shake with those fries.

Claws.

Giving a good boy his birthday pinata.

Puppy found wounded and dying in the street due to being run over by a car is nursed back to life. The first images are tough but it gets a lot better from there.

Trying to save plushie after a horrible attackpic.twitter.com/Rv6S0zNDso
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 28, 2025

Mother cat brings her kittens to the dog for babysitting when she needs a little break..🐈🐾🐶😍 pic.twitter.com/i9JZvzyUQn
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 26, 2025

Elephant asks for a snack

pic.twitter.com/RU3LLT8NVz
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 28, 2025

When dogs make babies laugh..🐕🐾👶😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/acGC9FGBWH
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

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Posted by: Beartooth at July 02, 2025 07:33 PM (8wKVG)

2 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
==

I like it ! How much ??

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

3 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

4 Watching puppy recover vid. Damn onions again...

Posted by: man at July 02, 2025 07:37 PM (tubbA)

5 I take it that elephants aren't keen on sharing.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)

6 I don't know that I've ever seen an elephant sashay before.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:39 PM (mADJX)

7 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 02, 2025 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

Probably could get Starlink.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:39 PM (d8x+f)

8 The horse video. That was a dominance move. The second squeal and the body shift was " I will kick your ass"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:42 PM (HFcKg)

9 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

10 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
______
Looks as if it was rebuilt after 1800 or so. Those spires can't be original to the 12th C.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (od0dV)

11 We'll see how grandma likes it when she puts her false teeth in tomorrow and finds out they've been soaking over night in kerosene.

Posted by: Paco at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (mADJX)

12 are horses smart ?

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (g47mK)

13 If that guy gave the elephant his unpeeled banana then I bet the elephant wouldn't like bananas with the peels anymore.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (eb5mD)

14 Oh, and those were some really common ( ugly) headed horses.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (HFcKg)

15 Thanks Clyde for the Twitter link in the prior thread.

I am reminded of:
"I will make justice the plumbline and righteousness the plumb-bob".

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (d8x+f)

16
Elephant eating bananas. Labels and all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (WEm1d)

17 The horse video. That was a dominance move. The second squeal and the body shift was " I will kick your ass"
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:42 PM

So, a boss move?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

18 runner, yes they are.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (HFcKg)

19 Haha, plushie surgery. At my house, it's squeaker replacement. Sarge watches intently!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

20 are horses smart ?
Posted by: runner

Quit yer naging.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (H7X8V)

21 Duncanthrax, exactly what it was.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (HFcKg)

22 Elephant eating bananas. Labels and all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:44 PM (WEm1d)

Chiquita won't mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 07:46 PM (d8x+f)

23
Owl to puppy: "Comrade, please do not forget this act of friendship when you come to power."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (WEm1d)

24 See, you take Circus jobs away from elephants and next thing you know, they're on the streets begging for food, soon, they're going to be knocking over Bodega's and 7/11's.

Book it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)

25 Baby laughs are the very best sound.

Posted by: huerfano at July 02, 2025 07:48 PM (n2swS)

26 Got to see something pretty cool this afternoon. Mrs. D was getting some dirt from the dirt pile, and exposed two very small bluish eggs. She brought them over, and I said my best guess was lizard eggs, and let's put them back.

While doing so, we found 4 more in the clutch, and two of them hatched while we watched, with two baby, still wet, lizards running off.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

27 huerfano , highly agree.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:49 PM (HFcKg)

28 When an elephant wants a snack, you best give him a snack....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

29 See, you take Circus jobs away from elephants and next thing you know, they're on the streets begging for food, soon, they're going to be knocking over Bodega's and 7/11's.

Book it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)
----
Ace did post a video of an elephant holding up a convenience store not that long ago...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)

30 12 My wife, a fan of thoroughbred horse racing, says that the racehorses have about the intelligence of a human 5-year old.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (77rzZ)

31 "Mate, yer moat's all squiffy!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 07:51 PM (mlg/3)

32 Ace is just begging for Wesley to show up to inform us that the 'elephant with a shake' is really a loxodont, not an elephant.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

33 Old castles =/= fiber optic cables.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Orr, yer just not properly motivated to explore ye old tunnels.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 07:52 PM (mlg/3)

34 Bulg, interesting. What's the basis for that conclusion?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:53 PM (HFcKg)

35 @29

>>Ace did post a video of an elephant holding up a convenience store not that long ago...

See, it's real, you take away an elephants ability to make it in the world and they are straight up going take what they need to survive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 02, 2025 07:53 PM (XV/Pl)

36 Eltz Castle, built AD 1157
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AKA - Swamp Castle #3 right before it burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV)

37 19 Haha, plushie surgery. At my house, it's squeaker replacement. Sarge watches intently!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 07:45 PM (h7ZuX)

The number of times I had to do surgery on my son's stuffies after the dogs got at them....

We always used novocaine. Although one time he hypnotized one of them first.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (1Gsou)

38 >>>Wednesday Week Cafe

Wednesday week?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 02, 2025 07:55 PM (p4nXC)

39 I couldn’t listen to the babies laugh.

That song was played at a coworker’s son’s funeral. He was 17. I had my youngest son with me. I felt horribly guilty for bringing him. But, I couldn’t have been there alone.

She walked up to me and hugged me and then hugged my son and told him she loved him.

Ugh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 07:56 PM (mT+6a)

40 34 The basis is my wife. Who shall not be questioned. She’s read it somewhere, I’m sure.

Don’t get me wrong. She thinks that horses are smart enough.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:56 PM (77rzZ)

41 39 I’m sorry, Nurse.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 07:58 PM (77rzZ)

42 Bulg, does your wife ride?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 07:59 PM (HFcKg)

43 The castle pic reminds me there's a kinda fun hgtv show called Castle Impossible. A young couple on a shoestring budget restoring a rundown French Chateau that the wife inherited from her grandpa.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (DIXP3)

44 42 She used to, as a girl.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

45 Are horses smarter than dogs? In general, I mean.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

46 fd, no.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:01 PM (HFcKg)

47 Nurse, you and I lock horns here a lot, it seems, but you do seem to have been a wonderful mother, and a kind and compassionate person overall.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (77rzZ)

48 We always used novocaine. Although one time he hypnotized one of them first.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Cute!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (h7ZuX)

49 >> Happy elephant

"Behaviors associated with musth include walking with a high and swinging head,..."

If you look close you can see the liquid dripping down his face as he walks past.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (+oHZt)

50 Are horses smarter than dogs? In general, I mean.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

I dunno. Ajax was smarter than some employees I've had.

Reef tries hard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:02 PM (d8x+f)

51 Ben Had once said that horses get spooked easily. Dogs are not like that.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (g47mK)

52 Nurse, you and I lock horns here a lot, it seems, but you do seem to have been a wonderful mother, and a kind and compassionate person overall.
Posted by: Bulg

Goodness Bulg, don't suck up to her. Nurse hates that!!

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (H7X8V)

53 Bulg,
Just like family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (mT+6a)

54 Virginia Morons can now enjoy Buc-ees, courtesy of their latest store, located right off I-81 in Rockingham County.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

55 I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)

56 Horse are a fight or flight animal choosing flight as the first option. The concept of breaking horses is long past.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:05 PM (HFcKg)

57 I don't have a lot of experience with horses. I expect they are smart at horse stuff. When I lived in the haunted farmhouse there was a horse kept in the pasture behind the house and it was smart enough to know when I was bringing a treat.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

58 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM (/y8xj)

59 re horses smart ?
Posted by: runner

Quit yer naging.
Posted by: Tonypete
===
But they're awful typists.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 08:07 PM (2yoRf)

60 Anything Eltz tonight, ace??

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2025 08:07 PM (2yoRf)

61 To think that horses was all people had for transportation, until horseless carriages came along.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

62
Eltz Castle seems to be a popular tourist attraction. I always feel ripped off by tours of castles, palaces, Queen Marys, etc. They're never immersive experiences, just stay behind the red velvet rope and look at our very fake bedroom tableau but don't touch. I always want to run around in every single room and jump on the beds. Lean out the turret. Lower the drawbridge. But I never get to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (WEm1d)

63 53 Just like family.

🙂

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:08 PM (77rzZ)

64 1 human year is four horse years. At 3 years old there are horse that are competing for million dollar prizes.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (HFcKg)

65 It’s amazing how some songs can bring such emotion.

Jeepers. I wasn’t expecting that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (mT+6a)

66 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.

Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob

Sold to Sturm, Ruger & Company.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (H7X8V)

67 61 Da Fuq?
— boats

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

68 So another day of #winning?
I'm not tired of it, we should do more #winning.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 02, 2025 08:10 PM (gKWVE)

69 Could be mistaken but I thought I saw somewhere a couple of weeks ago that they had been acquired by somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:06 PM

They sold to Ruger.

From Anderson, "With the sale now complete, the Anderson brand has been discontinued, and Anderson products will no longer be offered. As a result, warranty services on Anderson firearms, parts, and accessories are no longer available."

As for Ruger, the company issued a statement clarifying that it had no intention of continuing the legacy brand or catalog from its latest acquisition. Instead, the "strategic purchase" that includes Anderson's manufacturing facility and machinery will provide Ruger "the opportunity to work with a skilled and experienced workforce, strengthening its production capabilities and expanding its product offerings."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

70 Horses? Who needs those?
— Santa

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:11 PM (77rzZ)

71 How do you know when a baby is safe with your dog? Dog lover here.

Teared up at the sight of the injured puppy.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 02, 2025 08:12 PM (scrlR)

72 Maybe the foundation of that castle dates from 1157, but no way they could build the rest of that in the 12th century.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:12 PM (TgXbf)

73 Sold to Sturm, Ruger & Company.

I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (/y8xj)

74 Ears pinned back=hold on and dig in those heels

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (DhyYx)

75 Horses have housed, clothed and fed me for 57 years. I owe them alot.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:13 PM (HFcKg)

76 1 human year is four horse years. At 3 years old there are horse that are competing for million dollar prizes.
Posted by: Ben Had
*******
That three year old, Secretariat, still has not been beat over 50 years later.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 08:14 PM (EO9/2)

77 There is still time to insert something in the BBB to close the loophole that feckless and arrogant ACB left in the ruling.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:14 PM (g47mK)

78 I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.
Posted by: Oddbob

It's my understanding that Strum wanted the manufacturing assets only. They are retiring all Anderson product offerings.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (H7X8V)

79 Get to it House of Representatives!!

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (g47mK)

80 Medieval nobleman:

“I’m gonna build me castle here, or Eltz!”

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

81 For a subset of the Gub Thread readers, Anderson Manufacturing has closed up shop.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

They were bought by Ruger. My money is on Ruger will team up with Magpul and start making the RXM-15 rifle. Yes, Ruger already makes a MSR, but Ruger has always been absolutely ruthless about dropping models for more profitable ones.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (r6SF4)

82 >>I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

I know someone who has been thrown off multiple horses because they knew the guy sitting on their back was a moron.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

83 Goodness Bulg, don't suck up to her. Nurse hates that!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:03 PM

You know what nurse loves? The sound of woodpeckers woodpecking.

Work on your imitation of that, and watch nurse swoon!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:17 PM (0sNs1)

84 JackStraw, you were a good son to your Mom.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:18 PM (HFcKg)

85 I would prefer, in general, to stay away from horses. Any animal that can kick me to death is to be avoided.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:19 PM (77rzZ)

86 nurse helped me out of a dilemma today and I am most grateful.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:19 PM (HFcKg)

87 " To think that horses was all people had for transportation, until horseless carriages came along.
Posted by: runner "

I have thought about that. People treated their horses like we do our cars and trucks nowadays. Some were daily drivers, some pampered sports cars, others used as tractors or to pull vans and wagons and such. Some were well treated and maintained, others not so much and even abused and neglected. And most were scrapped at the end of their run, often with little or no remorse because they were just tools that had worn out.

One thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

88 It is always nice to ride by the farms here and see the new Colts running and bouncing around like crazy.

They do remind you of puppies that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

89 nurse helped me out of a dilemma today and I am most grateful.
Posted by: Ben Had

Do I need to bring a shovel?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (H7X8V)

90 One day I’m gonna quit all this shit, get a nice Appaloosa and go back to riding fences or guiding.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (DhyYx)

91 >>JackStraw, you were a good son to your Mom.

Still working on it, Ben Had.

But I had a big advantage over most. I have a great mom.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (viF8m)

92 Ben Had!

❤️

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (mT+6a)

93 Do I need to bring a shovel?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:21 PM (H7X8V)

Downside to horses- not hogs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

94 I wonder why. Offhand I can't think of much that Anderson would add to the portfolio except manufacturing capacity. And a cool logo I guess.
Posted by: Oddbob

It's my understanding that Strum wanted the manufacturing assets only. They are retiring all Anderson product offerings.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:15 PM (H7X8V)
——
I know nothing about this deal. But I do know about m&a. If Ruger is closing the acquired brand, then the the object for them was manufacturing, real estate/leases, licenses, IP, sales channels, etc.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (TgXbf)

95 Good evening all!
Has the bill passed? Has PDT threatened to shoot individual Congressmen out of a cannon yet?

Posted by: Jmel at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (bVhJi)

96 "Be a Man among Men on a Morgan."

-- Morgan Horse Breeding Association

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (0sNs1)

97 When we were raising lots of foals, evening drink time was watching them playing in the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (HFcKg)

98 One thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

yes...but a motorized vehicle can't give birth to a motorized vehicle calf.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)

99 If you don't have the horse sense to know what's good for you, you'll never get the carrot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (a/G0f)

100 "-- Morgan Horse Breeding Association
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

Do Morgan horses have three legs?

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

101 As for Ruger, the company issued a statement clarifying that it had no intention of continuing the legacy brand or catalog from its latest acquisition. Instead, the "strategic purchase" that includes Anderson's manufacturing facility and machinery will provide Ruger "the opportunity to work with a skilled and experienced workforce, strengthening its production capabilities and expanding its product offerings."
Posted by: Dun

it is now having an exclusive offering of 10 round ars

Posted by: n at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM (tbTAT)

102 Mr. Ed defined what a horse could be for a generation of American youth.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

103 Has the bill passed?

==

I hope they put something in there to put a stop to the TROs and lawless wankers who are trying to prevent us from succeeding.

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:25 PM (g47mK)

104 thing that is different about motorized vehicles is they last longer. The way we use them is not that different though.
Posted by: fd

is it right to suggest youve had sex, with another human, in a horse?

Posted by: n at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (tbTAT)

105 "yes...but a motorized vehicle can't give birth to a motorized vehicle calf.
Posted by: runner"

True. We can't breed cars. I suppose that is a significant difference. To aquire an automobile requires trading your time or other assets.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

106 Do Morgan horses have three legs?
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:24 PM

They go Earp when they burp.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)

107 I have no desire to ride a horse.

Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

108 >>Mr. Ed defined what a horse could be for a generation of American youth.

I don't know how to break this to you but that was a tv show.

Horses only talk on one night of the year.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)

109 "is it right to suggest youve had sex, with another human, in a horse?
Posted by: n"

Not me, but I would not be surprised if people have had sex ON a horse. Must be awkward for the horse though.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

110 I’m not a horse guy, but I can ride. Last ride was at 13,500 feet outside Quito in the Andes. It cost $5 and it included a long safety and practice session with the local wranglers. Oh wait — there was absolutely no safety or practice at all. You paid your $5, they gave you a horse. Off you go along a path that includes narrow winding between 200 foot cliff drops. Personal injury litigation ain’t a thing there.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:29 PM (TgXbf)

111 JackStraw, I don't know, these guys around here can voice their wants pretty clearly, or I have just gotten better at horse.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (HFcKg)

112 Horses are absolutely magnificent beasts. Except for the one who threw me in Cody and then tried to kick me.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (DhyYx)

113 I've heard barrel racers can stay on for a lot longer than 8 seconds, unlike bull riders.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

114 Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

It's not that bad. Beats walking. Kind of hands free driving before hands on driving was a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

115 >>>>>I knew a rider who was injured, because the horse got spooked by something. Ran into a tree.

I know someone who has been thrown off multiple horses because they knew the guy sitting on their back was a moron.

Posted by: JackStraw

>I was ejected from a horse when we crossed paths with a grizzly. The grizz bolted the other way because we were both scared shitless.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (a/G0f)

116 Cool Castle.
Internet says its been occupied by the same family since forever.

Make an interesting story how they managed the Nazi era - because they were full on members of that club or somehow remained neutral?
That and all the other turmoil of the last 800 years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 08:30 PM (/lPRQ)

117 My dad was kicked in the head by a horse named Xantippe. When he was three years old--my dad, not the horse. She was a nag, or so I was told.

I don't know if the horse knocked the sense into or out of my dad, to be honest.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:31 PM (1Gsou)

118 I don't know if the horse knocked the sense into or out of my dad, to be honest.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:31 PM

Possible use of and?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

119 Elric, as long you don't take your horses head out of the other horses tail.you are fine.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:32 PM (HFcKg)

120 "It's not that bad. Beats walking. Kind of hands free driving before hands on driving was a thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone"

I've been on a self driving horse. I had way more confidence in it than I would a self driving car.

Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

121 Cool Castle.
Internet says its been occupied by the same family since forever.

==

No kidding! How much ???

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)

122 Self-driving mules will definitely keep you out of trouble.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

123 My great-uncle Bub would ride his horse into town (Laramie) and get smashed at the local watering hole, and the horse always brought him home. Cars don't perform that service.

Uncle Bub was the one who rode Steamboat, the horse shown on the Wyoming license plate. Nobody has ever said if he made 8 seconds or not, so I assume he did not. I suspect he tried more than once.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (1Gsou)

124 👶🐶

How is dogs making babies laugh like boobs and beer?

🤔

❓

More proof that God loves us.

Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter ordinaire at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (OZEHh)

125 107 I have no desire to ride a horse.

Yeah, I’m gonna put my life in the hands of a 2,000-lb. steppe beast. No thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ)
——

It’s fun especially among gorgeous scenery, even for an urban guy like me. It’s almost like your Jungian archetype subconscious gets flashbacks to your ancient ancestors riding horses.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (TgXbf)

126 really cool people could sleep on a horse

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)

127 I've been on a self driving horse. I had way more confidence in it than I would a self driving car.
Posted by: fd at July 02, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (zZu0s)

128 43 I think in one of the eps (I haven't seen yet) they clean the moat either fire.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (DIXP3)

129 97 When we were raising lots of foals, evening drink time was watching them playing in the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:23 PM (HFcKg)

I bet that was one of the best times of your day!

Posted by: moki at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (wLjpr)

130 My dad and his younger brother drove a two-horse team to mow the hay fields starting when my dad was about eight years old. His description of accidentally mowing a skunk is... graphic. They both caught hell for that, since a direct skunk spray to a horse can kill the horse. Or so I'm told.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (1Gsou)

131 My great-uncle Bub would ride his horse into town (Laramie) and get smashed at the local watering hole, and the horse always brought him home. Cars don't perform that service.

Uncle Bub was the one who rode Steamboat, the horse shown on the Wyoming license plate. Nobody has ever said if he made 8 seconds or not, so I assume he did not. I suspect he tried more than once.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:34 PM (1Gsou)
——-

Same logo for Jackson Hole ski resort. I know it well.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (TgXbf)

132 There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. Or some such thing.
They still call engines having horsepower.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (HFcKg)

133 really cool people could sleep on a horse
Posted by: runner

Only a few years before my time 'Billy', our retired draft horse, would take Great Uncle Jake down to the bar, wait for him for hours and then bring him back home after he closed the place down. Jake would be damn near unconscious but Billy knew the way.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:39 PM (H7X8V)

134 The horse that almost killed me was named Demon. I should have known better. But I figured what the hell. When I got on the saddle my friend asked if I had any last wishes.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 02, 2025 08:39 PM (DhyYx)

135 moki, having palpated those foals at 20 days, foaling them outand them working with them to successfull show careers is a life I would never trade.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:40 PM (HFcKg)

136 >>>JackStraw, I don't know, these guys around here can voice their wants pretty clearly, or I have just gotten better at horse.

My mom had one I nicknamed Baby Huey because he was enormous and he used to stand with his head out of the stall with his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth. He also took great joy in destroying his stall, fences, pretty much anything that offended him.

Not mean, just a child. And a chatty boy. I liked him a lot even if he was a pain the ass to clean up after.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m)

137 Hi, friends!

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:42 PM (p4NUW)

138 Piper, I am sure you have a horse story ot two.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:43 PM (HFcKg)

139 135 moki, having palpated those foals at 20 days, foaling them outand them working with them to successfull show careers is a life I would never trade.
Posted by: Ben Had at July

Can we fit one in the back of my car? I will put a collar on her and tell J it’s another dog. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:44 PM (p4NUW)

140 Piper, I suppose that "Belly up to the barre" is not something you'd like to hear here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 08:44 PM (0sNs1)

141 Finally, Piper shows up!

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:45 PM (77rzZ)

142 Piper , the day will come when I see the right horse for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:46 PM (HFcKg)

143 Dogs>>>>>horses

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (77rzZ)

144 Castle nut: secured in place by a cotter pin to prevent the hub from falling off

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (D7oie)

145 30 My dad and his younger brother drove a two-horse team to mow the hay fields starting when my dad was about eight years old. His description of accidentally mowing a skunk is... graphic. They both caught hell for that, since a direct skunk spray to a horse can kill the horse. Or so I'm told.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 08:36 PM (1Gsou)
Amish, eh? Bet that made them stand out.

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 08:48 PM (LHPAg)

146 Piper did a fine job of moving cattle at the last MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:49 PM (HFcKg)

147 I liked horse riding when I was younger, haven’t done it in a while.

“Same logo for Jackson Hole ski resort. I know it well.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 02, 2025 08:37 PM (TgXbf)
My parents gave me a watch with that on the face when I was 8 years old. It moved back and forth when you moved the watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 08:50 PM (0DdMG)

148 14/ Sorry, Ben Had, kale-eating horses haven’t been bred yet.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

149 Castle nut: secured in place by a cotter pin to prevent the hub from falling off
Posted by: Kindltot

Depending on the application also known as the Jesus Nut.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (H7X8V)

150 138 Piper, I am sure you have a horse story ot two.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:43 PM (HFcKg)

Oh my gosh, do I. Like the time I broke my tail bone because I was riding an Arab bareback across a bridge and a bunch of ducks flew up and spoked him, he jumped all the way over to the other side- and another bunch of ducks flew up. I stayed on for the first sideways maneuver, I did not the second one. My dad said it looked like a cartoon, i was suspended in the air like I still should have had a horse underneath me, but there was no longer a horse there! I was 13. It was painful!

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (p4NUW)

151 Bulg, Piper stepped on a horse totally unknown to her and ride him beautifully.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:52 PM (HFcKg)

152 Horses have housed, clothed and fed me for 57 years. I owe them alot.
Posted by: Ben Had

Clothed? Really, I'd think they'd be lousy with buttons.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 02, 2025 08:52 PM (n4GiU)

153 151 Good for Piper. Some people can defy death wishes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:53 PM (77rzZ)

154 Is anyone going to tell Ace the castle pic is fake?

Cause I'm not.

Posted by: eleven at July 02, 2025 08:53 PM (fV+MH)

155 It was painful!
Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:51 PM (p4NUW)

I bet! you are lucky it was only a tailbone!

Posted by: runner at July 02, 2025 08:54 PM (g47mK)

156 142 Piper , the day will come when I see the right horse for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02,

I have no doubt! I just got new pictures of Picasso, he looks so good still, his coat is all shiny. He does not look 32. It is not going to be a good day when he goes galloping off to the pasture in the sky.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:54 PM (p4NUW)

157 Hey Granny. Payback is coming.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 02, 2025 08:56 PM (1bdKO)

158 151 Bulg, Piper stepped on a horse totally unknown to her and ride him beautifully.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025

Thank you, but as I recall, you told me to get out of his face and let him do his job. Lol. And told me to stop letting my leg slide forward. I still blame the saddle - that is a lot of leather! 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:56 PM (p4NUW)

159 I bet all the horses are nice to Piper, too, ‘cause she’s a chick.

Me? “Let’s trample the old white guy” — the horses

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:57 PM (77rzZ)

160 Bulg, you didn’t know I have a horse?

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 08:58 PM (p4NUW)

161 >>Dogs>>>>>horses

In some ways very similar. Probably why you often find dogs where you find people with horses.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

162 160, Piper, no.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (77rzZ)

163 Piper, after that session the dun mare went on to win the year end saddle.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (HFcKg)

164 >>>>>>>>I bet! you are lucky it was only a tailbone!
Posted by: runner
************
Real lucky. A similar event happen to my brother last summer. He ended up with a broken pelvis, 3 broke ribs, and a concussion. Only he was 54 not 13.

Posted by: Cosda at July 02, 2025 09:00 PM (EO9/2)

165
Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

It's one of my favorite memories.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 02, 2025 09:02 PM (qIp2u)

166 Horses are the most beautiful and noble of all the brutes in G-D’s creation. They always make me feel better when I see them on a hillside or pasture.

They can be a bit ornery, and they are smarter than you might think. They used to cause a lot of injuries and broken bones when they were the main source of transportation.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 09:03 PM (UTyB6)

167 Horses have a peculiar sense of humor. They like to nibble on your ass and stand on your feet when you're picking their hooves.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 09:04 PM (a/G0f)

168 161 The Proto-Indo-European root for “horse,” something like *ekwo- (thus “equus”

, is actually related to that for “dog,” *kwon- (thus “canis,” “hound.”

. The elongated snout was the semantic connection.

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)

169 Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

It's one of my favorite memories.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 02, 2025 09:02 PM (qIp2u)

It’s amazing how far they pushed him to try to pretend he was competent. Like complete idiots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2025 09:07 PM (Lhvai)

170 Horses have played an invaluable part of history. Armies and Conquerers didn't ride Vespas.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:08 PM (HFcKg)

171 Nooded

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:09 PM (SEFV4)

172 They used to cause a lot of injuries and broken bones when they were the main source of transportation.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 09:03 PM (UTyB6)

What about when they were the main item on the menu?

Posted by: Eromero at July 02, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)

173 Joking aside, Ben Had has forgotten more about horses than I will ever know and it’s an incredible thing to watch and learn from her.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:10 PM (p4NUW)

174 >>Horses have a peculiar sense of humor. They like to nibble on your ass and stand on your feet when you're picking their hooves.

The above mentioned Baby Huey liked to lean on me when I was cleaning his stall or fixing one of his "Did I do that(s)"?

He was a big clown.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:10 PM (viF8m)

175 Why the hell does a right parenthesis get replaced by a smiley face? Why can’t a gifted autist like “Big Balls” solve something like this before the penny-ante DOGE crap?

Posted by: Bulg at July 02, 2025 09:11 PM (77rzZ)

176 If you use the word we have always used, it’s an easy search for it: but if you must encode it, I will let you in on it, Bletchley Park is on to you!

Nooded!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:12 PM (SEFV4)

177
Why are you guys dropping the n-word?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:14 PM (Rrsaq)

178
OH, wait, I see, nevermind. It's Nemo being the nood Sponge.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:15 PM (Rrsaq)

179 Piper, you are too kind. I thank all the people that have challenged me to be better.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:16 PM (HFcKg)

180 Those dogs were wearing their masks like most people during the shutdown.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:16 PM (VofaG)

181 ***********
Real lucky. A similar event happen to my brother last summer. He ended up with a broken pelvis, 3 broke ribs, and a concussion. Only he was 54 not 13.
Posted by: Cosda at

The first and only time I threw out my back, knock on wood, was when I got on a thoroughbred I had just gotten off the track. She bucked so hard she broke the girth and the saddle and I went flying. A nose between her front feet buck. It was possibly one of the dumbest horse things I have ever done. I had given birth 4 weeks before this, the horse hadn’t really had enough time to let down from all the track garbage, I truly don’t know what I was thinking. Pregnancy hormones? Just stupid? Both? I landed in a bush, probably the only thing that saved me.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:18 PM (p4NUW)

182 According to Sarah Hoyt, new writers trying to kill off their characters in a Regency fanfic will have them die in a “carriage accident” like it’s the equivalent of an auto accident. It just doesn’t work! However, riding a horse, as young men of property were wont to do in the early 1800s, was inherently dangerous! In my own boyhood my older brother’s best friend was dragged to death by a horse: his foot got caught in the stirrup.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:21 PM (SEFV4)

183 57 years training horses professionally and I have never been hurt. I thank G-d for his giving me quickness.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:22 PM (HFcKg)

184
Probably why you often find dogs where you find people with horses.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

__________

One of the better Borzoi kennels has the registered name Horse and Hound.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:22 PM (/HVsR)

185 BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie says that he has enough votes to block President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ in the House.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:23 PM (AOsQT)

186 I got kicked by a Shetland pony when I was a kid participating in Little Britches rodeos.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (VofaG)

187 Fuck You, Pay Me.

Posted by: Rep. Thomas Massie at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (i0F8b)

188 Thos. Massie is a blowhard!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:25 PM (SEFV4)

189 The first and only time I threw out my back, knock on wood, was when I got on a thoroughbred I had just gotten off the track.

My mom's and her partner's business was training horses for eventing and dressage. Her partner was an Olympic/International level rider in dressage. Many of the horses they bought, trained and sold came from the track.

There are horses you can ride on tours and then there are athletes. It's the difference between driving a Chevy and a F1 car.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m)

190 Well we were almost down 1 Shiba Inu. My big black cat was being nice to him and he thought it was a good chance to nibble the cat’s tail. He just got slapped into next week across the snout. The cat didn’t put his claw out, thank goodness.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (p4NUW)

191 Any man who calls a false nood spends a night in the box.
-AOSHQ bylaws

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 02, 2025 09:26 PM (zZu0s)

192 Ben Had,
You only need look at a horse and he knows who’s boss.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (mT+6a)

193
I got kicked by a Shetland pony when I was a kid participating in Little Britches rodeos.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:24 PM (VofaG)

_________

A two-frame cartoon I saw had a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge but placid draft horse. The second frame showed the same girl getting bucked off a little pony.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (/HVsR)

194 I have a long story about an ER visit, a $ 500,000 horse and an impossible situation.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:27 PM (HFcKg)

195 Armies and Conquerers didn't ride Vespas.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:08 PM

Only because the J. Crew Messenger Bag hadn't been invented yet, and they couldn't look good doing it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 02, 2025 09:28 PM (0sNs1)

196 Jack straw- I wonder if I know your mom. I evented.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:28 PM (p4NUW)

197
We forget at our peril that horses have personalities.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:31 PM (/HVsR)

198 Federal judge Randolph Moss has ruled that President Trump's declaration of an invasion at the Southern border, which successfully reduced illegal crossings by 99.9%, was illegal and must be rescinded.

Posted by: Don Black at July 02, 2025 09:31 PM (AOsQT)

199 >>Jack straw- I wonder if I know your mom. I evented.

Wouldn't surprise me. As you know it isn't that big a world.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:32 PM (viF8m)

200 What I remember specifically when I was around the rodeo circuit was how one of our neighbors was a calf roper and how cruelly he treated his horse when he didn't do what he wanted.

Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (VofaG)

201
A two-frame cartoon I saw had a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge but placid draft horse. The second frame showed the same girl getting bucked off a little pony.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at

My older 2 daughters are incredible riders. My middle one in particular, even really young she had an amazing seat. When ponies are bad and you put an adult on them, they usually stop the shenanigans because they know. So we would put my daughter on them, if they were being naughty, not dangerous. She rode through some things! She was going BN cross country at 8, her pony was a saint, though.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (p4NUW)

202 About twenty years ago horses accounted for most of fatalities in our National forests.
They can and do kill you without even trying.
One should consider ground work with a horse a martial art and always be thinking about protecting yourself. Sometimes it is safer to be closer to a horse even touching the than being in range of being struck or kicked.
Remember the hind feet maim, but the front feet kill and a horse can swap ends quicker than a person's speed of thought. Watch the ears.
Mustang are looking for an excuse to bolt.

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (zus2x)

203 Blonde Morticia -
People are trying to be “clever” about posting notice of a new thread. You know the code word we always use. But NO, they have to say:
“There is a new thread posted above.”
Like they expect us to read English.
I won’t always be there to save the day, but when I am, you can expect a hearty, direct code word from me! (I don’t want to call it the n-word, but there you go! I will say it when it’s time - if I’m there!)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:34 PM (SEFV4)

204
Start the countdown! Charlie Javice, the Forbes 30-under-30 who ripped off Jamie Dimon to the tune of $175mil, to be sentenced on July 26.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:35 PM (Rrsaq)

205 It's as if I needed another reason to never buy a new Ruger again.

Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 09:35 PM (SJnNf)

206 @202,you,'ve been around a horse or two.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:37 PM (HFcKg)

207 Federal judge Randolph Moss has ruled that President Trump's declaration of an invasion at the Southern border, which successfully reduced illegal crossings by 99.9%, was illegal and must be rescinded.
Posted by: Don Black

Uh-oh. This means we have to let all the evicted invaders back in. Also any new invaders who want in. Darn.

Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter ordinaire at July 02, 2025 09:38 PM (OZEHh)

208 Palsy stroke
Surfeit of oysters
Iced milk and cherries on a sultry summer day
Savaged by a badger
Pushed off a bridge
Fish bone in the blancmange
Falling down stairs
Drowning when a punting pole broke
Blood poisoning from a gash from an axe / sword / misused hay fork
done in during an afray or brawl
Exploding Camphene lamp
uncovered drains
misjudged jocular activity on a train
Misdiagnosed ailment treated with incorrectly made mercury salves by a quack chosen more from shame than perceived ability

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2025 09:38 PM (D7oie)

209 Mustang are looking for an excuse to bolt.
Posted by: waepnedmann at July 02, 2025 09:33 PM (zus2x)

So are Arabs, goofy horses. Warmbloods make things up to spook at.

Posted by: Piper at July 02, 2025 09:40 PM (p4NUW)

210
Iced milk and cherries on a sultry summer day

_________

This is no joke.

Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at July 02, 2025 09:40 PM (/HVsR)

211 Thank you for your horse stories. This is like the throwback tech thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:41 PM (HFcKg)

212 >>They can and do kill you without even trying.

Sometimes all they do is stop short.

Christopher Reeve, aka Superman, was thrown from his horse during the cross country part of an event in Virginia and broke his neck. He didn't die on the spot but he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair and it the damage from that fall eventually killed him.

Nice guy. Too bad.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:42 PM (viF8m)

213 Randolph Moss is being silly. Nobody’s going to pay any mind to his order other than a bunch of blowhard Democrats who are out of power. They’re getting desperate! We’re winning!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:43 PM (SEFV4)

214
Randolph Duke >>> Randolph Moss

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:44 PM (/HVsR)

215 All these horse stories make me glad cars were invented.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 02, 2025 09:45 PM (3wi/L)

216 Randolph Scott >>> Randolph Duke >>> Randolph Moss

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (i0F8b)

217
Just like to remind You People we had missed the 3 year anniversary, June 18, 2022, when biden fell off his bike.

_______

Out: George Washington Slept Here

In: Joe Biden Fell Here

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (/HVsR)

218 I worked a summer on a ranch in Montana as a yout. The ranch was owned by a buddy of my Dad's who made it big and retired early.

I mostly moved irrigation pipe all day long. I had a horse assigned to that I had to use and take care of, me a known problem horse.

Day two, the horse threw me onto a fence with no warning. The lead ranch hand, Cowboy Bob, beat the shit out of that horse. I had never seen an animal abused before and was pretty shaken up.

Cowboy Bob explained to me that horses were just animals and it was his job to make the animals useful or else they would end up dead.

Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 09:46 PM (QB+5g)

219 My ex's favorite toast
Here's to the two things I love most, horses and pretty women
When I die may they tan my hide and make a ladies riding saddle so that I can rest between the two things I love best. Horses and pretty women.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 09:47 PM (HFcKg)

220 >>> 146 Piper did a fine job of moving cattle at the last MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 08:49 PM (HFcKg)

Why yes, she did.

The cattle are currently enjoying the ludicrous amount of grass in my pastures.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 02, 2025 09:47 PM (ULPxl)

221 Burg Eltz, one of our favorite places to visit....no one has castles like Germany does...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 02, 2025 09:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

222 A friend of mine was going to Vet School at TAMU in the early 80s. She was getting her usually placid mare out of a horse trailer: the mare suddenly backed up, knocking my friend’s head against a rod of the structural frame of the trailer. She had a concussion, or maybe something more: she had to drop out of vet school - she could no longer keep up, and her personality changed. She threw over her old boyfriend and wound up marrying a man who treated her like dirt. After the divorce, she got together with her old boyfriend who has been kind and loving to her. They are happily married, but she has trouble concentrating, and sometimes has irrational fears. She was not like that before.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (SEFV4)

223 Burg Eltz, one of our favorite places to visit....no one has castles like Germany does...
Posted by: Grateful

Slovakia and Slovenia might differ
* strokes pointy beard. *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (mlg/3)

224
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:53 PM (SEFV4)

===============

Wow. Sad story.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:55 PM (Rrsaq)

225 Michael Grimm, former (R) congressman from Staten Island NY and anchor on Newsmax was thrown from his horse during a polo match last year. He's paralyzed.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 02, 2025 09:56 PM (3ImbR)

226 All the pretty horses.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 09:57 PM (viF8m)

227 A friend of mine who worked for the University back when I was a professor said one trick to taming a horse was to pick up the horse in your arms when it is still little: to make it think you are stronger than it. The idea is that they still think that when they are bigger if you make a big enough impression on them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:57 PM (SEFV4)

228
omg rukm?

Elizabeth Holmes's husband is raising money for a new startup. He's developing a blood testing device.

I really really wish I could read Tyler Shultz's article about it, but it's behind a very expensive firewall.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (Rrsaq)

229 The operation on the plushie is totally staged and totally cute!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (SEFV4)

230 Horses: 1000 lbs. and a brain the size of a tennis ball. Just smart enough to know when they're able to mess you up. I've been on a couple that were very docile, bur I tend to distrust the species as a whole.

Posted by: PabloD at July 02, 2025 09:58 PM (TgNVd)

231 So every person on the planet is now part of a class action lawsuit?

SCOTUS has to strike that shit down asap.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 02, 2025 09:59 PM (nwGCR)

232 All these horse stories make me glad cars were invented.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

I once heard of somebody that got thrown from a car...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 09:59 PM (/lPRQ)

233 I’ve only really ridden trail horses until CowHorseQueen put me on one of hers. She told the horse, “don’t be an asshole” and looked at me and said”let’s go that way”.

So we did.

They sold the horse a few months later. I hope I didn’t ruin it being an idiot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (KUush)

234 JackStraw, Run with the Horsemen, not a book about horses, has the funniest story about a kid driving a mule team and lighting one one of mule's farts. Laughed till I cried.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (HFcKg)

235 The transition to horseless carriages was a welcome one for a multitude of reasons!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:00 PM (SEFV4)

236 Nood - TRex ONT!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 10:03 PM (SEFV4)

237 The ONT is stark raving NOOOOD

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415485

Posted by: mindful webworker - go now you been here fo houhs at July 02, 2025 10:04 PM (OZEHh)

238 One of you posted a Stormtrooper Parody Fanfic. In the feed over at YouTube I found a better one. For Empire Season Two is the best.

https://is.gd/6Lgpua

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 10:06 PM (WIJBc)

239 >>JackStraw, Run with the Horsemen, not a book about horses, has the funniest story about a kid driving a mule team and lighting one one of mule's farts. Laughed till I cried.

When you get the time to visit make sure it is in early Fall. That way I can show you the ocean and take you to Newport Polo so you can get your horse fix.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 10:07 PM (viF8m)

240 I’ve never ridden a horse, two elephants , but no horse

My Dad rode in the army. Morgan horses he said. Second Cav.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2025 10:21 PM (8I4hW)

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