# Horses Are Prejudiced (And Other Interesting Things) - MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268 "2004-06-14T12:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/41 "2004-06-15T15:52:48Z")
So, how’s work goin’, **swampy**? On the bright side, Driving Husband and Quasi-Daughter phoned to say they’re kidnapping me for the day. I’m hoping for Vietnamese food, chocolate, and booze. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/42 "2004-06-15T15:56:17Z")
Thanks, **swampy**. I think I’m deaf in one ear now. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/43 "2004-06-15T16:02:23Z")
Feel better now, **Swampy?** I second the chocolate moonshine if it’s anything like chocolate martinis. They are very yummy. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/44 "2004-06-15T16:44:55Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > Say, **Welby** , you gonna hoard that one or maybe break it out later in the week when there’s a lull? I could sink my teeth into that one cause Mr. Anachi and I are mulling that very subject due to the fact that our shower tile might just dissolve into the garage any day now. Well **Tuppy** my little chickadee, maybe I will. I thought it interesting enough to post about. Then again, I’ve also found my nipples interesting enough to post about, so take it for what it’s worth. If things are still quiet here tomorrow I’ll slip in in and you guys can have two MMP’s for the price of one. -welby (still slightly hungover) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/45 "2004-06-15T17:02:07Z")
> [@dangergene](#): > > Holy crap Swampy that cyber-scream fell off the edge of the SDMB! I don’t scream often but rest assured, when I do, I make it well known. > [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > So, how’s work goin’, swampy? > > On the bright side, Driving Husband and Quasi-Daughter phoned to say they’re kidnapping me for the day. I’m hoping for Vietnamese food, chocolate, and booze. We shall see. MMMM Lissla! Maybe y’all should go find some moonshine and use a little chocolate liqueur and make some 'shinetinis! 😃 Work is going much better now thank you. It’s been a good almost two hours since somebody whined at me. You’d think that since they know I’m supposed to sign paychecks this afternoon they’d behave a little better, wouldn’t ya? > [@Exgineer](#): > > Thanks, swampy. > > I think I’m deaf in one ear now. \ **WHAT??? WHAT DID YOU SAY???** \ My first juvenile post of the week! 😛 > [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > Feel better now, Swampy? > > I second the chocolate moonshine if it’s anything like chocolate martinis. They are very yummy. Feeling all better thanks. The scream and the big sub sammich I had for lunch has done wonders. I liked the chocolate martini I had but I’m still a martini purist. Specially a martini with bleu cheese stuffed olives. MMMMMMMMM -swampbear (primal scream therapy is good) ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/46 "2004-06-15T20:16:26Z")
I had a 13 dollar martini when I was in New York. I about \ when the waitress told me the price. I mean, I expected high prices in NY, but thirteen dollars for one drink? Granted, it was made with Belvedere vodka (such a good vadka) and it was a good size martini, but still. Of course, if I’d had a still, I wouldn’t have needed to buy my alcohol. (Am I the only one who needs a Groucho smilie?) The thing about not understanding Yiddish is that you don’t need to understand it to know what it means. It’s a language where everything is context. I never had to look up _schmuck_ in the dictionary, but I always knew what it meant. Not like lavaliere. If you read that a lady had a lavaliere around her neck, would you know what it meant? See? But when I say the lady was a schmuck, you know exactly what she is, even if you’d never heard of a schmuck before. ;j (I’ve always wanted to use this smilie!) ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/47 "2004-06-15T21:31:55Z")
> [@welby](#): > > Well **Tuppy** my little chickadee, maybe I will. I thought it interesting enough to post about. Then again, I’ve also found my nipples interesting enough to post about, so take it for what it’s worth. > > If things are still quiet here tomorrow I’ll slip in in and you guys can have two MMP’s for the price of one. > > -welby (still slightly hungover) Awwwww, Welby gave me a nickname. 🙂 \ sorta sounds like a fat food container \ **Swampy,** Mmmmmmm! Blue cheese stuffed olives? Gin or Vodka? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/48 "2004-06-15T21:35:50Z")
Some _schmuck_ gave the lady a lavalier to wear around her neck. Teachers just live to see their students use new words they’ve learned in a sentence. Just ask **Ashes[sup]2[/sup]**. Ok, I’m home now (actually left work at 4 p.m. I had enough I tell ya, enough!), I’ve had me a couple cold beers and some supper. Things are good in swampland right now. Oh, and the big ol’ meanie came out in me today. I purposefully didn’t sign checks this afternoon. They’re locked up in the safe for me to sign tomorrow morning. After I get em out of the safe, of course. I mean, I’m not going to climb in the safe to sign em. The safe’s too small for me to fit in, else I woulda used it as a hiding place already. See, tomorrow is payday for those folks (several of whom were the cause of my earlier scream) and they’re kinda used to getting checks late afternoon the day before and going by the bank on the way home cause, it’s late afternoon and the bank won’t post the deposit til the next day anyhoo. However, I decided to leave a little earlier and told our payroll person I’d sign pay checks in the morning. Imagine their surprise when checks did not show up in their little mail slots late this afternoon. Dang that sounds petty of me don’t it? Know what? I don’t care! People should learn, don’t piss off the boss especially when he hasn’t signed your pay check yet. -swampbear (mean, petty, somewhat pissed but feeling better now boss) ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/49 "2004-06-15T22:16:25Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > As long as **dangergene** started the pedantic stuff: It’s \. Ya gotta have the little pointy things on each end. BTW \*\*Ashes [sup]2[/sup] it was a little of both. 😉 **Swampbear** , I’m a girl, my snerk doesn’t have pointy ends. In fact, I don’t have any snerk at all and have to borrow one whenever a snerk is called for. Which is why my snerk looks different from yours; contents settling during shipping and all that rot. Don’t worry about being petty, sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps you from pulling out a machete and giving people drastic haircuts. So really, pettiness is the kindest thing you could exhibit and everyone saved from the ol’ chopper would agree with you if you explained it that way, I’m sure. Show them your machete; visual aids are always helpful. I have had vodka chocolates and they were a bit on the nasty side. Real vodka made into some sort of liquidy stuff, inside a chocolate outside. Today has been kinda boring. I’ve cleaned house, done dishes, some laundry, watched dull movies, called my sister, and eaten four crumpets, half a chimichanga, and some salt licorice. Maybe I’ll go take a nap, I’ve been up five whole hours and I think it’s time. Ashes, who’s all verklempt because people are using new words ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/50 "2004-06-15T23:03:42Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Some _schmuck_ gave the lady a lavalier to wear around her neck. Teachers just live to see their students use new words they’ve learned in a sentence. Just ask **Ashes[sup]2[/sup]**. > -swampbear (mean, petty, somewhat pissed but feeling better now boss) I don’t have to ask **Ashes x 2** , I’m a retired teacher\*. However **swampy** , you failed to make clear in your sentence what a lavalier is. Such is the purpose of using the word in a sentence–to show that you knwo and understand its meaning. So, let’s brainstorm and come up with things that can be around a lady’s neck. then we can discuss which one is the most likely one to fit within the context of [b[swampy’s\*\* lovely sentence. All right, then, who can tell me what might go around a lady’s neck? \*This means I can think up a lesson plan in no time at all (a reflex developed from years of in-house substitution) and I can speak “edu-speak”. Go ahead, ask me how I can both boost a child’s self-esteem and empower him with a healthy respect for objectively-based performance criteria. And I’m still waiting for someone to answer. Do you want me to call on someone? I’ll get out my roll book . . . ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/51 "2004-06-15T23:16:07Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > All right, then, who can tell me what might go around a lady’s neck? [Raises Hand]OOH! OOH! ME!ME!ME! I KNOW! OOH! OOH![/Raises Hand] A necklace? A scarf? A noose? Dracula? **Tupug** gin please, just a hint of vermouth. Shaken, not stirred. Poured into a chilled martini glass. Oh, and served by a burly bartender. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/52 "2004-06-15T23:56:11Z")
> [@Wintermute](#): > > Isn’t that the best? When you look around and realize you’re still in the saddle instead of flat on your back. What a thrill! Yeh, especially when you’re on a 16.1 hand Thoroughbred with _ **looooooooong** _ legs. At least he didn’t buck. So far – so far! – I haven’t come off during any of his (THANK GOD) infrequent spook bucks, but he sure can get that hang-time. I’m so glad I trailride him in an Australian stock saddle – those polys have saved me more than once. I hardly even minded the bruises they left behind, last time he launched me. 😃 > [@](#): > > This is my favorite. I know, it means melanoma down the line, but I just can’t resist a dapple gray - they’re just so pretty! Of course, I’ve never owned one. I know what you mean. There’s an elderly gray gelding at the barn who’s got melanoma, and not much longer to live. I’ve never owned a gray, and wouldn’t want to for that reason, and for the fact that you just can’t get the same gleam and shine on them as you can on [a bay or chestnut](http://community.webshots.com/photo/735286/128041607qXSSvk) (my Quarter Horse’s color). > [@](#): > > Speaking of grays, did you see the Derby? Did you see that blue colt? He was so dark it was hard to tell, but when they were parading them out, you could see he was actually iron gray and not just bay or brown, like the others. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a horse that color! No, darn it, I missed it. Was he the color of the [horse on the lower right](http://www.horsesamerica.com/pages/fourth.htm), or even darker? I don’t think [blue roan](http://www.blueroans.com/azul_caballo_amigo.php) is an accepted color in the Jockey Club Registry, although red roans rarely do appear. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/53 "2004-06-16T00:20:15Z")
> [@Wintermute](#): > > Anybody looking to sell a car? (Not you, **Scout**! 😉 ) Who shot who in the what now? You got a problem with my little VW Golf? Or are you confusing me with **Ashes, Ashes** who’s been having major car troubles? Everyone’s done so well this week, but I gotta admit I’m a little kerfuffled without our ringleader. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/54 "2004-06-16T00:52:27Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > [Raises Hand]OOH! OOH! ME!ME!ME! I KNOW! OOH! OOH![/Raises Hand] > > A necklace? A scarf? A noose? Dracula? > **Tupug** gin please, just a hint of vermouth. Shaken, not stirred. Poured into a chilled martini glass. Oh, and served by a burly bartender. 😃 Very good, **swampy** , I think I also heard a necktie, a feather boa, a real boa and Jack the Ripper’s hands. I can understand why some people may not have wanted to be associated with those answers, but when we brainstorm, there are no right of worng answers. Help me. I’m stuck in teacher mode and can’t get out. I’m going to assign homework next. And I don’t grade on a curve. Everyone, for tomorrow, choose two of these suggestions and write a paragraph on each one saying why it would or would not mean the same as the word (lavalier) used in **swampy’s** original sentence. **swampy** , using gin is fine, but shaken! I didn’t have you pegged as a weak martini man. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/55 "2004-06-16T00:57:31Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > I’m a girl, my snerk doesn’t have pointy ends. > Don’t worry about being petty, sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps you from pulling out a machete and giving people drastic haircuts. So really, pettiness is the kindest thing you could exhibit and everyone saved from the ol’ chopper would agree with you if you explained it that way, I’m sure. Show them your machete; visual aids are always helpful. \ I thought all girls had pointy things. \ Actually, I’m thinking more along the lines of a chainsaw. You know: **VROOOM! VROOOM! VROOOM! VROOOM! VROOOM! ROOOOOOOOOOOWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRH! ROOOWRRR! ROOOWRR! ROOWRR!** You got a problem with something? Do I need to demonstrate how pissed I am? **VROOOM! VROOOM! VROOOM! ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRH!** I find that, generally, a chainsaw gets their attention much quicker. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/56 "2004-06-16T01:03:08Z")
Vodka martini for me please, nubile young poolboy… **two** olives. you _do_ have nubile young poolboy’s hanging around, don’cha **swampy**? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/57 "2004-06-16T01:06:58Z")
> [@earthpuppy](#): > > Vodka martini for me please, nubile young poolboy… **two** olives. > you _do_ have nubile young poolboy’s hanging around, don’cha **swampy**? 'fraid not **earthpuppy**. Remember all my poolboy’s are burly. 😉 **Miss Kallessa**? Since it’s my sentence and stuff, does that mean I don’t gotta do the homework? ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/58 "2004-06-16T01:14:15Z")
Aw **Kallessa,** I’m just tooooooooo tired to think. I guess I’ll just have to take an incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/59 "2004-06-16T01:14:47Z")
well, then I guess when the Leesburg PoolDope rolls around, I’ll have to bring my own pool boy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-are-prejudiced-and-other-interesting-things-mmp/250268/60 "2004-06-16T01:25:37Z")
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