# How many squirrels does it take to make a horse?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 11, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-squirrels-does-it-take-to-make-a-horse/75837 "2001-08-11T19:51:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-squirrels-does-it-take-to-make-a-horse/75837/21 "2001-08-12T17:42:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NutWrench \*  
> Tree hugging little slackers . . .
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Yeah, you’ve got a point there. Thank goodness for Count Volta!

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-squirrels-does-it-take-to-make-a-horse/75837/22 "2001-08-12T18:57:31Z")

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Squirrels in welding masks, arc torches blazing. Squirrels with rivet guns, hammering away. Dozens of squirrels swarming over an equine-shaped construction frame. Red-hot molten metal being poured.  
70’s TV theme in the background.

Bum-Ba-bum Da Bum-Ba-Bum Da BRUMMM-pap-pa-pa-Pa-RUM…

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We can make the world’s first Bionic Horse. Trigger will be that horse. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.”–Oscar Goldsquirrel.

😃

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**Author:** ![murphydog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@murphydog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murphydog)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-squirrels-does-it-take-to-make-a-horse/75837/23 "2001-08-12T20:18:06Z")

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squirrels are dirty

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-squirrels-does-it-take-to-make-a-horse/75837/24 "2001-08-12T20:49:06Z")

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What, they read nasty magazienes, make rude remarks at parties?

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