[QUOTE=elucidator]
A.E. Houseman, unless I’m very much mistaken. Shropshire Lad? Quite the nifty little rhymester, but queer as a blue horse.
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[QUOTE=Talon Karrde]
My WAG is that it comes from the King James Bible, and maybe they used that because people in England at that time understood the concept of a lord as someone you serve.
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It would have been easy enough to look it up rather than guessing.
(The corresponding passage in Luke is almost identical.)
So the King James Version has “Father” as well. Don’t you think changing “father” to “lord” would be a pretty big translation error? WhyNot has already said that she was just having a brain fart, so there’s really nothing to offer up guesses about anyway.
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
A blue horse? Not, as it happens, all that uncommon.
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On the other hand, all those horses are clearly gay, so the original saying still works.
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
A blue horse? Not, as it happens, all that uncommon.
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Those all struck me as more charcoal than blue . . . come back when you have one about the color of Superman’s tights.
Hey, does anyone ever dye their horse exotic colors?
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
Those all struck me as more charcoal than blue . . . come back when you have one about the color of Superman’s tights.
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That’s as blue as a blue roan gets, baby.
Outside of rustlers changing a gray to a bay, and the carriage horses in the Wizard of Oz, not likely. If you want flashy in a horse, though, you can get it naturally.
Want to be seeing spots?
Maybe you’d like to make a splash? Go ahead, go wild!
Or you could go for the funny face.
Just a few of the many ways a horse can stand out in a crowd.
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
:dubious:
But is he hotter than the fire of a thousand suns?
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Fire of a thousand suns? You’re the only thing hotter. [we need a drooly smiley]
Aeschines, you need a different board than the ones you’re practicing this shit on. Well, not necessarily this subject matter, all of your subject matter. You’re like the Bizzaro-SF tool.
May I humbly suggest boards that deal with self-targeting, self-immolation, self-asphyxiation? Not wishing or hoping anything, but you may finally find something positive for the human race. At least, we might.
[QUOTE=Aeschines]
I appreciate those who complimented my post on its humor…<snip>
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Cite?