# Orgin of ...And the horse you rode in on... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 20, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orgin-of-and-the-horse-you-rode-in-on/183288 "2003-06-20T21:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orgin-of-and-the-horse-you-rode-in-on/183288/1 "2003-06-20T21:36:15Z")
I often here this on TV. Mostly it is the character reading a letter going…blah blah blah…And the horse I came in on…Then they get made. What is this? ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orgin-of-and-the-horse-you-rode-in-on/183288/2 "2003-06-20T21:57:58Z")
Well, the full phrase is “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on”. So, on TV where they can’t say “fuck”, the joke is that they’ll have the letter end with the reader partially reading the last time ("…and the horse you rode in on") with the expectation that the audience knows what came before. You see this, for example, in the Simpsons episode where Roger Myers Jr. replies to Marge’s letter. However, I don’t know when or where the full phrase originated. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orgin-of-and-the-horse-you-rode-in-on/183288/3 "2003-06-21T00:29:09Z")
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