# When I write "horsehead bookends", what comes to mind automatically for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679 "2016-07-11T19:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/1 "2016-07-11T19:26:04Z")
Vote first, then reveal the spoilers. For a small percentage of you, I predict you’ll think of a specific movie immediately. If you don’t, then you obviously have never seen said movie, otherwise it would have been an instant thought in your mind as soon as you heard that phrase. In other words, this poll is basically “Have you seen the movie Student Bodies?” written in an evasive way. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/2 "2016-07-11T19:41:29Z")
I think of a set of bookends with horseheads ‘carved’ into them…like [this](http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dU0AAMXQEgpTEeAJ/s-l640.jpg). I had some almost identical to these on a bookshelf in my room when I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/3 "2016-07-11T19:54:06Z")
Student bodies. Sex kills. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/4 "2016-07-11T19:54:44Z")
I had a set of wooden horsehead bookends. And my answer to your spoilered questions is “nope.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/5 "2016-07-11T20:18:30Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > If you don’t, then you obviously have never seen said movie, otherwise it would have been an instant thought in your mind as soon as you heard that phrase.[/spoiler] > In other words, this poll is basically “Have you seen the movie Student Bodies?” written in an evasive way. And I thought first of the film The Godfather, even though the horsehead wasn’t used as a bookend. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/6 "2016-07-11T20:41:59Z")
First bookends, then The Godfather. Never seen or heard of your spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/7 "2016-07-11T20:54:32Z")
I haven’t read the responses, but I would’ve picked all of the above, had that been a choice. A movie? So, I would’ve gone one and two. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/8 "2016-07-11T21:29:07Z")
Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don’t need to fight To prove I’m right I don’t need to be forgiven Don’t cry, don’t raise your eye It’s only horsehead bookend ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/9 "2016-07-11T21:34:04Z")
I’m the ONLY person that thought of horses! I had horses forever and am nuts about them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/10 "2016-07-11T21:52:28Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I think of a set of bookends with horseheads ‘carved’ into them…like [this](http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dU0AAMXQEgpTEeAJ/s-l640.jpg). > > I had some almost identical to these on a bookshelf in my room when I was growing up. > [@raventhief](#): > > I had a set of wooden horsehead bookends. And my answer to your spoilered questions is “nope.” I’ve seen those, don’t recall where, but that’s what I thought of too. I think they were somewhat common back when people pretended to read books. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/11 "2016-07-11T21:52:46Z")
yep, movie. used to see every horror/slasher movie that came out. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/12 "2016-07-11T22:03:48Z")
We had some ugly-ass glass horsehead bookends in the house when I was a kid, so that’s my go-to. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/13 "2016-07-11T23:49:27Z")
Hehe, I was just thinking of Student Bodies on my way to work today…and no, i have no idea why. “All these stairs…I wish someone would kill the kid with the gum!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/14 "2016-07-11T23:50:29Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Student bodies. Sex kills. With running body count! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/15 "2016-07-11T23:54:06Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I think of a set of bookends with horseheads ‘carved’ into them…like [this](http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dU0AAMXQEgpTEeAJ/s-l640.jpg). . . . This. I have zero knowledge of the material in the spoiler boxes. Never heard of it in my whole life. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/16 "2016-07-11T23:58:25Z")
Knights, from Chess. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/17 "2016-07-12T00:17:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > With running body count! And directed by Alan Smithee, so you know it was quality! ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/18 "2016-07-12T00:28:39Z")
I think of bookends. Specifically the ones my mom used to have - ceramic, dating from the 30s. Closest thing I can find to them in a quick google is [this.](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Set-of-2-Lightly-Distressed-Ceramic-Horse-Head-Bookends/49480956?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=237&adid=22222222227037058440&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=84056711914&wl4=pla-187535063314&wl5=9031256&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=109572406&wl11=online&wl12=49480956&wl13=&veh=sem) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/19 "2016-07-12T00:37:16Z")
I’ve seen that movie, but obviously I’ve forgotten everything about it (other than the gratuitous swear). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679/20 "2016-07-12T01:05:20Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Knights, from Chess. This, hold up very tiny books. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-write-horsehead-bookends-what-comes-to-mind-automatically-for-you/759679.md?page=2)