#490 – Luck

I played horseshoes a few times as a kid but for some reason I can’t remember where. They were always rubberized and multi colored. I hope the rubber coating wasn’t meant as some sort of safety measure. There’s no way that a 1/16th inch coating of rubber was going to protect a 10 year old kid when he gets nailed in the leg by one of those. The different colors did help keeping track of who was winning.

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25 thoughts on “#490 – Luck”

  1. ¡el pingüino bilingüe¿ says:

    Yay!
    Biff getting the tar out of him is back!

  2. Ryan says:

    Oooohhhh. That looks like it’s gotta sting! Biff can’t have good insurance if all this bad stuff happens to him.

  3. Jolser says:

    I got kicked like that by a pony when I was a kid. BAM, right in the forehead.

  4. Dark Rei says:

    Biff would have to be behind the horse to have gotten a print like that…

  5. J says:

    “I got kicked like that by a pony when I was a kid. BAM, right in the forehead.”

    i’ve heard that most serial killers have suffered a childhood head injury

  6. MaskedMan says:

    I’ve been kicked, too – Caught me on the hip, spun me around, and left me standing there wondering what the hell happened. My sisters, damn their mallicious hides, laughed and applauded – They said I looked like a puppet, spinning around like that.

    Mean horse. He and I never saw eye to eye… But I watched him *much* more closely after that.

  7. insertnamehere says:

    Glad to say that I’ve never been kicked by an animal of any sort. Mind you, if biff was practicing with friends (or competing) they must’ve been horrible friends to stand by and watch biff attempt such a feat. In the meantime,

  8. insertnamehere says:

    Sorry for double post, just noticing it’s called luck and that he’ll have it, because he has a horseshoe SHAPE he found in the field that he’ll have trouble not carrying the right way.

  9. SEA says:

    Well, at least he’s alright. Right?

  10. bghvgjdh says:

    @SEA
    He’s always alright. He got his head eroded off and was fine.

  11. Spaceman Spiff says:

    When I was a kid, I was helping my dad band some calves (a humane way of steering them), and as we were getting this one calf in the chute, my dad started to talk about leaving it alone and keeping it as a breeding bull. That was when the calf obviously had a castration wish and kicked my dad in the testicles.

  12. Gobbledegook says:

    Ouch!
    … but did he win the game?

    I never got into horseshoes, mostly because I sucked at it and my brothers repeatedly used me as the target peg.

  13. OHNOComix says:

    Ah, I remember horseshoes, we allways played it at picnics and what not. Ours never had rubber coating on them, in fact they were old and rusty. I often wondered, how big would the horse have to be to fit those size horseshoes on its hoof.

  14. Seraphine says:

    being kicked by a horse
    either wakes you up or
    it leaves an impression.

  15. Daniel says:

    I believe the rubber coating is to prevent rust.

  16. steve-o says:

    @Spaceman spiff – what did your dad do to the bull, you know, AFTER the initial screaming in pain and swearing.

  17. Spoot Knight says:

    J: Great…now I have to tell my chaplain not to let me around the arms room from now on…

  18. Jolser says:

    @J- Really? Wow, I finally have an excuse!

  19. Alcadeius says:

    I was kicked by a pony when I was about 7, back of the hoof hit my lower ribcage, forward hoof caught my upper stomach, flew a few feet into an electric fence and since the wires werent really tight they kinda threw me back forward were i faceplanted into the ground. I stayed inside the rest of the day.

  20. Kbman says:

    @ Alcadeius-
    Staying inside for the rest of the day was probably a very good idea.
    If you stayed out there, something very Biff-ish would probably have happened.

    Conversely, karma would probably have dropped a very large bag of money in front of/on top of you.

  21. steve-o says:

    Except the bag of money would have ninja stars in it, except they’re boomerang stars, so they hit him, and come back and hit him again, then karma would drop a free ticket to heaven in front of you!

  22. Dannyboy says:

    The rubber coating is to keep the edges from being sharpened by wear and cutting you if it hits.

  23. Deteramot says:

    Damn it Danny. You beat me to my knowledge. I have never been kicked by an animal, unless you count a human being. I have however suffered severe frontal lobe damage. So who knows, maybe I’ll be a serial killer. If I ever get, I dunno, muscle. Also, who finds it sad that dunno is recognized by the dictionary in Firefox?

  24. Miles says:

    I was cleaning up after a horse, feeding it hay and shoveling it’s poop… and recovering froma hangover, and… woke up face down in the pen with a horseshoe shaped bruise on the back of my head.
    That’s what I get for challenging God to a fight the night before. I knew He would win, but I didn’t realize how.

  25. Marscaleb says:

    This one made me chuckle.

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