#1063 – Stop
Posted on July 8, 2010 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I remember having a lot of fun the first time I went horseback riding. I started freaking out though when we started down a trail that was right on the edge of a steep drop off. “Why are they letting someone walk on the edge of a cliff 15 minutes into the first time they’ve ever been on a horse!” Then it gradually dawned on me that the horse comes down this trail everyday and it knew how to not kill itself while on an afternoon stroll. I was the horse’s guest, not it’s master.
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There’s a great sermon illustration in there, if that’s your bent …
“I was the horse’s guest, not it’s master.”
Wisdom. 🙂
A lot of the really serious (read as ‘Schutzhund’) dog trainers use German for the command language. I work with dogs a lot, so have learned most of the common commands. Then I met a man with a dog trained in Welsh. Needless to say, the dog and I confused the hell out of each other.
I praticularly loved your blog post XD
Took me a while to get the comic but once Id id it was funny 😀
Ah, trail-riding with the nice placid horse that knows the way…
…then it walks into a gate and gets all confused. It thinks you are going to get down and open this gate. When you don’t, poor thing gets so confused it just kind of stands there.
And then you have to get down and go and get the trainer and tell her what happened and change horses and you get the nice skittish one that goes nuts when a gate closes a bit too loudly…
I have terrible luck with horses.
*does not get it*
I’ve actually had good horse-riding experiences, except for the part where the horse decided it was time to evacuate the bowels.
@Cyndaquazy;
That’s why you stand near the end that eats when you’re not riding it. 😛
The first time I was on an actual horse trail, my horse lagged behind all the others, dragged me under a mesquite tree (which, if you weren’t aware, have many large sharp thorns in their branches) that none of the other horses saw fit to walk under, and at the near end of the trail, just decided to stop. I sat on that vindictive bugger for twenty minutes in the Texas heat because I was too afraid he would try and kick me to death if I got off his back.
I hope they made him into glue and dog food.
I also do not get it 🙁 Someone please explain to us humor-challenged folks…
@calliopejane biff said a command to the french horse and the horse was confused and dumped biff off the edge do you understand that
@grapy Actually I dont think its so much that he dumped biff as much as it simply didnt understand the command “Stop”
You would think horses would know the trails after going over them again and again. Last year I went on the horse trail and haven’t rode a horse since I was a child. The people leading us was yelling at me because I couldn’t keep my horse on the trail and he kept stopping to eat. I would never trust a horse that he wouldn’t just walk off the cliff.
BTW, we’re ALWAYS the horse’s guest. Anybody who thinks he can be the “master” of a half-ton of muscles is just delusional 😀
ah, OK, I just figured that there must be more to it, since the horse has clearly committed suicide! As noted, horses aren’t THAT stupid. So I thought there was some implied dig at the French there.
Lesson learned: do not overthink a Biff comic.
Chris, My first time horseback riding, the horse in front of me got angry and kicked, scaring my horse over the edge of a hill leading to a steep cliff. miraculously Both myself and the horse were unharmed. but the horse got up and ran back up the hill, and I was still in an overly confused state of “what just happened” and so when my parents called out to see if I was ok, my first reaction was to ask where my shoes went. When I finally got back up, I was convinced I was going to Walk back, eventually they convinced me to get back on the horse. But I’m not Going horseback riding anywhere near someplace steep again… if I go horseback riding ever again.
@MaskedMan – Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg. Dw i’n byw yn Nghymru. Dw i ddim yn hoffi Cymru, ond dw i’n hoffi Lloegr. Ces i fy ngeni yn Lloegr.*
Bwahahahaha, who on earth let BIFF near a hors- oh…. wait… he probably got it in a cereal box… silly me.
*This is Welsh. I shall now proceed to translate this. Do not attempt to use a translator, as Welsh is a very jumbled up lingo, and it willn’t** translate properly:
It says: “I am learning Welsh. I live in Wales.I don’t like Wales, but I like England. I was born in England.”
**willn’t – short for will not. What is Won’t supposed to mean? Wo not? I think not. So, WILLN’T IT IS!
NOTE:
Do not attempt to read that Welsh either. Dd is the, Nghymru is Cymru mutated, and Ll…. I don’t even know how to write that in English…
Chcchchcchclll – it is like sticking the end of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and yawning while saying cl… v. confusing…