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TGIFfunnies 9/8/23 EDITION: Laugh, Love, Play

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 year, 2 months ago to Humor
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. . . and leave a lasting Impression. RIP Jimmy Buffett

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 2 months ago
    A moving horse can walk, trot, canter and gallop. Anyone know if I left something out? I've been writing an action something with a lot of horses being rode.
    Speaking of horses, isn't that little pickup in Meme #5 top, oh, so adorable. There's a place I drive by to check on two mama horses who each take care of a baby in pastures that has three other horses, a barn and stables and stuff. Those colts are growing up incredibly fast.
    Nice to know how to mess up "BLACK LIVES MATTER" graphite, though I've never seen any in the Birmingham area. Hope it ain't racist to say I much more prefer green olives.
    Me dino thought that patient all those surgeons lost is pretty funny.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 1 year, 2 months ago
      There's also the pace, which is like the trot, except that the two legs moving forward at the same time are on the same side, rather than the diagonal. Some breeds have a four-beat gait that's like a walk, except much faster. The rack, the slow gait, the running walk and the Icelandic tölt are some of them. These gaits are generally known as ambling, and can be a lot more comfortable to ride than the trot, which can be quite jarring and hard on the human nethers.

      The trot is probably the most efficient gait, and is excellent for a driving horse, where the jarring of its vertical aspect is not transmitted to the human.

      The astute observer will notice that the horses in the cartoon have forelegs that serve as arms, and are thus wholly incapable of most equine gaits.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 2 months ago
        Thanks big time. I have a book entitled "Trick and Fancy Riding" but I do not recall reading anything about 'the pace.'
        I'm writing down all these various trots down to look them up later.
        BTW, non-primate cartoon animals with hands go way, way back well before Bugs Bunny began to HAND Elmer Fudd smoking sticks on dynamite.
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    • Posted by katrinam41 1 year, 2 months ago
      There are variations on those gaits, like the running walk bred into Tennessee Walkers and the rack, done by the American Saddlebred, but those gaits don't usually appear in a story :).
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 2 months ago
        The trick riding protagonist is of a French family who moved to Belgium and they raise horses. The year is 1914.
        Elsewhere in France her eldest brother part in a French cavalry in which gaits are called out leading up to a charge against the German invasion. Keeping that simple.
        The trick riding protagonist uses different gaits for different stunts but I'm trying to keep that simple too. She was inspired by lady riders doing circus stunts when she was a little girl.
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        • Posted by katrinam41 1 year, 2 months ago
          It sounds like a good plot. If she's a trick rider, she needs a steady gait, nothing fancy. Practice, practice, practice, until she and her mount are of one mind, one reflex, one entity.
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  • Posted by Woodsteach 1 year, 2 months ago
    9 is great... As a shop teacher I still teach that original cordless drill and a brace with a screwdriver bit as the original cordless driver.

    Thanks for posting the memes!!!
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    • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 2 months ago
      They work quite well. I have a few different sizes in my workshop mainly just on the wall as antiques, but I do use them on occasion. One big one has a shoulder butt like a rifle butt for drilling large holes in fence posts, etc.- I'm guessing it was made in the late 19th or early 20th century. I also have a set of gimlets that work well for drilling small holes. No electricity required, LOL.
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    • Posted by $ johnrobert2 1 year, 2 months ago
      As a collector of vintage tools, I can boast I can sharpen and SET sawteeth, including crosscuts. I have several sets of braces and bits; box planes; handsaws, including crosscuts of various sizes and lengths; a single bit, double bit and a broad ax. I am ready for when the grid goes down. Oh, yes. I also have one of those.
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 1 year, 2 months ago
    OUC, you outdid yourself this time! Fluffy cows, Baby trucks, Driving a stick, and Goth vs Hippie all made me LOL.

    And very sad to hear of Jimmy Buffet's death ... he had a way of putting life in perspective.
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