Sheriff Owl Riding Horse

Too silly not to share.

How Many Ways to Say "To Be or Not To Be"

Oh my gosh, this is hysterical. How many ways can you interpret a Hamlet soliloquy?

Let It Snow Star Trek Style

This is laugh out loud if you are a Star Trek fan.

Hancock's 50 Facts on Icelandic Sheep

Icelandic sheep  Photo: Wikipedia

I keep finding some absolutely fascinating, almost crazy, information about Iceland, its horses, and other inhabitants. Edward Hancock has the same disease, er interest. He published his research on Icelandic sheep on his Blog Iceland Defrosted. Here are some of the 50 facts he discovered.

"#1. Sheep have a lot of very important business in the middle of roads. You will often see them having meetings. @CatTheobald

#2. Icelandic sheep have radars in their horns so they know exactly when to run in front of your car.

#14. Icelandic Sheep favour Twitter over Facebook, due to the confusion around facial recognition.

#15. Icelandic sheep have lead sheep called forystufe, who can operate GPS, and know the farmers phone number by heart.

#46. When transported out of Iceland, Icelandic sheep retain their accents. "

You can check out his web site for the rest of his crazy facts about Icelandic sheep

https://icelanddefrosted.com/50-crazy-facts-about-icelandic-sheep/.

Get One of World's Most Handsome Men to Promote Icelandic HorseIC HORSE BREED

This all started with Conan O’Brien. Put Conan next to a horse and instant hilarity results. Previous Conan videos feature him dressed as Fabio riding Martha Stewart’s Friesian and starting a race at the Santa Anita track by calling “It’s a pony party.” So when I found a video of Senor F. (reason for alias will shortly become apparent) teaching Conan to play polo, I thought I had won a Trifecta which I could share with my Facebook friends.

At one point in the video, Senor F. asks Conan if he would like to wear a safety helmet. To me the polo helmet has an attractive masculine vibe. It looks like a pith helmet and a football helmet mated while everybody was distracted by the running of the Kentucky Derby. Conan has a different view, “I want to look cool. That is more important than safety.” Upon seeing himself in the polo helmet, he swore “I would rather be killed.” OK, I admit I laughed out loud at his dead pan delivery--as I did multiple times during this video. But research shows that falling off a horse without a helmet is equivalent in force to being hit by a car. If you wear a helmet during a fall, you are five times less likely to have a traumatic brain injury.

I decided not to share that video but I thought all my Facebook friends deserved the opportunity to admire Senor F., whose appearance, frankly, took my breath away. And his equitation skills are world class. Since some of my friends have played around with my Goodwill, bargain polo mallets and my Icelandic horse Blessi, I decided to share that anecdote with a video of Senor F. explaining how to play polo. He promotes polo as a sport that riders can enjoy at multiple levels of expertise. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1901 to 1909, agreed, “Polo is a good game, infinitely better for vigorous men than football or golf.” Theodore wrote multiple letters discussing the bitting and conditioning of his polo pony named, believe it or not, Pickles.

Truly it is not part of my public persona to burble, rhapsodize, or rave over the appearance of actors, models, and athletes. OK, that is a lie. I do gush and swoon in my own thoughts. And my girlfriends and I may choose to discuss over glasses of wine the aesthetics of male physiognomy in the film we just viewed. Fortuitously I chose to describe Senor F. as follows: Per a Vanity Fair poll, “X was rated the second most handsome man in the world several years ago---behind Robert Pattinson but ahead of Brad Pitt. Oh, he rides a horse beautifully also.” OK, I gushed via proxy.

So I posted on Facebook and shut down the computer for the night. When I checked Facebook the next morning, Senior F. had not only liked my posting but, much to my surprise, shared it on his Facebook page along with other postings about his family and personal accomplishments. (Senor F. seems like a very nice guy who just happens to be drop dead gorgeous.) And to my utter amazement, his fans shared my posting 14 times--modest exposure for the Icelandic breed in Facebook terms but huge in my personal Facebook attempts.

Face it Blessi, I am not certain that many readers noticed your cute photo or even your breed while
distracted by the sight of Senor F. To me you have the coloring of Robert Redford during his younger years, the poise of Cary Grant, the athletic ability of Tom Cruise, the humor of John Cleese, and the rugged good looks of Harrison Ford. If I only had the riding ability of Senor F, we could make beautiful, classic, MGM dancing movies together. As it is, I limit us to screwball comedies. So I will continue to gush frequently and in public over you.

Conan Learns to Play Polo

Conan learns to play polo from one of the top players in the world, Nacho Figueras.  The video is hysterically funny but I don't support the not wearing helmets because it makes me look stupid remark.  Anyway, this video is the start of a series of posts of "How to inadvertently get one of the world's most handsome men to do promotion for the Icelandic horse."

Viking Reenactment Humor

For all of you Vikings at heart, here is a tour of a reenactment encampment in Trondheim. Lots of great historical touches and some crazy humor. Are you sick and tired of having your ax stuck in the bodies of your enemies? Be sure and watch at minute 2:04 for Honest Ulf's solution.

Creating the Neohippus Breed

A North Dakota breeder Jill Langford is creating a controversial new breed called Neohippus, an attempt to breed back to an early horse ancestor called the New Dawn horse, the one with two extra toes behind the fetlock.

Ms. Langford was starting up a pony rescue when she adopted a stud colt named Bubba. “He was some kind of pony cross,” Langford said. “I’m pretty sure there was some POA in him, maybe something gaited and hairy, like an Icelandic. He would be really spooky one day, and the next he’d think he was king of the mountain and try to take you down. One thing for sure is that he was a mean little guy! We called him Beelzebub, or Bubba for short.” Bubba also has 2 extra toes on each fetlock and managed to breed every mare on the farm. After careful cross selection with other primitive pony breeds such as the Tarpan and the Exmoor, there are now 300 registered horses in this rare registry.

PLEASE EXAMINE THE DATE THIS WAS POSTED--There is something about the first of April you should consider.

http://www.horsenation.com/2016/04/01/lets-discuss-controversial-new-breed-echoes-prehistory/

How Portland Welcomes Snow

Here's how the Unipiper celebrates the first snow of winter in the Pacific Northwest.  Perhaps there is a reason for the quirky TV show Portlandia.

Prance Armstrong The Pony in the 2017 Tour de Polagne

A pony decided to join a cycling race in the 2017 Tour de Polagne. The plucky pony was a real Prance Armstrong.

How to Trailer a "Bad" Pony

This is so funny. It's all about the food.

The Loneliest Pony

Blessi needs one of these.

Adfele's Hello with Horses

Equestrians have an over the top passionate connection with their horses--assuming not being able to catch your horse in the pasture is a reason for a break up song.  Here to prove it is Kelly Jewell singing a brilliant parody of Adele's Hello.

Advice to a Younger Horse

Horse Collaborative has a wonderful series of entertaining videos.  What kind of advice would an older horse give to a colt?

If Horses Used an Electronic Dating Service

What would happen if horses made their own dating videos for Equine Harmony?

How to Motivate Blessi to Exercise

Maymo the dog likes carrots almost as much as Blessi.  If I could just design this a little bigger and put it in a round pen......

What is the Market for Horse Pants

In this video, Jimmy Kimmel makes a pitch to the Shark Tank folks for a new business idea.  My favorite style is Spanx since, let's face it, Icelandics sometimes need a bit of fluff control.  In fact, Blessi and I could wear matching Spanx.

Blessi Has a Question

A horse walks into a police station and....

This is not the start of a bad joke.....Early one morning a horse walked into the Cheshire Constabulary Headquarters in Winsford, England. As he walked through the automatic doors, the horse startled an officer.  A policeman escorted the horse back to his field located across from the police station.  "Police Superintendent Peter Crowcroft released this statement: "We were somewhat saddled with our unexpected guest, who in the early hours of the morning quickly became the mane event of the night shift. ... At neigh point did the horse pose a risk to security."

Perhaps this horse, like Blessi, was just looking for some doughnuts.
Source:http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/security-cameras-capture-horse-walking-into-police-station-193826853.html

Cinderfellow

Jessy was bathing her year-old stallion Blue, who is exceedingly well behaved.  She spends a lot of time working with him.  Jessy dropped the sponge on the floor and Cinderfellow, er Blue decided to scrub the floor.  I wonder if Blue would like to come to my house and clean the kitchen floor.