more mr. nice guy: oh wow you went through a whole desert and your horse doesn't even have a name.. hey quick question, where do you think horse names come from

oh wow you went through a whole desert and your horse doesn't even have a name.. hey quick question, where do you think horse names come from

In my experience, from my 8 y.o niece

eight year olds have no more power than that which you grant them

My mom has the horses and Ellie rides them more than anyone else, so she named the last 2 foals that were born. One of them was named Koja(c)k because mama was Jackie and my mom had been watching the Telly Savalas show with her grandkids

telly would've loved that

I tried to get another foal named Columbo, but no dice

can't help but be reminded of: bsky.app/profile/juni...

my parents have a lot of funny little stories but my favorite is when they asked their neighbor's kid, Davin, where his name comes from and he asks "well you know that actor Davin McGavin?" and my mom says "you mean Darren McGavin?" and he says, yep

Hey it’s distracting, the desert. There were plants and birds. Also rocks and things

Sand and hills? And rings?

ADHD anthem

As he's immediately distracted by a fly with a buzz? I can see it (Not that America is one of my favorite bands or anything, uh, no, LOOK I WAS A WEIRD TEENAGER, OKAY)

Ventura Highway is a banger they’re cool

Also props for The Last Unicorn!

One of the best things about being an adult is I no longer love that band.

Congratulations?

the heat was hot

My mind boggles every time I think of that line

Wait until you hear about the soil conditions in this desert.... dry

WHAT

Y'all can all go right to hell. That song's catchy and shame on y'all for tryin' to ruin it for me.

No, it's catchy, but it's impossible to pretend that the lyrics aren't *beyond* stupid

do you even take your horse out of the rain bro

Is... Is it the desert?

this is what you sound like right now

Ok, so not the desert then *crosses desert off list of places to get horse names

now you sound like this guy

Are we sure the horse has no name, or is it the narrator? "I rode through the desert, On a horse with no name" vs "I rode through the desert on a horse, With no name"

I rode through the desert with no name on a horse.

Horse names come from temperate rainforests.

No, the narrator has no name.

Horse names come from a riverbed out of the rain.

Did you have to do that, I'll never be able to listen to that again, without thinking about this. It's like when someone told me the revised words "sitting on the cock of the gay". Instead of "sitting on the dock of the bay". Stop it! Running away screaming Ahhhhhhh....

Horse with no mane might have been more interesting.

In the desert, you can’t remember your name, guess it doesn’t matter what the name

heroin

It's one of those generic supermarket horses.

It was good to get out of the rain tho

(I read “dessert” and wondered where you were going with this.)

Where ever the Wildfires are now

well at least it wasn't raining

I have to assume either (a) the horse was named Paul Revere and omitting the horse's name is an attempt to avoid law enforcement, or (b) the horse was actually a fae that did not want to give up its true name.

As a kid hearing this on the radio, I used to think the line was "on a horse with no legs" which struck me as a disturbing paradox, and it stayed with me. When I found out as a teen it was actually "no name" I was like "oh well that's not too bad then" and stopped wondering about the song anymore

In that situation, I would have to call him "Wilson."

I always thought it was originally the horse belonging to Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollars and it was part of the bit - his version of the Batmobile

The Trotmobile!

Well he had no time to name the horse on the first part of the journey when he was busy looking at plants and birds and rocks and things

Perhaps it’s dependent on punctuation and it’s actually the desert that was unnamed. I rode through a desert — on a horse — with no name. ie I rode on a horse, through a desert with no name.

Well done.

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