Tiny horse runs amok

Tiny horse joyfully runs free, evading all attempts to capture it.

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I love that there’s only like 2-3 people chasing it. The rest of them are just doing their thing…
Zaren

#16:

*ooouph!*

One of my favorite movie bits ever.
cory

#2 dammit read my mind
racer x

Do you know they now train miniature horses to be guides for the blind? I accidentally came across a website for tee-tiny sneakers for them.

http://www.guidehorse.com/sneakers_horses.htm
dbarak

How many horsepower is that thing?
Anonymous

Where’s the Purina Chuck Wagon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BBqgMQluDM

:)
vib

A free horse in a cage.
eosjack

Awww. Lil guy is celebrating the passing of California Prop. 2.
CaseyScott123

Miniature horses built the pyramids?
Phikus

I might be movin’ to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss
Raisin’ it up
Waxin’ it down
In a little white box that I can sell uptown

By myself, I wouldn’t have no boss
‘Cause I’d be raisin’ my lonely dental floss
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss

Well I just might grow me some bees
But I’d leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else…
But then, on the other hand I might
Keep the wax
N’ melt it down
Pluck some floss
N’ swish it aroun’

And I’d have me a crop
An’ it’d be on top (that’s why I’m movin’ to Montana)

Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon (yes I am)
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a mental-toss flycoon
(whatever that is)
Oh lookout!

I’m pluckin’ the ol’ dental floss
That’s growin’ on the prairie
Pluckin’ the floss!
I plucked all day an’ all night an’ all
Afternoon…

Oh I’m ridin’ a small tiny hoss
(His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
He’s a good hoss
Even though he’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or blanket on anyway
He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or blanket on anyway
But anyway…

I’m pluckin’ the ol’ dental floss
Even if you think it is a little silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks

I’m gonna find me a horse
Just about this big
An’ ride that sucker all along the borderline
With a pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
Every other wrangler would say
I was mighty grand
But by myself I wouldn’t have no boss
‘Cause I’d be raisin’ my lonely dental floss

Raisin’ my lonely dental floss
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss

Well I might ride along the border
With my tweezers gleamin’ in the moon-lighty night
And then I’d get a cuppa coffee
N’ give my foot a push…
Just me ‘n the pygmy pony
Over by the dental floss bush

And then I might just jump back on
An’ ride like a cowboy (dipshit)
Into the dawn to Montana

Movin’ to Montana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
Movin’ to Montana soon…
lava

amok |É™ËˆmÉ™k; É™ËˆmÃ¤k| (also amuck)
adverb (in phrase run amok)
behave uncontrollably and disruptively

hmmm, I don’t know. I think the horse is doing ok in the uncontrollably part, but Failing in the disruptive part. I just don’t think this qualifies as amok. Maybe if he knocked over a couple of those other handlers, and got a few other ponys running around he’d have his disruption cred.

So in closing I’ll give that horse a decent frenzy, but no amok.
w000t

pork musket
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i_prefer_yeti

That sounds like a job for Whiplash!
minTphresh

phike, it’s ” dennil floss” other than that…pure win! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVD_766yxBo
Sean Grimm

Simply put, we do some weird and needless stuff to animals. That tiny horse is expressing his rage and mockery of the entire tiny horse and animal breeding industry. Inside his tiny horse brain he is chanting, “Att-ic-a! Att-ic-a! Att-ic-a!” as he rounds the dirt prison desperately trying to inspire his other miniature brethren to rally. Run little horsey, run for all of us.
Blaine

#8

If I were forced to listen to progressive rock, use buckets for shoes and speak only in adverbs while being cattle-prodded I’d run away too.

Now that we’re both done talking about things that would make us personally run away… I’m guessing you’re commenting on why the horse was running.

For all you know, the horse’s owners gently massage it’s hooves as he sits on a 1,000 thread count pillow, leisurely eating steel cut oats flown in fresh daily.

I mean… it’s a horse show. They probably treat the animals the same way the dog owners from dog shows treat their pets… which is to say, better than anyone of us has been treated by another human being.

You really think they have him pulling the worlds tiniest plow in the worlds tiniest field to grow the worlds tiniest corn?
mdh

You really think they have him pulling the worlds tiniest plow in the worlds tiniest field to grow the worlds tiniest corn?

No, but I really want to believe it. I also want him to take kittens on hayrides.
Lilith999

Adorable!

For all of your monkey on horse cravings, may I present Steve Martin’s rendition of Marty Robbins’ El Paso:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCP3wKTajsU

Steve Martin opens the video riding in on a tiny horse and there are several monkeys on tiny horses (and donkeys?) around the 3:15 mark. There’s some great moments involving an elephant too.
bazza

its seems a bit like a genetic oddity to me – and i can’t help but feel sorry for it in the same way i felt sorry for the elephant man….
Sijay

Bad Horse! He’s bad!
Blaine

No, but I really want to believe it. I also want him to take kittens on hayrides.

That’s demented…. wait did you say “kittens on hayrides”??

I’m sorry, no that is cute.

For a second there I though you said “Draw and quarter Gummi Bears”.
debg

Bad Horse! He’s bad!

The thoroughbred of sin, Sijay.
Sekino

My entire childhood: “I wanna’ horse!”

From this moment on: “I wanna’ mini mini mini horse!!!”
Phikus

Minty: Well, I was going from memory, adding bits from live versions Frank performed (but not varying as widely as he often did. Ever heard the “Whipping Post” version?) =D
ZippySpincycle

This is just a single golden horn short of being a literal unicorn chaser.
pork musket

Oh how I want a tiny horse, and a monkey to ride it.
minTphresh

phikus, got 3 diff versions on my h.d. did u like the evil roy slade? gr8 film.
Takuan

sigh, the sheer incompetence of it all; no day-glo vests, insufficient manpower, no mini-horss-poking-poles, no badminton netting…
Deleet

I feel like this is a covert attempt at a miniature unicorn chaser…..
dsac86

If I was being exploited for entertainment and financial gain, and faced constant whips throughout my life, I would probably try to escape as well.
mdh

For a second there I though you said “Draw and quarter Gummi Bears”.

I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats…
Agent 86

…minutes later, the tiny little horsie was turned into 3 bottles of Elmer’s School glue.
Phikus

Minty: Yeah. I especially liked the line: “Sorry I was late. I kinda dragged my heels.” Haw haw.

I think my fave Montana is from YCDTOSA#4 where he says “An’ ride like a dipshit into the dawn to Montana…” but the “Whipping Post” version from YCDTOSA#2 is so wonderfully deviated:

“Get a person…
And tie them up…
And beat the living shout out of them until that guy in the audience is satisfied!

But by myself I wouldn’t have no boss…”

Man, I miss Frank…

BTW, (getting even more totally off topic) I’ve asked Antinous to put us in touch. I think you’ll really like this Floyd boot I mentioned in another thread where they perform the Atom Heart Mother Suite in its entirety. Awesome quality too. I’ll mail it your way if you pass along your address. =D
mdh

It wants the yakkity sax (a.k.a. the benny hill effect)
SirCrumpet

@MDH Arrghh.. Beaten to it by a second. It realy doesn’t feel complete without Yakkity-Sax, does it?
katkins

I so wanted to find something great by Fred Willard to say here:

‘I don’t think I could ever get used to being poked and prodded like that. I told my proctologist one time, “Why don’t you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?” ‘

You’d run around like crazy too, without your busy bee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYLTqJMxmTY
minTphresh

we r lucky here in t-pa to have an excellent tribute band called ” bogus pomp” i met the lead guitarist a few times as he was a great friend of our guit player. every year,including last friday, we have ‘zappaween’. this year with ike willis and napoleon murphy brock “flies all green and buzzin’, in him’s dungeon of dispair” . so much awesomesauce! this year was my 7th. back in ’99 they did a night with frank zappa /bogus pomp with the fla. symphony orchestra, doing two of his orchestral pieces. started off with just the guitar player, then the orchestra came out and played for about an hour doing one piece. then the band came out after a brief intermission and played with the orchestra for about anhour. then they all took bows then bogus pomp came out and did zoot allures and peaches en regalia. amazing. check ‘em out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–TEKwSUQBQ
thermidorthelobster

I was waiting to see if its little ear fell off as they tackled it to the ground.
bugmaker

It’s definitely panicking because of the Peruvian cover of the Carpenter’s “On Top of the World”. I ran around the living room in a similar fashion until this video ended.
mdh

It realy doesn’t feel complete without Yakkity-Sax, does it?

I’m still humming it to myself.
Phikus

Minty: Yeah, the guitarist from my band (in hiatus) is from Gainesville and he used to sing their praises. Did you catch Dweezil on tour (Zappa plays Zappa)? He played like 4 hours here in Austin and Ray White was with the band. I have a boot of that too if you’re interested. =D
mrong

I have one of these things, it’s gotten loose a few times, each time I’ve given up and just waited for him to get hungry and come looking for food. Now I tie him to a cinder block and move him around my yard, haven’t mowed the grass in four months. Between this guy and my goats I have the best manicured lawn ever, except for all the poop, but you get used to that.
i_prefer_yeti

A monkey with a lasso would have this filly tied up quick-right in a minute.
jakemayer

what that horse video needs is a unicorn horn added on!
Cupcake Faerie

Where was its tiny little rider? Probably smoking a tiny little cigarette…
Chairboy

Amuck! Amuck! Amuck! Amuck!
minTphresh

hells yeah! i was unfortunately short of funds when dweez blew thru town. my friend slosh said that it was an amazing show. teresa’s got my email add so…. teereeesa, if phikus asks, would you please give him my email, if its not too much of an inconvenience. pretty please! u have my permission. there u have it!
RedShirt77

Run Pony Run.

that horse is a maverick.
Santa’s Knee

My Blue Heeler would go NUTS with this!
Phikus

Lilith999: Nice vintage Steve Martin clip!