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Horse Laugh!!!!

bubbuh — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:31:01 GMT

Horses are sensitive, poetic creatures. It's inevitable that humans respond to them similarly.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

janeslogin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:24:08 GMT

I would suggest that if you really want to research a phrase go to one of these sites: wordwizard.com wordorigins.org phrases.org wordsmith.org and worldwidewords.org. If they don't know you will have a tough time finding it anytime soon.

Well......

JakesDad — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:59:15 GMT

Personally, I say it is because I'm hung like one.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

DavidSess — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:29:57 GMT

Still my favorite explanation for this whole business, offered by an equine science professor who thought the phrase was "poetic." Unfortunately it had to be cut from the Explainer, but I loved it.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

bubbuh — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:18:42 GMT

An echoic of the passed.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

Beaujoe — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:10:48 GMT

DavidSess:

My personal opinion: people say they need to “piss like a racehorse” because of the way it sounds: the endings of “piss,” “race,” and “horse” make a string of consonance that sounds urgent, distressed, and sort of like the hissing stream they’re about let loose.

A "stream of consonance" phrase, you might say.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

Gthestranger — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:21:55 GMT

I guess it’s just something you always remember….My first kiss…..The day my child was born……That time I had to piss like a racehorse so bad I though my bladder would explode.

Ahhh memories.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

DavidSess — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:11:42 GMT

Haha, that's amazing. And proof of the way this phrase is culturally engrained...

Re: I'm interested in the array...

powerteen — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:42:34 GMT

This was better than the article!

Re: I'm interested in the array...

bubbuh — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:14:58 GMT

Think FS can't get us the Hebrew low down on that?

Re: I'm interested in the array...

Thomas Paine — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:22:44 GMT

Or to go back somewhat further yet -- 2 Kings 18:27 (KJV) "...that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss...."

Re: I'm interested in the array...

sunsetkeyman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:50:54 GMT

Pissing's been around a lot longer than horsey drug testing. so, has people's willingness to include it in conversation.

"I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation." - Shakespeare, "The Tempest, 4. 1"

"The Crystal Eye, alas, was miss'd; And Puss had on her Plumpers piss'd. A Pigeon pick'd her Issue-Peas; And Shock her Tresses fill'd with Fleas." - Swift, "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed"

Every academic pissant knows that.

Re: I'm interested in the array...

longpond69 — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:58:57 GMT

I wrote a longer entry in another thread responding to this article, butI think the ra===I think the "race" part of racehorse has to do with drug testing that takes pace at tracks during competition. Immediately after each race, the winning horse and one other selected at random report to the judges' barn and are required to submit a sample.

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

bubbuh — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:40 GMT

This thread's beginning to to look like it belongs on "Faith Based."

Re: Piss Like A Racehorse

Gthestranger — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:26:56 GMT

Tested.

If it was tasted it would have had to have been Oh-de-toilet and racey ho's, not the other way around.