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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

When I was but a little kid, I once told my mother what could charitably be called a joke:
"Okay, picture a cowboy riding a horse down the road. Suddenly he hears a bang behind him. Looking back, he sees his horse's feet. 'Shoot!' he says. 'Flat hoof.'"

I had forgotten about that until I saw this post.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When I was a kid I used to think Horseshoes were actual boots that you put on horses feet, and I didn't see them on any horses in movies because the horses would fling them off at a gallop speed

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's an entertaining theory.

    I knew what they were because my dad had a horseshoe game set and I had seen something about hanging horseshoes so the luck didn't fall out, but I didn't know they were actually used with horses for an embarrassingly long time.

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