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horsey things you do NOT want for christmas??

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  • #81

    Thank YOU! And you know what? My favorite uncle, who passed away 2 Christmases ago, was a lifelong member of the Lions Club. So, how appropriate?

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    • #82
      SillyHorse, that must have been added just last night! Because I looked all over eBay...

      OK, people: Fess up. Which one of you put that pony-riding gnome on there??

      ***** Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is two good knees. *****
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      • #83
        Send me your Arab stuff! Especially the BLACK Arab stuff, I have a black Arabian stallion and I can't find enough with "Arabians running through fields".... Run on! Run on! Run till your heart's content!

        Can't stand getting QH/Paint/App/stock horse type stuff Any thing with a western/south western motif And PLEASE don't get me ANYTHING HOT PINK or LIME GREEN!
        \"For all those men who say, \"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free,\" here\'s an update for you: Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it\'s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.\"-

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        • #84
          <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nada Clue:Just for the fun of it, I think I'm going to put on the crazy pintaloosa indian horse shirt, my ugly cardigan with horseshoes and big silver concho buttons, and the necklace this year for Christmas dinner. Just before I open my gifts, I'll shake each box and say, "Oh, I hope it's a pony-riding gnome!"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

          ROFLMAO!!
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          You will not rise to the occasion, you will default to your level of training.

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          • #85
            OMG! You really can get anything on the internet! That is hysterical!
            If you must choose between two evils, choose the one that you've never tried before.

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            • #86
              Okay, I got the cookie jar in the shape of a Stidham horse trailer from my dad last year. I actually saw the darn thing in the Back in the Saddle catalog. Here I thought it was one of a kind(now morte because the hubby used it for target practice).
              For the biggest heart and most trying-but-failed present goes to my in-laws. They took a bus tour down to the KY Horse Park and Museum. They bought a bunch of Secretariat prints and framed them in pink matting and staing oak frames. Bless them. Yes, I have an OTTB but that doesn't mean I want him on my wall. Now they get me jewelry.
              Even duct tape can't fix stupid

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              • #87
                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CanadianGolden:
                *You mean there was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?*<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                Been reading Lamb?
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                • #88
                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Midge:
                  Been reading Lamb? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                  Sorry, I don't get it(?) The quote is from Love Actually (the charming new movie full of rather attractive British people )...hysterically funny movie. Everyone should see it.

                  =Member of the Only Child Clique=

                  *You mean there was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?*

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                  • #89
                    You're quite welcome, Merry!
                    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Beezer:
                    SillyHorse, that must have been added just last night! Because I looked all over eBay...
                    <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I am the queen of eBay browsing. If it's there, I'll find it!

                    SillyHorse
                    ~ I'm probably on John Ashcroft's enemies list. At any rate, he's on mine. ~

                    über was sprechen Sie, Willis?

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                    • #90
                      Ok, I'll play!

                      Worst was my MIL saw a photo at my mom's house of me jumping my first horse. Now, this picture was from the early 70's, so it was reeaaally dated and I was not a 'polished' rider then. Anyway-she went and had the thing blown up and LAMINATED into a set of six placemats! I couldn't invision ever having to stare at that old picture over a meal, forget about subjecting my friends! Her heart was in the right place, though and she was SO proud.

                      Biggest disappointment? My husbands ex-stepfather (can you keep up!) is a noted horse portrait painter (fabulous stuff!). He kept saying he was working on a "special' gift for our wedding present...Three years later it comes. I am SO excited-it MUST be a portrait of my horse...NOT! It's a rust monocromatic landscape-gorgeous and worth a ton, but SO not me. It's in the attic :-(
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                      • #91
                        <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Duffy:

                        But, I'm not complaining. I know she made an effort to get me something she thought I'd like. She also bought me a new pair of custom Vogels after I gave her a couple grandchildren.

                        "_B***h in training_"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                        Is that what I have to do to get my MIL to admit I have a horse? I guess it'll never happen then!

                        Seriously - once she gave me this ridiculous tiny decorative needlepoint pillow (no - she didn't make it herself) that said "Horse Lovers are Stable People". Another time, she gave me a really nice pair of deerskin SSG workgloves - that were XL! I am seriously hoping that after last years family christmas fiasco, I'm just not invited back!
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                        • #92
                          <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tomboy:
                          the t-shirts that are, well, not right to wear out in the real world. I have one i use as a stuble hint (the one that says if you want controll, buy a remote) but that is only used as needed. the other shirts, please no.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


                          I have that shirt, black, with big cartoon horse!! One of my friends was so proud that she got me something horsey, and of course it was 2 sizes too big. My parents know better than to by my anything I don't specifically ask for, although my mom really does try to buy me those ulgy running horse shirts

                          Most of my friends don't attempt the horse things unless they really know me or are horsey themselves. Although I did get this green (somekind of stone) statue of running horses for a graduation present. I'm sure it was expensive, but in the box, under my bed at home it remains, solid green horses are just a little too weird for me!

                          I can do without any more saddle pads or polos too. I will seriously hurt anyone who buys the glitery splint boots for me. (although I have considered buying the gold glitery bell boots, so when my horse looses them out in the fild they would stand out and be easy to find )

                          Best horsey gifts I recieved: from my parents- hmmmm the horse comes to mind, lol, although he was more of the "this is a present you'll be endebted to us for life for" But they did buy me a really nice tack trunk one year. A friend and her husband gave me a certificate to ship my horse to school (6 1/2 hour drive), that was probably the best gift I've gotten.

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                          • #93
                            <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> once she gave me this ridiculous tiny decorative needlepoint pillow (no - she didn't make it herself) that said "Horse Lovers are Stable People". <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                            I HAVE that pillow! And yes, it came from my MIL, who is absolutely clueless about horses!!
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                            • #94
                              ACK! My MIL gave me the ugliest gift of all. A "quillow" with a horse on it.

                              Gosh its horrible. Who the frill wants a quilt that folds into a pillow! *GAG* NOT me!
                              ~Horses lend us the wings we lack~ \"unknown\"

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                              • #95
                                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fred:
                                They do make these halters in hunter green with little gold horses - and I was thinking... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                Hey! I have that halter, or at least one that matches that description!

                                Mine is a Keiffer, and looks just lovely on my girl!

                                - Therese

                                If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now! - Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
                                - Therese

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                                • #96
                                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Therese:
                                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fred:
                                  They do make these halters in hunter green with little gold horses - and I was thinking... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                  Hey! I have that halter, or at least one that matches that description!

                                  Mine is a Keiffer, and looks just lovely on my girl!

                                  - Therese

                                  <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                  I've got a burgundy one with little silver snaffle bits. Have to say I didn't buy it (came with horse during purchase) but I actually think it's kind of cute.

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                                  Veronica: "Buy me a pony?"

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                                  • #97
                                    Man, I would be so thankful if my Mom would get me something horsey for Christmas, no matter how inappropriate or atrocious (sp?). For some reason she just can't bring herself to acknowledge that horses and riding are really a part of my life. In two years she has always asked me about my dog and cat, but never how is the horse.

                                    The worst part is when the subject gets brought up, she nudges the conversation to how my sister (doesn't ride but thinks she can) went trail riding on Crete during some trip to Europe with some guy she has not seen since!

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                                    • #98
                                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Ahem. I can find gnomes riding butterflies, snails, bunnies, turtles, reindeer, pigs, frogs, squirrels, geese, even the occasional Harley-Davidson, walnut and bulldozer.

                                      But I cannot find a pony-riding gnome!!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                      I'll be d---ed, Beezer, it is hard to find a pony-riding gnome! But I have learned that if you do a Google search on "gnome" and "pony", you get some weird returns.

                                      So here is a haiku instead:

                                      Black Arabians
                                      On poly-cotton sweatshirt
                                      Santa, I've been bad!

                                      "It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required." --Stephen Leacock, from "Literary Lapses: Reflections on Riding"
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                                      • #99
                                        The year Mr. Stasha and I got married, his mother decided to get me some "show clothes." She went to a pricey western store, and bought me (no joke) a cow-print, fake-fur vest with vinyl whipstiching on the shawl collar, and a black slinky.

                                        The cow vest never made it past the front door (on the way home, my SO said Wow, he thought HE had bad taste! and made a special trip to Goodwill.) I put the slinky to good use, though.
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                                        • #100
                                          Ever notice how horsie-stuff can be really ugly- all those browns and blacks. I have really ugly horse pillows, mugs, throw blankets, pictures galore... Please, everyone, STOP! I appreciate it, but can't I have just one pretty thing with some color in it!!!

                                          Pet peeve all all, though, for me, is the fore-mentioned calendar. Generic non-sport type horses grazing. Looking off into the horizon. Running with neck inverted, nose skyward. followed closely by statues and pictures of unicorns and carousel horses. Enough already.

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