April 21st, 2008
#490 - Luck
I played horseshoes a few times as a kid but for some reason I can’t remember where. They were always rubberized and multi colored. I hope the rubber coating wasn’t meant as some sort of safety measure. There’s no way that a 1/16th inch coating of rubber was going to protect a 10 year old kid when he gets nailed in the leg by one of those. The different colors did help keeping track of who was winning.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:09 am
Yay!
Biff getting the tar out of him is back!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:09 am
Oooohhhh. That looks like it’s gotta sting! Biff can’t have good insurance if all this bad stuff happens to him.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
I got kicked like that by a pony when I was a kid. BAM, right in the forehead.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Biff would have to be behind the horse to have gotten a print like that…
April 21st, 2008 at 1:09 am
“I got kicked like that by a pony when I was a kid. BAM, right in the forehead.”
i’ve heard that most serial killers have suffered a childhood head injury
April 21st, 2008 at 1:52 am
I’ve been kicked, too - Caught me on the hip, spun me around, and left me standing there wondering what the hell happened. My sisters, damn their mallicious hides, laughed and applauded - They said I looked like a puppet, spinning around like that.
Mean horse. He and I never saw eye to eye… But I watched him *much* more closely after that.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:16 am
Glad to say that I’ve never been kicked by an animal of any sort. Mind you, if biff was practicing with friends (or competing) they must’ve been horrible friends to stand by and watch biff attempt such a feat. In the meantime,
April 21st, 2008 at 3:17 am
Sorry for double post, just noticing it’s called luck and that he’ll have it, because he has a horseshoe SHAPE he found in the field that he’ll have trouble not carrying the right way.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:17 am
Well, at least he’s alright. Right?
April 21st, 2008 at 6:38 am
@SEA
He’s always alright. He got his head eroded off and was fine.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
When I was a kid, I was helping my dad band some calves (a humane way of steering them), and as we were getting this one calf in the chute, my dad started to talk about leaving it alone and keeping it as a breeding bull. That was when the calf obviously had a castration wish and kicked my dad in the testicles.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:20 am
Ouch!
… but did he win the game?
I never got into horseshoes, mostly because I sucked at it and my brothers repeatedly used me as the target peg.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:37 am
Ah, I remember horseshoes, we allways played it at picnics and what not. Ours never had rubber coating on them, in fact they were old and rusty. I often wondered, how big would the horse have to be to fit those size horseshoes on its hoof.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
being kicked by a horse
either wakes you up or
it leaves an impression.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I believe the rubber coating is to prevent rust.
April 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
@Spaceman spiff - what did your dad do to the bull, you know, AFTER the initial screaming in pain and swearing.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 am
J: Great…now I have to tell my chaplain not to let me around the arms room from now on…
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
@J- Really? Wow, I finally have an excuse!
April 25th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I was kicked by a pony when I was about 7, back of the hoof hit my lower ribcage, forward hoof caught my upper stomach, flew a few feet into an electric fence and since the wires werent really tight they kinda threw me back forward were i faceplanted into the ground. I stayed inside the rest of the day.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:39 am
@ Alcadeius-
Staying inside for the rest of the day was probably a very good idea.
If you stayed out there, something very Biff-ish would probably have happened.
Conversely, karma would probably have dropped a very large bag of money in front of/on top of you.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Except the bag of money would have ninja stars in it, except they’re boomerang stars, so they hit him, and come back and hit him again, then karma would drop a free ticket to heaven in front of you!
April 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
The rubber coating is to keep the edges from being sharpened by wear and cutting you if it hits.