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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:19 PM
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There should be a rule that anyone riding a horse in a parade should be at the very end
There's a very good reason why it should be
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:21 PM
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1. Always was that way when I was a kid
But I have noticed a special patrol after the equestrians.
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:21 PM
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2. They usually have satchels on the horse to catch the poop
the roads should be clear.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 07:17 PM
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19. I thought Satchel was a pitcher?
:shrug:
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:21 PM
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3. oh hell -- what are you griping about?
It's ORGANIC! :rofl:
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:23 PM
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6. Sure it is...
But would you want any of that organia all over your shiny new boots?
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:24 PM
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7. road apples.
:silly:
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:22 PM
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4. As a former marching band member, I wholeheartedly agree.
Because playing an instrument, trying to stay in step, and maintaining formation is hard enough without having to look out for horse poop. x(
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:27 PM
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12. This old clarinet player remembers well -- between horse apples and potholes, I swallowed
the top third of my clarinet more than a few times.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:56 PM
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15. Ouch.
I played flute, so I didn't have to worry about that so much...but I was also the front right guide, which meant I had to watch out for the drum majors, too. Good times, man...good times. :hi:
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:22 PM
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5. They often put - um - horsie diapers on them
to catch things.

http://www.bunbag.com/
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:24 PM
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8. LOL! Yep, they sure should, but they never doo do.
Worse, someone always says they should be at the back, but they are NEVER at the rear.
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islandmkl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:25 PM
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9. nah...they just need to make sure they have 'pooper scoopers' behind every horse section...
i used to own some bars, and we were always the hit of the HUGE St. Patrick's Day parades with our street-cleaning act...

used a beat-up, tempura-painted (green, of course), p.o.s.'58 Cadillac coupe to pull a little trailer with 5-gallon buckets (for the horse stuff)...we had a ball...had a couple of the buckets full of wadded-up brown paper which we would occasionally throw 'Globetrotter'-style into the crowd...
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Buck Laser Donating Member (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:26 PM
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10. As an old country boy, I can say definitively that
stepping on horse apples is a whole lot better that stepping in cow flop. Or chicken shit.
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 06:21 PM
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16. Horse people wipe dog feces off their boots in the horse manure pile.
If you're going to have shit horse shit is about as mild as it gets.

Chicken dung--now that's nasty.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:27 PM
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11. or in front of Bush
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:27 PM
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13. Oh, Jeez... More horses
Anyone behind them has my sypathies
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 05:36 PM
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14. Those horses were probably appointed by *.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 06:46 PM
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17. I heard it was John Tester and Brian Switzer
Not sure how you spell Switzer's last name, the Governor of Montana. It was on MSNBC.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 06:53 PM
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18. I've ridden in parades that had horses at the end and parades that had pooper scoopers to follow
Organized pooper scoopers worked better. The first parade I rode in had the horses at the end. The cops, who were bored, decided to "speed things up" so they turned on their sirens. We nearly had a stampede through the rest of the parade. Oh, that parade had no poop pick up at all - the horse apples were just left on the road all through downtown so business people were tracking stuff into the shops and courthouse for a few days.

As one reply below indicated, the pooper scooper squads can be entertainment in themselves - though that really does not fit the dignity of a presidential inauguration parade.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 07:21 PM
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20. Secret Service guys in clown suits pushing wheelbarrows?
Now THAT I'd pay money for. :D
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 10:04 PM
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26. Shoulda made Shrub follow with a shovel - Cheney could have a powered chair with a little wagon!
THAT I'd pay money for! :evilgrin:
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 07:47 PM
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21. Organized pooper scoopers?
That's what Democrats are. Only we always follow the ELEPHANTS in the parade!

(I use the term "organized" very loosely.)

:kick:
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 10:03 PM
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25. I've seen parades where there were "clowns" following the horses with shovels
Or some other gag costumed people picking up.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 07:48 PM
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22. why do you hate Santa?
you want him pooped on?
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foxfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 08:06 PM
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23. A least nobody was riding a dinosaur in this parade.
Unlike 2005. . .
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 08:24 PM
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24. Behind each of the horse groups, they had people with huge pooper scoopers to
clean up possible messes. lol!
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 10:06 PM
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27. The metaphor for today is self evident
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