Patterico's Pontifications

5/4/2005

Laura Bush Horse Joke

Filed under: Current Events,Humor — Patterico @ 8:52 pm



I haven’t opined on the Laura Bush horse joke that has gotten some conservatives so upset — but when I finally read the actual joke, I was surprised to learn how mild it really was.

If I did opine, my opinion would be very similar to that of Jeff Goldstein. Only nowhere near as funny.

7 Responses to “Laura Bush Horse Joke”

  1. It’s a scandal, I tell you! My friends on the right that have a problem with this little bit of spouse-depricating humor definitely need to lighten up. Good grief Charlie Brown!

    Laura Bush is a classy lady who was poking a little fun at her husband. I seriously doubt any such incident actually took place but I’d guess there was a “rancher’s learning curve” that this joke metephorically describes.

    Harry Arthur (40c0a6)

  2. Patterico, you’re right about Jeff Goldstein’s humor. I’m still laughing. It’s not like Laura told this joke to first graders, after all.

    Harry Arthur (40c0a6)

  3. The entire thing just emphasises how out of touch most Americans are today with rural life and rural daily experiences (tending herds, growing/harvesting food, life demands that don’t leave time nor provide utilities for a lot of internet accessible content).

    BECAUSE, the thing about the horse, the male horse, that Laura Bush said was a standard and very old timey reference to a very old timey joke shared and laughed at by most farmers, ranchers and general small town folk who are familiar with horses.

    ANYone who has ANY familiarity with MOST horses (not the kind that are manicured and tidy kept in barns that are designed by architects, wherein someone ELSE cleans, feeds and geers up your horse for you, but the kind of horse that you take care of yourself by providing them several acres, some shelter and who you know how to saddle yourself and do), anyway, ANYone with ANY familiarity with horses KNOWS that you cannot go so far as even TRY to place your hands on the thighs or stomach of a male horse without that male horse either biting you — if they’re very unfamiliar with people as some are — or mostly almost always rearing up and scaring the heck out of anyone who tries to do that before the horse then runs away. And will never come close to you again without a whole lot of time and patience involved by the offender.

    You CANNOT even GET CLOSE ENOUGH to a “male horse” to even begin to “milk” a male horse (or anything else) and THAT’s the thing that is the joke for most more rural folks (at least those familiar with horses) (versus cows) because…just try it and see how fast your rear is on the ground, a giant steed is rearing over your head and you are scared and traumatized for life.

    Close enough.

    It’s a very old joke on ranches and farms by which a generally “green hand”, foolish knowitall who actually knows nothing is referred. You can always tell a knownothing when they insist on trying to approach a male horse and then trying to…milk the wrong gender…and then watch how quickly they run when they can finally get up off the ground.

    Most people just assume the awful interpretation of that reference, that it related to George trying to interact with a male horse’s anatomy for other reasons, but it’s just an old farm/ranchers joke to describe a foolish, unskilled farmer/rancher.

    -S- (0ae3db)

  4. S, my point exactly, but better put. And I might add that anyone who’s spent any time with farm animals probably doesn’t see this as a sexual joke, rather a “city boy” joke which was as Laura intended it, I’m quite sure.

    Harry Arthur (b318a5)

  5. The President yanking on a huge horse’s dick to get out some milk is a funny image. The humor is in how Laura was able to politely put that image in your head, and that she was saying something so insulting to the President.

    Ladainian (91b3b2)

  6. Ladainian, have you ever been on a farm? That’s not the image in my head. It was a typical “city boy” joke and nothing more. Stay away from the caffein.

    There’s no insult there and it wasn’t sexual. Read S’ post again or talk to a farmer – he’ll splain it to you.

    Harry Arthur (40c0a6)

  7. CITY SICKNESS
    I’d planned comments here about the now-infamous comments by Laura Bush during her speech from last weekend before the Washington Press Club…but after so many other comments — most of them, routinely and completely irreverant and/or stupid, to be b…

    BIRD (dd7e89)


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