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C&CDean
3/21/2006, 02:50 PM
So boys and girls, I got to spend this early morning out in frigid winds disposing of the remains of Shorty, our handsome 17-hands tall gelding.

We came home last night and Shorty was laying down beside the hay feeder, with Ruby (the mare) standing over him. I didn't really think much of it - until my wife goes "Shorty is still laying down" and it was about 30 minutes later. So, I go down there, and sure enough, ol' Shorty is stiff as a board, eyes open, gazing skyward into the blustery/rainy skies.

I go "damn Shorty, you picked a ****ty day to die boy. You rest easy right here, and I'll take care of you in the morning." So, this morning I go down and thought I'd just pick ol' Shorty up with the hay lift on the back of my truck. Wrong. That horse weighs in the neighborhood of 1500 pounds. It took all I had to lift his head high enough to get a chain around his neck.

So, instead of getting carried off into the sunset on a flatbed hearse, ol' Shorty had to get drug 2 miles behind the tractor around back to his final resting place. A depression inside a creek channel where an old bridge used to be. I said a few words over Shorty's carcass - something like "happy trails big guy, now there's gonna be a lot less **** to shovel" and rolled him in with the front end loader.

Of course Ruby was not happy and wouldn't leave Shorty's side, so before I could take Shorty around back, I had to drag him ceremoniously through the corral so I could catch her. She wouldn't let me pet her, feed her, or anything. Ol' girl is missing her boy.

Anyhow, I get back on the tractor, start for the house, and there's already about 4-5 buzzards circling overhead. I smiled, and thought "what a system God has created. In a couple weeks, Shorty's bones will be scattered around by the packrats, a buttload of coyotes, coons, buzzards, crows, possums, skunks, ants, and flies will have fattened themselves up, and another big ol' horse will be born somewhere. And wherever it is, he ain't coming to my place. Galdamned hayburners eat more than 3 cows do.

RIP Shorty boy.

picasso
3/21/2006, 02:53 PM
Shorty is now running in fields of heather.

God bless Shorty.

Harry Beanbag
3/21/2006, 02:54 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world? Dude lives life the way it should be lived.

NormanPride
3/21/2006, 02:55 PM
That's sad. :(

So you're not going to get another to keep Ruby company? Or do horses do well by themselves?

Jimminy Crimson
3/21/2006, 02:55 PM
RIP Shorty :(

Beef
3/21/2006, 02:56 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world? Dude lives life the way it should be lived.
I'm man enough to admit that I wouldn't last a day in Dean's world.

Mjcpr
3/21/2006, 02:57 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world? Dude lives life the way it should be lived.

No.

Mjcpr
3/21/2006, 02:57 PM
http://www.cinema.com/image_lib/getshortyDVD.jpg

jk the sooner fan
3/21/2006, 02:58 PM
so horses have emotions but not dogs....

hmm, anyway....sad deal Dean, how old was Shorty?

OU4LIFE
3/21/2006, 03:00 PM
This is why I don't own horses.

they die.

colleyvillesooner
3/21/2006, 03:01 PM
I'm man enough to admit that I wouldn't last a day in Dean's world.

Sadly, ditto.

RIP shorty.

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/21/2006, 03:01 PM
:meat:




OKAY! I'm sorry! RIP, Shorty...

OU Adonis
3/21/2006, 03:01 PM
Totally thought this thread was about something else.

Jimminy Crimson
3/21/2006, 03:02 PM
Dean, why do you hate starving American tourists in asia? :D

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:04 PM
so horses have emotions but not dogs....

hmm, anyway....sad deal Dean, how old was Shorty?

Huh? I get all mushy like that when I bury the dogs too.

And Shorty was only about 14 or so. Way too young to die. He's always pulling the empty cattle feed sacks off the flatbed and chewing on them. This past weekend, I had picked up some broken glass, cans, trash, etc. down on the road and threw it on the truck. There were feed sacks up there too. I'm thinking he probably ingested some glass or a piece of baling wire or something.

So truth be told, some POS litterbug killed him.

mdklatt
3/21/2006, 03:07 PM
"happy trails big guy, now there's gonna be a lot less **** to shovel"

I think I want this on my tombstone. *SNIFF*

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/21/2006, 03:09 PM
Huh? I get all mushy like that when I bury the dogs too.

And Shorty was only about 14 or so. Way too young to die. He's always pulling the empty cattle feed sacks off the flatbed and chewing on them. This past weekend, I had picked up some broken glass, cans, trash, etc. down on the road and threw it on the truck. There were feed sacks up there too. I'm thinking he probably ingested some glass or a piece of baling wire or something.

So truth be told, some POS litterbug killed him.

Okay, serious question:

Do you have some kind of insurance for crap like that? I mean, what if you pay a brazillion dollars for a horse and someone kills it like that? I'm thinking horses are esspensive...

Sooner Born Sooner Bred
3/21/2006, 03:13 PM
RIP Shorty.

Ruby needs a new man.

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 03:13 PM
Here I thought this thread was going to be about some sex escapades that Dean had recently. :texan:






PS - sorry about Shorty Dean. I wonder why they don't come up with some fancy name like gelding for dogs that have been neutered?

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:13 PM
Okay, serious question:

Do you have some kind of insurance for crap like that? I mean, what if you pay a brazillion dollars for a horse and someone kills it like that? I'm thinking horses are esspensive...

If I was one of those whack-job horse people who own $100K trailers - and then have to buy $4 bales of hay from me on credit, I'd shoot myself - and own insurance on the horses. Those people would have had the vet come out and perform an autopsy, had him cremated, paid a bunch of $$ for a headstone, and buried at the pet cemetery.

I'm in the cow business. Horses are for play. Anybody wanna buy a saddle and some tack?

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 03:15 PM
Okay, serious question:

Do you have some kind of insurance for crap like that? I mean, what if you pay a brazillion dollars for a horse and someone kills it like that? I'm thinking horses are esspensive...


Horses are esspensive. My motto - don't invest in anything that eats. If it eats, it purely an expense, not an investment. Not saying Dean was investing, but to your point about them being expensive, the investment horses are expensive and they die, shoot blanks, aren't interested, don't run well, .... all things which turn an investment into nothing more than cordavan leather and food for the french.

jk the sooner fan
3/21/2006, 03:16 PM
whats the life expectancy of a horse?

my comment on emotions stems from a thread we had where you said that dogs cant express emotion (like happiness) because they dont have them...so when you said that horse "missed her boy"......just confused me is all

;)

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:18 PM
I said "dogs don't display human emotions."

And some horses live to their 30's.

Newbomb Turk
3/21/2006, 03:19 PM
so is "17-hands tall" really short or really tall for a horse?

Sorry about Shorty, but your stories sure are...well...interesting.

royalfan5
3/21/2006, 03:23 PM
Your tractor and loader weren't big enough to lift the horse?

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/21/2006, 03:24 PM
How long were Shorty and Ruby together?

jk the sooner fan
3/21/2006, 03:26 PM
I said "dogs don't display human emotions."

And some horses live to their 30's.

right, exactly......i would say that "missing somebody" is a human emotion

anyway, i was just giving you ****

30's....wow, i didnt know that

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 03:28 PM
How long were Shorty and Ruby together?


About 32 hands. :texan:

picasso
3/21/2006, 03:30 PM
Totally thought this thread was about something else.
your love life?

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:30 PM
Dang y'all, that's a lot of questions.

17-hands is huge for a horse. Hence the name "Shorty." He's quarter-horse/percheron mix. Perch's are big.

Yes, my tractor and loader are big enough lift-wise, only he was too damned long to get in the bucket. I was by myself, otherwise I would have put another chain around him and lifted him with the hooks on my loader bucket. Seriously, his damned head weighed 200 pounds.

Ruby and Shorty have been together their entire lives. Ruby has always been the alpha, and she has always been very protective of Shorty. I seriously wouldn't be surprised to go home this evening and find Ruby belly-up.

OU Adonis
3/21/2006, 03:31 PM
Not that I know much about horses, but for some reason 17 hands sounds about right or a bit on the tall side.

Am I right Dean?

*edit* dean answered right when I posted.

Isn't like 14 1/2 hands about average?

OU Adonis
3/21/2006, 03:32 PM
your love life?


They didn't call me tic tac in high school for nothin'

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 03:32 PM
I seriously wouldn't be surprised to go home this evening and find Ruby belly-up.


You are talking about a horse aren't you? :texan:

Mjcpr
3/21/2006, 03:33 PM
RIP Shorty.

Ruby needs a new man.

You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be...
Oh Ruby I still need some company.

Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed
And THE WANTS AND the needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize,
But it won't be long i've heard them say until I'M not around
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

She's leavin' now 'cause I heard the slammin' of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
Oh Ruby
God sakeS turn around

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:35 PM
It was only a matter of time........

Hamhock
3/21/2006, 03:36 PM
Make his life count for something!!

Get a 22-250, spotlight, and have some fun with the yotes.

TUSooner
3/21/2006, 03:38 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world?
Frankly, yes. Next time I head to the God's Favorite State I plan on looking him up to see if he'll hire me for a week (room & board would be plenty; and I ain't skeered of work, nosirree.)


Dean - I think you got the makings of a fine cowboy poet. But I think cowboy poems - unlike city poems - are still exected to rhyme occasionally. Real nice story, though.

Soonerbabeinbama
3/21/2006, 03:42 PM
awwwww - I hate that part where Shorty gets drug two miles behind the tractor and drug around the corral before he can be buried. Poor ole Shorty. Like death isn't bad enough and then he's got to get drug all the hell over the place. I know - you gotta do what you've gotta do. I feel bad about Shorty Dean. I love my animals too. Hurts like crazy when you lose one. My condolences.

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 03:47 PM
Frankly, yes. Next time I head to the God's Favorite State I plan on looking him up to see if he'll hire me for a week (room & board would be plenty; and I ain't skeered of work, nosirree.)


Dean - I think you got the makings of a fine cowboy poet. But I think cowboy poems - unlike city poems - are still exected to rhyme occasionally. Real nice story, though.

Consider yourself hired.

No three-piece lawyerin' suits,
fresh cow **** on your boots,
dust and grit in your mouth,
a hot wind from the south,
blisters, callouses, the smell of salt and sweat,
you feel like you've been ridden hard, and put away wet.

It just don't get any better than this.........

KABOOKIE
3/21/2006, 03:50 PM
It ain't the horse that's esspensive...........

TUSooner
3/21/2006, 03:52 PM
Consider yourself hired.

No three-piece lawyerin' suits,
fresh cow **** on your boots,
dust and grit in your mouth,
a hot wind from the south,
blisters, callouses, the smell of salt and sweat,
you feel like you've been ridden hard, and put away wet.

It just don't get any better than this.........

Now that is a poem.

FYI, though: I only own one suit (that fits :rolleyes: ) - it's for funerals, weddings, and when we go visit the judges.

OU4LIFE
3/21/2006, 03:55 PM
Consider yourself hired.

No three-piece lawyerin' suits,
fresh cow **** on your boots,
dust and grit in your mouth,
a hot wind from the south,
blisters, callouses, the smell of salt and sweat,
you feel like you've been ridden hard, and put away wet.

It just don't get any better than this.........

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Taxman71
3/21/2006, 03:56 PM
On an unrelated note, I just used some Elmer's glue.

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 03:56 PM
Damn, Sorry about the horse buddy....

One less haybale to toss though and living on the farm brings us all closer to the cycle of life....

Harry Beanbag
3/21/2006, 03:57 PM
Anybody seen that movie Envy with Ben Stiller, Christopher Walken, and Jack Black? This thread reminds me of the dead horse scenes.

mdklatt
3/21/2006, 03:58 PM
Anybody seen that movie Envy with Ben Stiller, Christopher Walken, and Jack Black? This thread reminds me of the dead horse scenes.

Corky!

Hamhock
3/21/2006, 04:00 PM
Didn't a dude in Fletch go to jail for carnal knowledge of a dead horse?

salth2o
3/21/2006, 04:02 PM
Consider yourself hired.

No three-piece lawyerin' suits,
fresh cow **** on your boots,
dust and grit in your mouth,
a hot wind from the south,
blisters, callouses, the smell of salt and sweat,
you feel like you've been ridden hard, and put away wet.

It just don't get any better than this.........

That's Baxter Black quality poetry there Deano.

Taxman71
3/21/2006, 04:06 PM
Dragging Shorty 2 miles does seem crude. Perhaps you could have called this guy:

http://www.tigersweat.com/images/anim07.jpg

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 04:06 PM
Some pics of Shorty, Ruby, and the family.

[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/90fafe2e65c5523ab63258b06df9a704/shorty1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/ca8c60316e379bcdd0f92b5aebd46993/shortyjay1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/203ab67fdd660b79939d1c0d29bc9050/shortyRIP.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/158d60e31a206a59073ea153f5bf6da7/family1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/b15f3db696869e0668935e09596160a5/shortyruby1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 04:07 PM
OK. Maybe not.

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 04:08 PM
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/b15f3db696869e0668935e09596160a5/tshortyruby1.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com/photo/view.php?img=b15f3db696869e0668935e09596160a5)

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 04:08 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world? Dude lives life the way it should be lived.


I spent the first 21 years of my life in Dean's world. I gotta say, there are pros and cons to every way of life. That's why I did everything I could to do to live somewhere else after I left college. I wouldn't mind having some property in the future, but it sure is nice to have less stuff to maintain.

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 04:08 PM
I thought of Dean being Achilles and Shorty being Paris when he was talking about dragging him off.

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 04:08 PM
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/70defb8ca91fafeac0e54fb614449286/tshorty1.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com/photo/view.php?img=70defb8ca91fafeac0e54fb614449286)

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 04:10 PM
Some pics of Shorty, Ruby, and the family.

[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/90fafe2e65c5523ab63258b06df9a704/shorty1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/ca8c60316e379bcdd0f92b5aebd46993/shortyjay1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/203ab67fdd660b79939d1c0d29bc9050/shortyRIP.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/158d60e31a206a59073ea153f5bf6da7/family1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)
[img=http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/b15f3db696869e0668935e09596160a5/shortyruby1.JPG] (http://www.ecloner.com)

eclowned:eddie:

KABOOKIE
3/21/2006, 04:10 PM
Ruby's in pain. Do the right thing and use the .30-06

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 04:14 PM
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/cbfe7f10890d198eb3f3812622e1b47b/shortyRIP.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com)
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/aff42c128b605dc42e193739fbc3c742/family1.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com)
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/49936c4f9f53e0efcc8e06869c2cf6ac/shortyjay1.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com)

salth2o
3/21/2006, 04:18 PM
Legacy of the Rodeo Man
by Baxter Black

There's a hundred years of history and a hundred before that
All gathered in the thinkin' goin' on beneath his hat.
And back behind his eyeballs and pumpin' through his veins
Is the ghost of every cowboy that ever held the reins.

Every coil in his lasso's been thrown a million times
His quiet concentration's been distilled through ancient minds.
It's evolution workin' when the silver scratches hide
And a ghostly cowboy chorus fills his head and says, "Let's ride."

The famous and the rowdy, the savage and the sane
The bluebloods and the hotbloods and the corriente strain
All knew his mother's mothers or was his daddy's kin
'Til he's nearly purely cowboy, born to ride and bred to win.

He's got Buffalo Bill Cody and Goodnight's jigger boss
And all the brave blue soldiers that General Custer lost
The ghost of Pancho Villa, Sittin' Bull and Jessie James
All gathered by his campfire keepin' score and takin' names.

There's every Royal Mountie that ever got his man
And every day-work cowboy that ever made a hand
Each man that's rode before him, yup, every mother's son
Is in his corner, rootin', when he nods to make his run.

Freckles Brown might pull his bull rope, Casey Tibbs might jerk the flank,
Bill Picket might be hazin' when he starts to turn the crank.
Plus Remington and Russell lookin' down his buckhorn sight
All watchin' through the window of this cowboy's eyes tonight.

And standin' in the catch pen or in chute number nine
Is the offspring of a mountain that's come down from olden time
A volcano waitin' quiet, 'til they climb upon his back
Rumblin' like the engine of a freight train on the track.

A cross between a she bear and a bad four wheel drive
With the fury of an eagle when it makes a power dive
A snake who's lost its caution or a badger gone berserk
He's a screamin', stompin', clawin', rabid, mad dog piece o' work.

From the rollers in his nostrils to the foam upon his lips
From the hooves as hard as granite to the horns with dagger tips
From the flat black starin' shark's eye that's the mirror of his soul
Shines the challenge to each cowboy like the devil callin' roll

In the seconds that tick slowly 'til he climbs upon his back
Each rider faces down the fear that makes his mouth go slack
And cuts his guts to ribbons and gives his tongue a coat
He swallows back the panic gorge that's risin' in his throat.

The smell of hot blue copper fills the air around his head
Then a single, solid, shiver shakes away the doubt and dread
The cold flame burns within him 'til his skin's as cold as ice
And the dues he paid to get here are worth every sacrifice

All the miles spent sleepy drivin', all the money down the drain
All the "if I's" and the "nearly's," all the bandages and pain
All the female tears left dryin', all the fever and the fight
Are just a small downpayment on the ride he makes tonight.

And his pardner in this madness that the cowboys call a game
Is a ton of buckin' thunder bent on provin' why he came
But the cowboy never wavers he intends to do his best
And of that widow maker he expects of him no less.

There's a solemn silent moment that every rider knows
When time stops on a heartbeat like the earth itself was froze
Then all the ancient instinct fills the space between his ears
"Til the whispers of his phantoms are the only thing he hears

When you get down to the cuttin' and the leather touches hide
And there's nothin' left to think about, he nods and says, "Outside!"
Then frozen for an instant against the open gate
Is hist'ry turned to flesh and blood, a warrior incarnate.

And while they pose like statues in that flicker of an eye
There's somethin' almost sacred, you can see it if you try.
It's guts and love and glory- - one mortal's chance at fame
His legacy is rodeo and cowboy is his name.

"Turn 'im out"

proud gonzo
3/21/2006, 04:21 PM
Huh? I get all mushy like that when I bury the dogs too.


That was you being all mushy? thanks for pointing it out--I don't think I would have caught on otherwise ;)

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/21/2006, 04:25 PM
You don't realize how big that horse is until you see his head next to an actual person.

Dang.

Taxman71
3/21/2006, 04:30 PM
You don't realize how big that horse is until you see his head next to an actual person.

Dang.

Too....easy.....must......resist......

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 04:32 PM
Dean doesn't your son want to be a vet? Which one is he in the pics?

TUSooner
3/21/2006, 04:36 PM
I thought of Dean being Achilles and Shorty being Hector when he was talking about dragging him off.

Fixed, but I had to look it up, so spek to you for even remembering the episode from the Trojan War.

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:04 PM
Dean doesn't your son want to be a vet? Which one is he in the pics?

The one on the far left. He's just working too much right now in the well pump business to go to school.

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 05:14 PM
The one on the far left. He's just working too much right now in the well pump business to go to school.

Good, hope he's making lots of money. Let me know if he ever decides to pursue the Vet career though.

JohnnyMack
3/21/2006, 05:15 PM
Who's the homo with the pink hat on?

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:16 PM
HAHAHAHAHA, Dean has a pink hat!!!!!!

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:17 PM
The two board fags noticed the pink hat. Let me put on my "surprised" face.

It ain't pink, it's red. It's an OU hat that's probably older than you two chumps put together. It's got character.

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 05:22 PM
Hard work and sweat makes a hat's color fade, of course why should we try to explain that to them....;)

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:23 PM
Hard work and sweat makes a hat's color fade, of course why should we try to explain that to them....;)

I've heard ****ing on your hat makes it fade too.

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 05:26 PM
I've heard ****ing on your hat makes it fade too.

Is that ****ing or ****ing?

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:27 PM
Hard work and sweat makes a hat's color fade, of course why should we try to explain that to them....;)

where the hell have you been when CVS, Stan, JM and those other clowns were making fun of my faded red hat?:mad:

Dead.
To.
Me.
:D

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:29 PM
It ain't pink, it's red. It's an OU hat that's probably older than you two chumps put together. It's got character.

Character = Lid appeal?

who knew?

:dean: <---------- pink hat



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 05:30 PM
where the hell have you been when CVS, Stan, JM and those other clowns were making fun of my ****ed on red hat?:mad:

Dead.
To.
Me.
:D

I was on here laughing my arse off.......:D

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:33 PM
I never knew that homosexuals were also colorblind.

colleyvillesooner
3/21/2006, 05:33 PM
where the hell have you been when CVS, Stan, JM and those other clowns were making fun of my faded red hat?:mad:

Dead.
To.
Me.
:D

Dude, Dean's hat has character and is a faded red.

Yours, well, is just a gay *** pink hat. Sorry. Them's the brakes :D

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:36 PM
I never knew that homosexuals were also colorblind.

that's why you thought your hat was red, apparently

:dean: <--------- pink hat and designer sunglasses

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

proud gonzo
3/21/2006, 05:36 PM
http://files.redvsblue.com/web/images/store/shirts/lightishred_large.jpg
:D

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:37 PM
I think PG just called Dean a **** gobbler :D

proud gonzo
3/21/2006, 05:38 PM
that shirt is an item from Rooster Teeth Productions :chicken:

NormanPride
3/21/2006, 05:39 PM
I think PG just called Dean a **** gobbler :D

I didn't get it until you said it. :D I was like, "Rooster teeth? What?"

EDIT: PG proves that I was right, yet not as funny as 1TC.

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:40 PM
that's why you thought your hat was red, apparently

:dean: <--------- pink hat and designer sunglasses

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

1. I don't own a pink hat. However, if I did, I'm certainly comfortable enough with my pecker size to wear it.

2. Those would be Gargoyle sunglasses. Hardly "designer."

3. Anybody owning a white polyester couch that is obviously a gift from the Queer Eye producer/director has no room to talk about anyone elses "designer" accessories.

4. Real men play a 4-string bass.

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:40 PM
sing along folks:

Dean wears his sunglasses at Angles, so he can so he can see.

mdklatt
3/21/2006, 05:40 PM
:chicken: :les:

Oldnslo
3/21/2006, 05:44 PM
http://www.ecloner.com/photo/img/cbfe7f10890d198eb3f3812622e1b47b/shortyRIP.JPG (http://www.ecloner.com)

Why the long face?

Sorry, Dean. Losing a horse, dragging it around the countryside and then watching buzzards eat the flesh succs. Or, at least I guess it would, anyway. Um.

Carry on.

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:44 PM
1. I don't own a pink hat. However, if I did, I'm certainly comfortable enough with my pecker size to wear it.

2. Those would be Gargoyle sunglasses. Hardly "designer."

3. Anybody owning a white polyester couch that is obviously a gift from the Queer Eye producer/director has no room to talk about anyone elses "designer" accessories.

4. Real men play a 4-string bass.

1. With that pink hat of yours you don't seem to be the only male that is comfortable with your weenis size. Just sayin'
2. Sure whatever.
3. That mofo is 100% leather and it's dove gray (that's a ghey color isn't it?:O )
4. HA, I broke the 5th so I play it with 4 now!!!

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 05:46 PM
A funeral for a horse thread gets turned into a gay lovin' thread in less than 3 hours. I wonder what took so long?

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 05:47 PM
sorry deano.

Mjcpr
3/21/2006, 06:02 PM
Sorry, Dean. Losing a horse, dragging it around the countryside and then watching buzzards eat the flesh succs.

It's a cliche' because it's true!!

mdklatt
3/21/2006, 06:19 PM
That mofo is 100% leather and it's dove gray (that's a ghey color isn't it?:O )


Any color with a qualifier other than "dark" or "light" is probably ghey.


gray = not ghey
dove gray = :chicken: :les:

C&CDean
3/21/2006, 06:20 PM
Especially when you sit on it and play "When Doves Cry" with your brokeback - er - brokestring bass.

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 06:26 PM
Especially when you sit on it and play "When Doves Cry" with your brokeback - er - brokestring bass.

:les: THAT SONG IS A PANTYDROPPER!

colleyvillesooner
3/21/2006, 06:29 PM
:les: THAT SONG IS A PANTYDROPPER!

Doesn't count if you are wearing them, jackhole. ;)

BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 06:29 PM
A funeral for a horse thread gets turned into a gay lovin' thread in less than 3 hours. I wonder what took so long?


I noticed that the board was a bit slow today. I'm sure tomorrow the threads will turn gay in their usual amount of time, about 5 minutes.

Al Gore
3/21/2006, 07:05 PM
Does anybody else wish they could spend just a week in Dean's world? Dude lives life the way it should be lived.I left that life when I left my parent's home......NO I DON'T!!!!!!

LilSooner
3/21/2006, 07:24 PM
Dean I'm so sorry to hear about your horse. We lost one a few years back that was 37 years old. My mom had him since she was 16. First horse I ever rode. So hard to see him go. We've got four more I can't imagine losing them.

1stTimeCaller
3/21/2006, 07:26 PM
Hey Dean, have you checked with Czar to see if VK was driving around last night?

mdklatt
3/21/2006, 07:27 PM
Hey Dean, have you checked with Czar to see if VK was driving around last night?

Yes, this is excellent, this idea.

IB4OU2
3/21/2006, 07:42 PM
Yes, this is excellent, this idea.

Yea, I'm sure cute little VK zips around Deans pasture in her Grand Cherokee every monday afternoon.........:D

BudSooner
3/21/2006, 09:46 PM
TU I helped a friend clean out his horses stalls...lemme tell ya, cleaning out them was damned hard work as was loading hay on a trailer(about 200 bales give or take)on a hotter than hell summer day and then unloading it later that evening.

But I would do it again in a heartbeat if he asked me again.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 09:13 AM
Yea, I'm sure cute little VK zips around Deans crib in her underoos every monday afternoon.........:D

Well, yeah.

IB4OU2
3/22/2006, 09:26 AM
Well, yeah.

Pics?..........

TUSooner
3/22/2006, 09:30 AM
TU I helped a friend clean out his horses stalls...lemme tell ya, cleaning out them was damned hard work as was loading hay on a trailer(about 200 bales give or take)on a hotter than hell summer day and then unloading it later that evening.

But I would do it again in a heartbeat if he asked me again.

I can relate to the hay loading thing, it was one of the best days I ever spent; of course I was YOUNG then. :rolleyes:

Norm In Norman
3/22/2006, 11:05 AM
On one hand, I hate it for Dean (and the horse) that he died. I love animals. On the other hand, picturing Dean dragging a dead horse around behind his tractor is quite humorous.

Damn.

Norm In Norman
3/22/2006, 11:05 AM
Now i feel guilty for posting that.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 11:12 AM
And you should.

Norm In Norman
3/22/2006, 11:31 AM
I think the way you described dragging a horse around in such an unemotional way is what did it. I really feel bad for you having to do that. I'd probably bawl like a little girl and call you up to drag my horse around. Ok, I probably would have went the "I'd shoot myself..." route.

If you were draggin the neighbor's horse around though, it would be funny as ****.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 11:45 AM
Actually, it was fairly non-emotional. I've drug many, many dead elk, deer, calves, etc. through the woods so it wasn't like it was new or anything. My wife freaked cause dirt was going up his nose, his lips were being pulled back, etc., but I just said "he's dead, he doesn't feel it."

Rolling him into the ditch and looking down on his final resting place did cause me to stop for a second of quiet reflection though. Then I saw the buzzards, and it was all good. Part of the plan. The beautiful plan. My heart was pretty light driving back up to the house.

BeetDigger
3/22/2006, 11:54 AM
I don't think people really understand how heavy these animals are until you have a dead lump and you have to dispose of it. Horses, cattle - both can be awkward as hell if you don't have the right equipment to handle them. Hot days are worse since you only have a couple of days to get rid of them before they really begin to stink.

Back when I was baling and stacking hay, why couldn't I have found people who thought that stacking bales was fun? I know that we would have been more than happy to invite people over for some real fun manual labor. Free beer and steak afterward too. Owning a farm is satifying, but I don't remember it being fun work.

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/22/2006, 11:55 AM
Actually, it was fairly non-emotional. I've drug many, many dead elk, deer, calves, etc. through the woods so it wasn't like it was new or anything. My wife freaked cause dirt was going up his nose, his lips were being pulled back, etc., but I just said "he's dead, he doesn't feel it."

Rolling him into the ditch and looking down on his final resting place did cause me to stop for a second of quiet reflection though. Then I saw the buzzards, and it was all good. Part of the plan. The beautiful plan. My heart was pretty light driving back up to the house.

I was okay until this post.

Now I am sad for Shorty's muddy lips.

:(

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 11:58 AM
I don't think people really understand how heavy these animals are until you have a dead lump and you have to dispose of it. Horses, cattle - both can be awkward as hell if you don't have the right equipment to handle them. Hot days are worse since you only have a couple of days to get rid of them before they really begin to stink.

Back when I was baling and stacking hay, why couldn't I have found people who thought that stacking bales was fun? I know that we would have been more than happy to invite people over for some real fun manual labor. Free beer and steak afterward too. Owning a farm is satifying, but I don't remember it being fun work.

I have to admit that I enjoy the work. Yes, it's sometimes brutal, but I always feel so much more "fullfilled" at the end of the day. If I ever spend a day lazing around the house, I feel pretty much worthless.

Stacking hay is a suck job though. I don't mind the weight, it's the damned wire cutting into your fingers that I hate. That's why I pretty much only bale round bales now.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 11:58 AM
I was okay until this post.

Now I am sad for Shorty's muddy lips.

:(

C'mere.......

Harry Beanbag
3/22/2006, 12:09 PM
C'mere.......



http://training_sim.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/talking_horse_animated.gif

Mjcpr
3/22/2006, 12:10 PM
I was okay until this post.

Now I am sad for Shorty's muddy lips.

:(

Did they make that pffffffffft sound?


:confused:

NormanPride
3/22/2006, 12:21 PM
Did they make that pffffffffft sound?


:confused:

You're horrible!!



:D:D:D

BeetDigger
3/22/2006, 02:14 PM
I have to admit that I enjoy the work. Yes, it's sometimes brutal, but I always feel so much more "fullfilled" at the end of the day. If I ever spend a day lazing around the house, I feel pretty much worthless.

Stacking hay is a suck job though. I don't mind the weight, it's the damned wire cutting into your fingers that I hate. That's why I pretty much only bale round bales now.


Yeah, lots of folks have gone to the "1-ton" bales (which are closer to 1,500 lbs) because they end up being less work, like the round bales, but are pretty easy to stack. If I wasn't the one picking up the bales, I used to set the tension up to add weight to the bales. I'd get them babies up to 80-100 lbs. The stacker used to get ****ed off. Heh.

Nab'R
3/22/2006, 02:37 PM
My heart was pretty light driving back up to the house.


You had Thank God I'm A Country Boy playing on the 8-track, didn't you.

FaninAma
3/22/2006, 02:39 PM
Dean,

The only question I have is who had the motive to do ol' Shorty in? Hmmmmm?:cool:

Hamhock
3/22/2006, 02:40 PM
You had Thank God I'm A Country Boy playing on the 8-track, didn't you.


You mean:

I can skin a buck, I can run a trotline...

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 02:44 PM
Dean,

The only question I have is who had the motive to do ol' Shorty in? Hmmmmm?:cool:

I'm semi-thinking about having a dinner/mystery whodunnit out at the ranch.

Drinks, steaks, a hayride around back to where Shorty's rotting - er I mean resting, and .........

Harry Beanbag
3/22/2006, 02:45 PM
I'm semi-thinking about having a dinner/mystery whodunnit out at the ranch.

Drinks, steaks, a hayride around back to where Shorty's rotting - er I mean resting, and .........


You could save a lot of money on meat right now...

1stTimeCaller
3/22/2006, 02:46 PM
You could save a lot of money on meat right now...

JohnnyMack is always talking about goin' over to Deans to give him the ole sausage so I think Dean's good on free meat.

:dean:

FaninAma
3/22/2006, 02:47 PM
I'm semi-thinking about having a dinner/mystery whodunnit out at the ranch.

Drinks, steaks, a hayride around back to where Shorty's rotting - er I mean resting, and .........

Sounds good. I actually think Shorty did himself in because he got so freakin' tired of being around a domineering, nagging(get it) female(Ruby).

Harry Beanbag
3/22/2006, 02:48 PM
JohnnyMack is always talking about goin' over to Deans to give him the ole sausage so I think Dean's good on free meat.

:dean:


Yeah, but that's a small meal...

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 02:54 PM
A snack. JM's pecker makes a little smokey look like a Slovacek's Jalapeno Sausage on steroids.

Viking Kitten
3/22/2006, 03:01 PM
Dean. I swear I had nothing to do with this.

Sincerely, VK.

12
3/22/2006, 03:28 PM
A snack. JM's pecker makes a little smokey look like a Slovacek's Jalapeno Sausage on steroids.

How do you know about Slovacek, Yankee?

Norm In Norman
3/22/2006, 03:31 PM
Dean. I swear I had nothing to do with this.

Sincerely, VK.
Now my mental image is of you pulling a dead horse behind your car down a road in the dark.

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/22/2006, 03:35 PM
Hey man - she got kids in private school, yo.

And they gotta eat.

Viking Kitten
3/22/2006, 03:37 PM
Mmmm! Kids! Vittles!

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 03:54 PM
Bitch killed my horse. I knew it.

IB4OU2
3/22/2006, 04:01 PM
Sorry VK, The large eekorehC dnarG tat on Shorty's side was pretty damning evidence .

12
3/22/2006, 04:02 PM
I like how Shorty's remains being picked to bits by smaller critters makes it all ok.

(sniff) Poetry, man.


(SNOOOOOORT)

Viking Kitten
3/22/2006, 04:05 PM
Sorry VK, The large eekorehC dnarG tat on Shorty's side was pretty damning evidence .

And here I thought I was being all sneaky.

Jimminy Crimson
3/22/2006, 04:19 PM
I'm semi-thinking about having a dinner/mystery whodunnit out at the ranch.

Drinks, steaks, a hayride around back to where Shorty's rotting - er I mean resting, and .........

IN!

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 04:22 PM
How do you know about Slovacek, Yankee?

yankee? Don't make me write another poem son.

12
3/22/2006, 04:28 PM
Sorry, sir.

The "people" here make me say stuff like that.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 04:29 PM
And FWIW, we serve Slovaceks at our SF.com tailgates. But you wouldn't know that would you? No. Because you never show up.

12
3/22/2006, 04:36 PM
I went to one. That's one more than most people who post here.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 04:37 PM
I went to one. That's one more than most people who post here.

True enough.

TUSooner
3/22/2006, 04:38 PM
I may go to a tailgate again this year; it'll prolly depend on hurricane season though. :(

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 04:39 PM
I may go to a tailgate again this year; it'll prolly depend on hurricane season though. :(

Hey, thanks for the warning.

colleyvillesooner
3/22/2006, 04:43 PM
True enough.

get a room you too.


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C&CDean
Nevermind ;)

Jimminy Crimson
3/22/2006, 04:43 PM
Hey, thanks for the warning.

On hurricane season or him showin up at a 'gate? ;)

FaninAma
3/22/2006, 04:57 PM
Horse flank stew could have been on the tailgate menu if you would of thought about it.

BTW Dean, Jenny and Jill said that they are buying your neighbor's Tennesse Walker and keeping it on your place just so you don't miss Shorty so much. Thought that might comfort you in your time of sorrow.:mack:

TUSooner
3/22/2006, 04:59 PM
Hey, thanks for the warning.

No prob. I've decided to evacuate to El Rancho Dean this season.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 05:01 PM
Horse flank stew could have been on the tailgate menu if you would of thought about it.

BTW Dean, Jenny and Jill said that they are buying your neighbor's Tennesse Walker and keeping it on your place just so you don't miss Shorty so much. Thought that might comfort you in your time of sorrow.:mack:

Yeah, tell Jenny and Jill "thanks a pantload." I heard they were buying Ruby this weekend.....

Jimminy Crimson
3/22/2006, 05:03 PM
Horse flank stew could have been on the tailgate menu if you would of thought about it.

s'not too late! :texan:

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/22/2006, 05:04 PM
And I can't believe it took me this long but...


...the title of this thread is very misleading. :mack:

Jimminy Crimson
3/22/2006, 05:10 PM
And I can't believe it took me this long but...


...the title of this thread is very misleading. :mack:

Ditching Shorty would have been more appropriate.

How long before you go check up on the 'progress', :dean:?

12
3/22/2006, 05:13 PM
I think you need to do an eBay auction on Shorty's remains.

C&CDean
3/22/2006, 05:18 PM
Ditching Shorty would have been more appropriate.

How long before you go check up on the 'progress', :dean:?

I think she meant more like "burying shorty into a shortee." Or in layman's terms, dunking gus.

Jimminy Crimson
3/22/2006, 05:22 PM
I think she meant more like "burying shorty into a shortee." Or in layman's terms, dunking gus.

heh.

BSG is a shawty to us all.

TUSooner
3/22/2006, 05:27 PM
Only on the SO does a thread about a dead horse become a . . .
aww . . . . n/m

Rogue
3/22/2006, 07:02 PM
I can't believe I read this whole thing.