Re: tunefl and other web services

[David Kastrup]

Philip Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 at 18:37:00 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>Anyway, I did once beat a dead horse for a while (I tried getting it
>>to stand up again, as the first thought after it had collapsed with a
>>sudden aorta rupture on the riding ground was a severe colic attack).
>>A rather traumatic experience I would not wish on anybody.
>
> Now, here David's touch is more readily 
> apparent: I didn't immediately know whether it was easier to believe
> him or not to. So I'll just have to wait to see
> whether in future posts he starts mentioning sleeping dogs that he has
> let lie, dead cats that he's swung by the tail,
> and so on.

Oli, a Haflinger my girlfriend had trained herself.  Something like 7
years old, and rather good-natured.  I had been chasing him and two
Shetland ponies on the riding place for exercise when he neighed and
fell down.  Probably unconscious within 10 seconds, but it was likely 10
minutes before I gave up on him, trying to get him to stand up again.
It was on a Saturday, so it was two days before the knacker came by.
Our landlord used a tractor for dragging him off the riding place, and
we tied him down under an opaque plastic sheet to keep the riding pupils
from seeing him.  Rigor mortis made him uncover himself partially again.
When he was removed two days later, there already was considerable
stench.  Several thousand Euros and years of training and a very friedly
horse gone in a moment out of the blue, with me being the one who felt
responsible for it (could have happened at any time, so it was actually
good that there was no rider involved, but that did not help making me
feel better).

> Anyway, my convex body was shaken by a good belly laugh when I read
> it. And yes, I admit that am prepared to take the horse story at face
> value, and I did feel sorry for the horse and it's rider, even while I
> was momentarily convulsed with laughter.

There is no accounting for tastes.

-- 
David Kastrup