World famous Clydesdales in town, available for viewing - Carthage, MO - Carthage Press

Carthage resident Colton Oberlechner reaches out to nuzzle one of the beautiful Clydesdale horses now chilling inside stalls at Flying J Arena through Saturday.

[Silent Bob7]

....stalls at Flying J Arena through Saturday.

[gina]

Silent Bob7 wrote:

....stalls at Flying J Arena through Saturday.

It's terrible to exploit animals this way.

[clyde crumpton]

Im thinking of sneaking my teacup pony in there and let him bred one of them,he loves them bigboned women.I need a skytrac to pick him up to just the right heighth.

[Sniktaw]

Clyde you are a naughty boy maybe you need a skytrac,just wondering.

[Silent Bob7]

gina wrote:

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It's terrible to exploit animals this way.

EXPLOIT? What are you talking about? They are Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales! The get all the FREE BEER they want! That would be an awesome job! ;-)

[Silent Bob7]

clyde crumpton wrote:

Im thinking of sneaking my teacup pony in there and let him bred one of them,he loves them bigboned women.I need a skytrac to pick him up to just the right heighth.

Thats a WILD thought! Can you imagine the size of the FEET on those colts?

LOL

[Silent Bob7]

OOOPS, MY BAD! Horses do not have FEET! I guess the word should be hooves! Silent Bob is definitely not a Rancher!

[clyde crumpton]

silent bob7,I think we should get us some bud draft and sit back and watch the show.You in Sniktaw?

[Silent Bob7]

clyde crumpton wrote:

silent bob7,I think we should get us some bud draft and sit back and watch the show.You in Sniktaw?

Man, COLD DRAFT sounds good! It'll take me awhile to get there though, I am in Florida near Tampa right now. I know its kinda weird that I edit the Topix news for that area and live near the beach here, but I am from Jasper County and homesick I guess. I like to keep up on the 4-state news too - Florida SUCKS and I will move back up north eventually. It really blows that I missed the Maple Leaf stuff in Carthage, too. BTW, where the hell is Sniktaw??

[abcxyz]

gina wrote:

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It's terrible to exploit animals this way.

<<<EYEROLL>>

Yeah. It's better they should serve no purpose whatsoever and end up at a meat auction. Good plan.

These horses get better care than most people. Get a grip.

[runt daddy]

any idea how to find directions to that meat auction,

[Paul Brantly]

I personally have ate horse meat and it pisses me off they wasted this stuff on soap.

[Dark_Island]

Paul Brantly wrote:

I personally have ate horse meat and it pisses me off they wasted this stuff on soap.

For the most part, they don't. Horse meat goes to large markets in Europe (France is a big buyer) and Japan. We no longer slaughter in this country but we do send thousands of horses -- EVERY DAY -- to Canadian and Mexican slaughter plants. The meat goes to Europe and Japan from there.

I'm not sure that horse meat is illegal in the U.S.; we just don't slaughter here anymore.

[Silent Bob7]

Dark_Island wrote:

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For the most part, they don't. Horse meat goes to large markets in Europe (France is a big buyer) and Japan. We no longer slaughter in this country but we do send thousands of horses -- EVERY DAY -- to Canadian and Mexican slaughter plants. The meat goes to Europe and Japan from there.
I'm not sure that horse meat is illegal in the U.S.; we just don't slaughter here anymore.

Eating horse meat just doesn't appeal to me, sounds NASTY for some reason. I saw something about black market horse meat on the news the other day - I was wondering what that was all about!

Hey Dark_Island I was going to help you with editing the Halloween Page but they did not add me on until a WEEK AFTER Halloween! The Halloween News will start slowin' down now I guess!

[Dark_Island]

Silent Bob7 wrote:

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Eating horse meat just doesn't appeal to me, sounds NASTY for some reason. I saw something about black market horse meat on the news the other day - I was wondering what that was all about!
Hey Dark_Island I was going to help you with editing the Halloween Page but they did not add me on until a WEEK AFTER Halloween! The Halloween News will start slowin' down now I guess!

Oh, well, there'll be another one next year.

Maybe.

I see a newswire story pop up saying the days of Halloween are limited. Dang.

You can always keep an eye on it and take out news stories that don't belong there. I take out ones that mention Halloween just because some one got murdered that day, had an accident that day, there's some movie that mentions Halloween, etc. etc. That's how *I* edit that forum. You can do what you want, of course. That's what makes multiple editors fun.

[Silent Bob7]

Dark_Island wrote:

<quoted text>You can always keep an eye on it and take out news stories that don't belong there. I take out ones that mention Halloween just because some one got murdered that day, had an accident that day, there's some movie that mentions Halloween, etc. etc. That's how *I* edit that forum. You can do what you want, of course. That's what makes multiple editors fun.

Yes I agree. I was wondering what your ideas were about it - sounds like we do it the same way. I have a tendency to add images to articles (because I think it makes them look more interesting on the news page). If the article doesn't have a photo I will grab a public domain stock photo related to it and add it for fun, so you may see some weird ones sometimes LOL.

[Dark_Island]

Silent Bob7 wrote:

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Yes I agree. I was wondering what your ideas were about it - sounds like we do it the same way. I have a tendency to add images to articles (because I think it makes them look more interesting on the news page). If the article doesn't have a photo I will grab a public domain stock photo related to it and add it for fun, so you may see some weird ones sometimes LOL.

Ah, I see we DO agree. I have an extra drive just for private photos, stock photos and clip art to put with articles. It's a rare article that doesn't have some sort of pic to go with it. Weird is good. Especially in Halloween.

Look around for some other topics to edit that might float your boat. You'd be surprised which ones turn out to be more fun than you might suspect. The Michael Jackson forum has turned out to be the most fun ever for me -- I'm not a fan, you see. I like presenting the... <cough> *different* <cough> Michael Jackson news. After all, this isn't a fan site, right? ;)

[Grunt]

My brother Runt would like one of his ponies to breed a clydesdale.

[Silent Bob7]

Grunt wrote:

My brother Runt would like one of his ponies to breed a clydesdale.

That could be interesting. What kind of ponies does your brother Runt have?

[Dark_Island]

Small stallions trying to breed large mares are ripe to get kicked badly (and often fatally) in the stomach and nether regions. My miniature stallion (7.1 hands) was quite the Romeo and we had to keep a strict eye (and often a lead rope) on him when he started eyeing up the big girls in the pasture. He had BIG ideas, he did.