What did you think it meant....?

Elbie said:
A non-horsey one:

at nursery school I didn't know all the words to the alphabet song. Instead of being taught it, you just had to join in with the song and figure it out for yourself. I always used to think the alphabet went "H I J K lemon lemon P"
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Ha LOL

My little cousin, when rehearsing for a nativity play thought they were learning about baby cheese's.
 
Lemon Lemon P definitely my favourite so far. I am feeling really poorly at the moment and laughing at it really hurt, then I started crying with the pain. Very funny though!
 
Jango said:
I remember when I was little watching a friend having a jumping lesson, the instructor kept saying ' look at the fence ' so my friend was looking at the fence around the arena! The instructor kept shouting it and my friend kept looking at different bits of the arena fence. I wondered what she was doing wrong and why he was getting louder and louder! it took a good few jumps for him to realise and change to 'look at the jump'!
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That made me LOL (loudly) :D

The poor girl who rides my pony doesn't really know terms such as go large and on/off the track which makes it doubly confusing when I am teaching her in the field and telling her to get on the track and not wander about in the middle of the "arena" as there is no track (or arena!!) :o:D
 
My ex had Grade A show jumpers and we would be at a big show (somewhere like Hickstead for example) and his dad would come to watch.
Now his dad was a sweet guy, very generous and jolly, but he was (dare I say it?) a bit thick and liked to think he knew a lot about horses. He knew NOTHING. Zilch!
We would cringe with embarrassment as he would strike up conversations with people around the collecting ring, riders and owners etc, and give them the benefit of his knowledge.
For some reason he thought ALL greys were 'Commeraras' (sic) and, strangely, were all six years old. I never fathomed that one out! Where did they all go when they reached 7?
Tack was another area of expertise. He actually TOLD Nick Skelton that his horse 'could do with a 'martindale'! ' Fortunately Nick saw the funny side :D
Bless him! I think he just wanted to be part of it all :) This was in the late 70's and the old chap is long gone now. We can look back and laugh about it, but at the time we were in our late teens/early twenties and took it all very seriously.
The good old days!! :D
 
In primary school I thought 'b*gger' meant 'butterfly' and was genuinely very upset to get scolded for using it. Neither teacher nor parents believed it was an honest error!

I got it into my head that someone had told me that Arabs should be bedded only on sand as they wouldn't lie down on anything else.

I spent a long time confused by instructors saying, 'leg', 'leg'... what am I supposed to be doing with my leg? Back, forward, more or less?

Possibly the best one was at a dressage clinic; clinician sat in the corner, under a rug and whined, 'get him to come into your hand', 'he's almost there', 'yes, just keep the rhythm and ask him to come into your hand' for 45mins. Wouldn't have been nearly so funny if she hadn't been so po faced about it all!
 
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loobylu said:
In primary school I thought 'b*gger' meant 'butterfly' and was genuinely very upset to get scolded for using it. Neither teacher nor parents believed it was an honest error!

I got it into my head that someone had told me that Arabs should be bedded only on sand as they wouldn't lie down on anything else.

I spent a long time confused by instructors saying, 'leg', 'leg'... what am I supposed to be doing with my leg? Back, forward, more or less?

Possibly the best one was at a dressage clinic; clinician sat in the corner, under a rug and whined, 'get him to come into your hand', 'he's almost there', 'yes, just keep the rhythm and ask him to come into your hand' for 45mins. Wouldn't have been nearly so funny if she hadn't been so po faced about it all!
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PMSL! :D Honestly I really am getting too old to giggle about things like this. Hahaha!
 
A pony arrived at the riding school when I was a slip of a girl It was suffering from laminitis.
The ancient farrier was studying its feet when the rather posh owner arrived.
"My good man, do you realise that this pony has lemon slices?"
"Aye, missus, I see that. Think that the best thing for lemon slices is gin."
"Gin?" "Aye gin goes with lemon slices."
Why didn't the vet tell me that?"
"Don't know missus, perhaps he prefers beer."
The woman jumped into her car and drove off.
The old man was giggling away and set about sorting the ponies feet out.
He had just finished when the woman came back with three bottles of gin which she presented to the farrier asking if it was enough to cure the pony.
All that was missing was the tonic!

The pony did become sound with management, and ever since laminitis has been lemon slices in my book.
 
The Lord's Prayer was always a big of an enigma to me.....

Our Father who shouts down from Heaven
Hello! What's your name?

We also still joke about giraffe proof cat flaps - must work as we never have any giraffes in the kitchen!
 
Foxhunter49 said:
A pony arrived at the riding school when I was a slip of a girl It was suffering from laminitis.
The ancient farrier was studying its feet when the rather posh owner arrived.
"My good man, do you realise that this pony has lemon slices?"
"Aye, missus, I see that. Think that the best thing for lemon slices is gin."
"Gin?" "Aye gin goes with lemon slices."
Why didn't the vet tell me that?"
"Don't know missus, perhaps he prefers beer."
The woman jumped into her car and drove off.
The old man was giggling away and set about sorting the ponies feet out.
He had just finished when the woman came back with three bottles of gin which she presented to the farrier asking if it was enough to cure the pony.
All that was missing was the tonic!

The pony did become sound with management, and ever since laminitis has been lemon slices in my book.
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I think your farrier must have been related to the one we used as a child :D :D :D (I just nearly choked while reading this one :D )
 
I remember about twenty odd years ago my granny being very confused we were selling a pony I'd outgrown, she had always thought ponies grew into horses and couldn't work out why mine wasn't growing quick enough!! :confused:::rolleyes::D
 
Up until the age of 16 when my brother quit riding he could not work out what heels down meant. Funnily enough he could manage toes up and I've found it useful teaching little boys especially.
 
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