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WATCH: A woman from Missouri walked out of her house to find a corgi riding a pony. Yes, you're reading this correctly a CORGI RIDING A PONY! WHAT IS GOING ON?!?! More news >> https://t.co/ASlfICmdRx pic.twitter.com/nOBRNbqE6F
— WAFB (@WAFB) February 7, 2018
BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) – A dog riding a one-eyed pony into the night is a surely a spectacle that needs video proof. A Missouri woman made sure to get exactly that.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Callie Schenker pulled into her driveway Thursday to the sight of her neighbor’s Corgi sitting on her horse, Cricket. She recorded a 15-second video of the pony trotting away into the darkness as the canine sits atop, looking at the camera.
The 22-year-old posted the video on Facebook with the message, “I can’t make this stuff up!!! So we pull back in our driveway tonight and this is what we see. This is not our dog! But apparently him and Cricket the one-eyed wonder pony are best friends.” The video has received 5.3 million views as of Tuesday morning.
Schenker says the Corgi’s owners are Mennonites who avoid going online, so they likely don’t know their dog is gaining internet fame.
Open thread!
NotMax
Now that’s a dog and pony show.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Dost Þe need a reason?
misterpuff
And I thought I just wanted a pony!
chopper
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
“because it was there”.
Karmus
Well, I’ll be a one-eyed…
Mnemosyne
Corgis have those short little legs. He was probably tired ? ?
Mnemosyne
Speaking of unusual sights, I think I saw a Mennonite couple on their honeymoon on Amtrak last year. They were all snuggled up together and Facetiming with a family member.
(Mennonite clothes and hairstyles are pretty easy to tell apart from your run-of-the-mill Quiverfull morons.)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Mnemosyne: Amish / Mennonites in traditional dress are a fairly common site in 30th Street Station in Philly. I think every local church makes their own rules as to what is and isn’t acceptable technology.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a horse and a corgi… I wonder if old Betty is sitting up watching this, her phone in one hand and a fancy goblet of cheap gin in the other
debbie
Ozark has some splaining to do.
Mnemosyne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
This was on the Coast Starlight in California, which is why I assume they were probably Mennonites.
ChrisH
I got some pro-Turkish propaganda justifying their attacks against the PKK as a youtube ad today. It’s from a youtube channel called TRT World which appears to be a mix of Vox and Turkish propo.
NotMax
It was a one-eyed, one dogged, trotting dappled fodder eater
Everybody sing!
Karmus
That dog is one stable genius.
Mike in NC
Rand Paul shutting down the government. Take a victory lap, you asshole.
sanjeevs
Lyrebird
Fun fact: Bolivar, MO is pronounced like Oliver!
Adam L Silverman
This should be fun:
danielx
@Lyrebird:
I am certain you will be shocked to learn that Peru, IN is pronounced Pee-ru in some circles.
Steeplejack
I want to know how the Corgi got up on the pony’s back. I suspect this video was a little bit staged. But, wait, it was on the Internet and local TV, so it’s probably true. Never mind.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Carter Page confuses me so. I have no idea what he was doing and for whom. Of why, for that matter.
NotMax
@Lyrebird
Ditto for Bolivar, NY.
danielx
@NotMax:
Shoot low, boys, they’re riding Shetlands!
Major Major Major Major
Lol! Makes sense that a corgi wouldn’t want to jump off that far, but how did it get up…
jl
@NotMax: ” Now that’s a dog and pony show.”
More entertaining and wholesome that the Trumpster shit show the feds are putting on.
eric U.
@Omnes Omnibus: seems like Carter Page is in a state of confusion most of the time. I’m just curious how he got this screwed up.
Adam L Silverman
@sanjeevs: The issue is the President:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-security-clearance_us_5a7cc966e4b0c6726e116679?nu
Wag
@NotMax:
Do locals pronounce it “ Bo-Liver”?
PhoenixRising
@Major Major Major Major: my guess, knowing both species fairly well: corgi walked off the porch onto the pony’s back.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re not alone. I’m not sure Carter Page knows either.
philpm
Before I saw this was in Bolivar, I was pretty convinced it happened at my aunt and uncle’s farm in Leavenworth.
Yutsano
And BOOM shutdown!
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Several years ago, I rode the Empire Builder (Seattle to Chicago), and two of my fellow passengers were Mennonite or similar (I didn’t ask for particulars); the older of the two was coming back from Mexico where he had just gotten a hip (I think) replaced and their religion didn’t allow them to take a plane. For someone soon after a joint replacement, he did remarkably well on the tight stairs of the Amtrak bilevel sleeper cars.
Major Major Major Major
@PhoenixRising: Makes me think of the Radiolab story about a goat on a cow.
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
There’s got to be a ledge, maybe in the stable, from which the wee doggie can jump onto the pony’s back.
Soprano2
That’s my neck of the woods; Bolivar is about 30 miles from me. That video and story is a big thing here. She never thought it would get this big!
Major Major Major Major
Apparently Rand Paul just shut down the government.
Brachiator
The same Republicans who now defend Trump to the hilt, no questions asked. Oh, the irony. So delicious.
NotMax
Welcome to the Rand Discorporation.
@Wag
BAH-lih-ver.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: He is a GOPer. Let’s tie it to them.
Mike in NC
@Adam L Silverman: Fat Bastard only hires the very best people, or at least those willing to work his shitty wages. Ha!
Brachiator
@Major Major Major Major:
Didn’t he vote for the GOP tax cut?
Adam L Silverman
@Brachiator: Self awareness is not one of his strong suits.
danielx
@Adam L Silverman:
You’re assuming he has any strong suits, aside from his naturally curly hair.
Adam L Silverman
@danielx: He combed it tonight. It looked worse than usual.
Adam L Silverman
Alright, I’m going to go rub doggie bellies and watch this documentary on flame throwers I DVRed earlier. Play nice or Rand Paul will come to your house and talk for a long time!
Lyrebird
@danielx:
Shocked, shocked I tell you … not that anyone’s likely to be listening, too many fresh threads, but this is all extra funny because I’ve been both to Bolliver MO and to Peeru IN.
@NotMax: …but not yet to the NY contender!
Have driven through Ver Sales (Versailles) KY though!
Language change is fun.
Origuy
@Lyrebird: What about Brazil (BRAY-zil}, Indiana? There’s a wide spot in the road north of Bloomington called Hindustan, pronounced hin-DOO-ston.
Anne Laurie
@Steeplejack:
Nah. Dogs will climb up on other beasts’ backs, as a dominance move (or cuz their feets are cold). And corgis are usually domineering dogs — they were bred to herd cattle, who kick when driven. So: Pony is sitting (lying) down; corgi clambers up on its back, possibly using a rock or ledge as a booster. Pony, not impressed, stands up again… and corgi decides he’s not sure about jumping that far down, at least in the dark. Pony’s too old or lazy to actively attempt to buck or brush fat bastid corgi off… and then the humans come home, and make fun of them.
And speaking of “repronounced” towns: I nominate PEER-ee, Michigan. Spelled “Pierre”.
(Of course, there’s also a Michigan city which is prominent enough that nobody remembers its French-Canadian founders called it Day-TWAH… )
SgrAstar
@Lyrebird: let’s not forget BeeyewNa Vista, Colorado…
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
So many from which to choose.
Bogota (Buh-GO-tah), NJ
Cairo (KAY-ro), IL
And on and on.
Kristine
@NotMax: Mar-sales IL (Marseille)
Big Picture Pathologist
@NotMax:
Internet won for the day, just under the wire…
BC in Illinois
@NotMax:
And, of course, New AY-thens, Illinois (pronounced with a long “A” sound).
Not far from Sparta.