The horse’s ‘voice’ is extremely annoying to me. It sounds like a bad Aussie accent.
Um, that would be Jemaine Clement, a New Zealander. Probably best known from Flight of the Conchords. He is quite funny, and pretty nice looking as well. He no doubt would be horrified to be mistaken as an Aussie! :lol:
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They should have consulted someone to get the correct footfall sequence of the walk…LOL[/QUOTE]
That’s why I think the horse is a Paso. He has a lateral walk.
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Hannah-and-her-horse-have-Houston-connection-6278425.php
This article says the horse is an Arabian they flew in from Puerto Rico. I like the commercials - they make me want to ride bareback on a beautiful beach! :)[/QUOTE]
Are the Arabs from Puerto Rico gaited? I also thought the horse was a Paso…
Some people think all grey horses are Arabians. I get that a lot from the general public with my grey horse.
Um, that would be Jemaine Clement, a New Zealander. Probably best known from Flight of the Conchords. He is quite funny, and pretty nice looking as well. He no doubt would be horrified to be mistaken as an Aussie!
Haha, that was always a running gag on Flight of the Conchords. At one point Jemaine was even dating a girl who was with him because she loved Australian accents. And of course that a-hole Aussie was always popping up to annoy them :lol:
Anyway, I particularly like the original ad. “Yes, yes, yes, now back to my story.” Much like the horse from Tangled (and really almost any horse put on TV) I like to think they based that horse off of my pony, because she absolutely would say that. What are they selling? Some sort of TV package? I don’t even remember.
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Some people think all grey horses are Arabians. I get that a lot from the general public with my grey horse.[/QUOTE]
Liar, everybody knows all white horses are Unicorns!
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Liar, everybody knows all white horses are Unicorns![/QUOTE]
And dappled grey ones are Appaloosas!!
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I didn’t realize wearing a bikini at a beach made you some kind of prostitute.[/QUOTE]
Grovelling in the sand with your chin 3 inches from the water line, while supposedly talking to one’s horse whom one cannot even see because he’s up there and you’re down here, apparently unable to shift your shoulders the slightest degree is what calls all this into question.
If she were standing on one leg, with both arms extended upward, holding a papaya, and delivered all her lines without moving, it would look similarly ridiculously artificial.
What I love is how the actress makes it so incredibly obvious that she’s stuck there. She is almost rolling her eyes.
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Grovelling in the sand with your chin 3 inches from the water line, while supposedly talking to one’s horse whom one cannot even see because he’s up there and you’re down here, apparently unable to shift your shoulders the slightest degree is what calls all this into question.
If she were standing on one leg, with both arms extended upward, holding a papaya, and delivered all her lines without moving, it would look similarly ridiculously artificial.
What I love is how the actress makes it so incredibly obvious that she’s stuck there. She is almost rolling her eyes.[/QUOTE]
she is playing second papaya to a talking horse after all!
The model is Derek Jeter’s girlfriend. The only reason I know that is the big controversy about she and he splitting a bill for pizza in Rome recently.
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And dappled grey ones are Appaloosas!![/QUOTE]
I used to get that too. Now his appaloosas are fading
Oh, dismount the drama llama of self-righteousness. If you don’t want to display your body, no one has a gun to your head. If I looked like her I’d take jobs shilling satellite in a bikini all day long. And since I have no problem praying for the Old Spice Man’s towel to slip a bit I don’t judge men (or lesbians) for looking at her tits.
And while I generally wear a long skirt at the beach (I only swim in pools but pants of any kind are too hot) I maybe wear flip-flops. Even WITH a horse I wouldn’t walk around in paddock boots and breeches. That just sounds gross in the sand.
This commercial reminds me of the old Crystal Light commercial.
That one was aimed at women but don’t recall the models were wearing much in that one either. And whatever they were half clad in was wet from the standing under the waterfall or the spray from the horses hooves galloping in a few inches of water splashing the rider. IIRC she wearing some sort of beachwear but not a bikini. Couldn’t tell what they were selling either.
If you don’t remember that ad offhand, it was backed by Enya’s Orinoco Flow…Sail away, sail away, sail away. Probably still on YouTube somewhere.
I like both these, pretty horse, pretty setting, pretty people, pretty music in one, beach music in the other. What’s not to like, bit of eye candy.
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They should have consulted someone to get the correct footfall sequence of the walk…LOL
I think they are above average. Better than the Rob Lowe ones for sure![/QUOTE]
Just about any commercial is better than the Rob Lowe ones.
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They should have consulted someone to get the correct footfall sequence of the walk…LOL[/QUOTE]
Hahaha … I think the commercials are cute, but that one came on while I was at work … My (non-horsey) co-workers laughed at me when I said, “that isn’t how a horse actually moves its legs!”
The term “soft porn” Always seemed a contradiction to me.
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The term “soft porn” Always seemed a contradiction to me.[/QUOTE]
:lol:
I see what you did there!
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The term “soft porn” Always seemed a contradiction to me.[/QUOTE]
I see what you did there![/QUOTE]
Well, it makes perfect sense when you’re talking about the Viagra lady :lol:
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I didn’t realize wearing a bikini at a beach made you some kind of prostitute. Some people are such prudes. Support your fellow woman’s right to wear whatever she wants, on tv or in real life, wherever she wants. Jeez.
But really. Sex sells. Whatever company that is wants to make money and that’s how you get the money spenders’ attention. She’s in a bikini. So? She’s treating her body like a commodity? So? She could also be the smartest girl you’ve ever met. Don’t be so judgy.
“If that’s the opinion you have of your body”? Really? She’s hot and she wants to show it off while she can. Good on her. If I could get paid to walk around in front of a camera in my bikini, I’d jump all over it too. I work out and I look good naked, and while I’m not going to film that for the masses, I don’t think showing off in a bathing suit is anything to be ashamed of.
Its not like she’s being human trafficked. Its a stupid tv commercial. Honestly, the things people get offended by boggles the mind.[/QUOTE]
One of the most intelligent women I’ve “met” is a lingerie model. I put “met” in quotes because we’ve never met in person. She found some of my work on an amateur poetry website and struck up a friendship. As a side note, it’s kind of cool to have a fangirl. 
She said she works hard to look good and she’s glad people want to see her. If her image is being used to sell someone’s product, so what? The advertiser got money, she got money, and the buyer got to see a beautiful woman in a bikini. Everybody’s happy.
I’ve noticed the Hanna and her Horse commercials but I haven’t actually watched any of them because I fast forward through commercials, but I’m going to watch them now because some of you think they’re clever. In my case, I guess the bikini wasn’t enough to make me stop the DVR.
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That’s why I think the horse is a Paso. He has a lateral walk.[/QUOTE]
When I saw the commercial the first thing I thought was “based on that walk I’ll bet it’s a gaited horse.”
On one of the Paso Fino FB groups someone mentioned that the “Horse” was answering questions on Twitter (or some social media) and confirmed that he was a PF.
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