[QUOTE=cowgirljenn;7670611]
Oh I wonder if it was this woman (I had forgotten about her, I had to dig the email out of my archives): [/QUOTE]
This has to be the same lady…your email is amazing. I am going to save it for anytime I am feeling down and out, because for some reason it makes me smile like a Cheshire cat. Truly the epitome of bat$hit crazy. :D:D
I wonder if anyone ever sold her a horse?
[QUOTE=SmartAlex;7671357]
Is it weird that I’m sitting here wondering if the trouble to bridle a unicorn would even be worth it? And shoeing those cloven hooves… Nah, I’m confidant you would be expected to keep them barefooted.[/QUOTE]
You could just unbuckle the side and put bridle crown on over the ears, not have to deal with the horn. Like bridling a mule or donkey that doesn’t like ears handled.
You can’t shoe unicorns with steel or iron, affects the magic. Cloven hoof is not a real problem, Farriers used to shoe Oxen with cloven hooves. Know that all the Oxen shoes were handmades!
I would go with barefoot, because the price of silver or gold for shoes would be even worse than normal shoeing!
Unicorns probably would have no problems with barefoot, never been bred purposely for “pretty feet” so they would have no hoof issues to ever deal with.
[QUOTE=SmartAlex;7671174]
cowgirljenn’s unicorns for the win![/QUOTE]
She won by a horn!
I really thought the donkey husband couldn’t be topped. Oh me of little faith. The human race can still amaze, just not sure it’s in a good way this time :lol: Or is she human? Maybe there’s a loophole and we aren’t as bad off as implied 
This thread is exactly what my Friday needed!
[QUOTE=gloriginger;7671369]
I wonder if anyone ever sold her a horse?[/QUOTE]
I can just see some Ben K. Green-type cowboy selling her a REALLY FAT old gray gelding and telling her that the horse was already carrying a unicorn and almost ready to foal…All you need is the appropriate amount of crystals hanging in the stall (buyer would have to figure out what kind and how many), and whammo, here’s your unicorn.
Lovin’ these stories!!
I’m stove up today with a bit of heat exhaustion (running the river in a jet boat during the hottest summer ever in this part of the world) and have plenty of time to peruse the offerings.
Plenty of stories on my part and since I have time to sort them all and pick some winners, I’ll keep reading and enjoying.
Plus, my brain is a bit fried and can’t quite get the thoughts in a row…
[QUOTE=wireweiners;7671083]
Unicorns are not born black and gray out. They are born gold, then turn silver and finally pure white about 5 years of age. So says Hagrid, Professor of Care of Magical Creatures. So that woman was absolutely wrong.;)[/QUOTE]
This comment wins. +one million internets to you, my friend.
Isn’t that unicorn woman the same one mentioned years ago on Fugly involving some of the following things? I say some because I can’t remember the details, just a vague recollection. Surely there can’t be two unicorn ladies??
an heiress or great wealth
a huge horse farm in the Pacific Northwest
a bunch of horses, like fifty or a hundred
unicorn breeding theories
hoarding
neglect
starved horses
[QUOTE=SmartAlex;7671357]
Is it weird that I’m sitting here wondering if the trouble to bridle a unicorn would even be worth it? And shoeing those cloven hooves… Nah, I’m confidant you would be expected to keep them barefooted.[/QUOTE]
No, I’m sorry, unicorns have horse hooves. Those other unicorn accounts and historic fables and antique tapestries depicting cloven-hooved animals are just incorrect.
I do think there’s a 'squatch in these woods.
[QUOTE=wireweiners;7671083]
Unicorns are not born black and gray out. They are born gold, then turn silver and finally pure white about 5 years of age. So says Hagrid, Professor of Care of Magical Creatures. So that woman was absolutely wrong.;)[/QUOTE]
I believe they do not go pure white until the age of 7
“Unicorn foals are born pure gold in colour. They remain so until they are about two years old, at which time they turn silver in colour. At around four-years-old their horn grows in. They are fully grown at about seven years old, at which at this age they turn a shade of pure white that is so bright that it makes freshly fallen snow look grey in comparison. Their hooves are golden, (remaining so from their gold stage, the first two years of their life), and their blood is silver-blue in colour and shines under the moonlight. It is not mentioned how long a Unicorn can live for.”
[QUOTE=SmartAlex;7671357]
Is it weird that I’m sitting here wondering if the trouble to bridle a unicorn would even be worth it? And shoeing those cloven hooves… Nah, I’m confidant you would be expected to keep them barefooted.[/QUOTE]
Ummm, hello?? Unicorns don’t need bridles! Not with their telepathic connection. Once you’re ‘bonded’, you’re golden. Jeesh!! I thought everyone knew that… :lol::lol::winkgrin:
http://barbtaub.com/2013/03/08/scientists-identify-unicorn-dna/
…but the bad news is…
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-ancient-unicorn-lair-discovered-in-north-korea-1772069
Kim Jong-un continues to amuse…
http://www.thequantumawakening.com/Magic%20of%20the%20Unicorn%20Healing%20DNA%20Wands.htm
This site contains all of CoTH’s favorite things: moving and flashing stuff, purple, sparkles, romantic pictures of girls in long dresses caressing unicorns…
http://sizem14.imascientist.org.uk/2014/03/12/would-it-be-genetically-possible-to-mutate-a-horse-into-a-unicorn-i-actually-want-to-know/
A scientist struggles to seriously answer a unicorn-dna question and manages to withhold sarcasm.
It was a real email a friend of mine got about an Andy she had for sale, and she was kind enough to share it with me so we could both fall out of our chairs laughing. I’ve kept it so I can reread it and laugh again…
[QUOTE=chestnuthunter;7672452]
I believe they do not go pure white until the age of 7
“Unicorn foals are born pure gold in colour. They remain so until they are about two years old, at which time they turn silver in colour. At around four-years-old their horn grows in. They are fully grown at about seven years old, at which at this age they turn a shade of pure white that is so bright that it makes freshly fallen snow look grey in comparison. Their hooves are golden, (remaining so from their gold stage, the first two years of their life), and their blood is silver-blue in colour and shines under the moonlight. It is not mentioned how long a Unicorn can live for.”[/QUOTE]
mutters You’re such a show off, Hermione…
;D
[QUOTE=lovemeinfocus;7672508]
mutters You’re such a show off, Hermione…
;D[/QUOTE]
Well, we can’t have people misunderstanding the critical stages of unicorn development!
[QUOTE=kelo;7672112]
I can just see some Ben K. Green-type cowboy selling her a REALLY FAT old gray gelding and telling her that the horse was already carrying a unicorn and almost ready to foal…[/QUOTE]
Foaling a unicorn sounds painful. Imagine you don’t get the alignment of the horn just right?!
[QUOTE=PeteyPie;7672424]
Isn’t that unicorn woman the same one mentioned years ago on Fugly involving some of the following things? I say some because I can’t remember the details, just a vague recollection. Surely there can’t be two unicorn ladies??
an heiress or great wealth
a huge horse farm in the Pacific Northwest
a bunch of horses, like fifty or a hundred
unicorn breeding theories
hoarding
neglect
starved horses[/QUOTE]
May not be the same lay-dee, but, there was a woman here in S. OR who wore her minks and elbow length gloves to the barn. Not to mention her diamonds and tiara. She tried to sell one as kid safe or at least very gentle. A friend of mine saw the horse and said it was barking mad, crazy at the very least.
[QUOTE=PeteyPie;7672433]
I do think there’s a 'squatch in these woods.[/QUOTE]
There IS a 'squatch in those woods!! Look along the Rogue River and you’ll see him, hiding in the bushes. Along with a couple of mannequins which are barely clothed. Not to mention the classy broad who mooned a boatload of people.
[QUOTE=toady123;7672627]
Foaling a unicorn sounds painful. Imagine you don’t get the alignment of the horn just right?![/QUOTE]
Well, see, that’s what I meant when I said you have to get the (a) proper type, (b) proper color and © proper amount of crystals, all hung at precisely the proper length.
Then your really fat, old gray gelding will foal out the unicorn, no problemo.
The unicorn doesn’t come out before the crystals are right though. It’s like a Rubick’s Cube for Krazy People.
[QUOTE=toady123;7672627]
Foaling a unicorn sounds painful. Imagine you don’t get the alignment of the horn just right?![/QUOTE]
Didn’t anyone else have the Serendipity books? Wasn’t Morgan born with just a bud of a horn?
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