I had to look further into this after a teaser showed up on yahoo travel. Says it's a parody of St. Wenceslas riding a horse, the original monument is right side up. http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Unusual+Monuments%3a+Prague

[quote user="Solaris"]very rare to go directly from a BS to a PhD -- most of the time[/quote] Very true. I do know a couple of professor who have done it. Mostly these are the guys who got their PhD before they were 25. I also know Egyptologist at the University of Chicago working on their Phd for over 10 years.

[quote user="SeeingStarz"]Thats just ridiculous- http://video.foxnews.com/8338900 [/quote] The link doesn't work. The point is that someone had to give up their horse. I read somewhere that during WWI and II, the stables of Europe were emptied. As I'm sure we all know, during WWII, folks also sent their dogs to war. As before mentioned, sending a volunteer son or daughter who knows what they are getting into, is one thing. Sending a horse puts all the responsibility of the choice

[quote user="SeeingStarz"]Horses and mules continue to serve today[/quote] As they do with our Special Forces on the front lines in Afghanistan. We asked my brother-in-law, on leave from managing a forward operating base near Qandahar, how horses thereat where doing? They did not have any at their base. On some of the news clips showing soldier and rider, the local Afghan horses looked undersized for large and heavily laden Americans. At least our soldiers are using Afghan horses rather

[quote user="SeeingStarz"] Can anyone translate the text at the end? [/quote] It basically says, "We guarantee that the animal (horse) did not suffer any lingering back pain. The next day (the horse) returned to jumping competition." Obviously, there is no mention of the rider returning to the competition. It must have hurt, but he stayed on!

[quote user="txspots"]teeth are like razors [/quote] Due to their scavenger's diet of junk food and candy, The City of Chicago's older urban coons suffer from tooth decay. Many have missing teeth or are totally toothless. Of course, they still hiss and give rabies. Although it's kind of funny to see the leader of a pack hiss at you and see that he/she is totally toothless. City folks leave out hard candy or taffy for the coons as a means of long-term population control. I'm

[quote user="flakemusic"]Hmm, I've never heard of this[/quote] This was in the 80's when we lived in north Chicago around Foster and Pulaski where there are some large cemeteries and greenspace. We had a three-flat and fought garbage rummaging coons all the time. I don't think there was ever a convenient garbage can that the coons couldn't break into. The only ones that seemed to work were the 55 gallon drums with locking lids. Without any natural predators, the urban coons

Pennsylvania Coon Soup Recipe A belated Halloween thought.

We have a real good farrier, one of the best around these parts. He has clientele that's more affluent and demanding of the best for their horses. He's very knowledgeable, keeps up-to-date, prompt, guarantees his work and charges reasonable rates. Fortunately, he has some time left over for poor smucks like us. Like any tradesman, he has a finger on the pulse of the horse world he's in. He is a very positive guy, but lately, he has had some concerns. One of his concerns is the shuttering

So how do I train our horses to "open wide" and not chomp down on my hands? Next, I'd like to know what exactly I should be feeling for on their teeth.