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Cnut the Great

Mange Mite posted:

A trained horse knows and can respond to its name

Yes, but does it truly understand the concept of names on the same level as a human with a distinct sense of personal identity, or is it just responding to a sequence of sounds which it's been trained to recognize as meaning "Pay attention"?

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ClamdestineBoyster
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cool and good posted:

A horse has no name

Humpy the horse (who thinks he's a camel)

Isaac

Maybe hes on heroin aka horse

Cnut the Great

Isaac posted:

Maybe hes on heroin aka horse

why would a rock song be secretly about drugs?

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

My college roommate thought the "oh Lord" in the air tonight was "hold on"

he is saying '"mow lawn"

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
as in "cut the grass"

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Isaac posted:

Maybe hes on heroin aka horse

the great deceiver

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona
it never explicitly says what desert hes riding through. sonora? mojave? kalahari? really ruined my immersion in the song

Isaac

the great deceiver posted:

it never explicitly says what desert hes riding through. sonora? mojave? kalahari? really ruined my immersion in the song

Lets narrow it down. Which ones lead to the ocean

the great deceiver

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

Isaac posted:

Lets narrow it down. Which ones lead to the ocean

well i guess the mojave will if you rode the horse through LA. i guess youd eventually get to the gulf of california if you kept riding west in the sonora. not sure about the kalahari. no knowledge of the gobi. whats that big desert in australia and do you have any knowledge of it??? maybe that could make or break this question

Inexplicable Humblebrag

Cnut the Great posted:

Yes, but does it truly understand the concept of names on the same level as a human with a distinct sense of personal identity, or is it just responding to a sequence of sounds which it's been trained to recognize as meaning "Pay attention"?

Yeah this is what I was getting at. I would not claim that horses can't respond to words which humans have assigned them

Isaac

the great deceiver posted:

well i guess the mojave will if you rode the horse through LA. i guess youd eventually get to the gulf of california if you kept riding west in the sonora. not sure about the kalahari. no knowledge of the gobi. whats that big desert in australia and do you have any knowledge of it??? maybe that could make or break this question

im imagining all deserts have some part of "non desert" before the ocean. Anyone know if this is mentioned in the song?

Twenty Four


Maybe we should finally name the horse. Anyone know some good horse names?

Excelzior

Isaac posted:

im imagining all deserts have some part of "non desert" before the ocean. Anyone know if this is mentioned in the song?

yes, before the ocean there were plants and birds, and rocks and things, there was sand and hills and rings.

Inexplicable Humblebrag

The horse is presumably still running free, as he had to be turned loose when the desert turned to sea

If he's in the desert, naming him will be useless, as he will be unable to remember his name

Quote-Unquote



Isaac posted:

Lets narrow it down. Which ones lead to the ocean

it's obviously about antarctica

antarctica is one massive desert and there's no gap between desert and ocean

it also has:
- plants (two species of flowering plant in the whole continent)
- birds (yeah loads of birds)
- rocks (i mean it's basically nothing BUT rocks with some ice and poo poo)
- things (ice is a thing, right?)

there is one kind of fly that lives in the antarctic so that explains the buzz

is very rarely rains so it felt good to be out of the rain

the air was full of sound because of the constant high winds

feeling heat is a sign of hypothermia which you'd probably get in the antarctic if all you had was a horse with no name

and there are no people that live in the antarctic so that's why there was nobody there for to give him no name.

MYSTERY SOLVED CLOSE THREAD

Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 12:59 on May 31, 2016

Sheen Sheen
This band leaves a lot of questions unanswered, I mean what the gently caress is an alligator lizard and how did it get in the air??? :iiam:

EDIT: I just googled alligator lizard, apparently it's just a small lizard. Still doesn't explain how it got in the air though

Sheen Sheen fucked around with this message at 13:21 on May 31, 2016

OXBALLS DOT COM

by FactsAreUseless

the great deceiver posted:

it never explicitly says what desert hes riding through. sonora? mojave? kalahari? really ruined my immersion in the song

It's the desert of the real

jarofpiss

horses were like the first electric cars

ghlbtsk

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS

Twenty Four posted:

Maybe we should finally name the horse. Anyone know some good horse names?

how about With No Name

Isaac

Quote-Unquote posted:

it's obviously about antarctica

antarctica is one massive desert and there's no gap between desert and ocean

it also has:
- plants (two species of flowering plant in the whole continent)
- birds (yeah loads of birds)
- rocks (i mean it's basically nothing BUT rocks with some ice and poo poo)
- things (ice is a thing, right?)

there is one kind of fly that lives in the antarctic so that explains the buzz

is very rarely rains so it felt good to be out of the rain

the air was full of sound because of the constant high winds

feeling heat is a sign of hypothermia which you'd probably get in the antarctic if all you had was a horse with no name

and there are no people that live in the antarctic so that's why there was nobody there for to give him no name.

MYSTERY SOLVED CLOSE THREAD

I happen to be a recruiter for a certain three letter agency. Send me a e-card

Drunk & Ugly

GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

"In the desert, on a horse with no name." It's the horse that doesn't have a name.

oh yeah idiot? what if you add a comma

"In the desert, on a horse, with no name."

Isaac

I like this thread ive given it a Five. The highest you can rate a thread.

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Quote-Unquote posted:

it's obviously about antarctica

antarctica is one massive desert and there's no gap between desert and ocean

it also has:
- plants (two species of flowering plant in the whole continent)
- birds (yeah loads of birds)
- rocks (i mean it's basically nothing BUT rocks with some ice and poo poo)
- things (ice is a thing, right?)

there is one kind of fly that lives in the antarctic so that explains the buzz

is very rarely rains so it felt good to be out of the rain

the air was full of sound because of the constant high winds

feeling heat is a sign of hypothermia which you'd probably get in the antarctic if all you had was a horse with no name

and there are no people that live in the antarctic so that's why there was nobody there for to give him no name.

MYSTERY SOLVED CLOSE THREAD

good post fiev stasr

The_Book_Of_Harry

This thread is of such high quality that I almost stepped in dog (?) poo poo, because I was more interested in reading the unnameable, dry wit and analysis than looking down at the sidewalk

jarofpiss

The_Book_Of_Harry posted:

This thread is of such high quality that I almost stepped in dog (?) poo poo, because I was more interested in reading the unnameable, dry wit and analysis than looking down at the sidewalk

yet you still bent down, picked it up, and put it right here for all of the Internet to read

Quote-Unquote



Isaac posted:

I happen to be a recruiter for a certain three letter agency. Send me a e-card

no thank you i have no interest in working for PIE

Gamer With Dignity

by Nyc_Tattoo
The desert has no name, op, and it's on top of a horse. I hope this helps.

Inexplicable Humblebrag

I, the desert, am nameless. The horse is called Clive

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG


the white horse

Flesh Forge

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG


black dog

Ben Murphy

I like him in spite of the fact that he's not me.
"Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain."

I dare you to try and diagram that sentence

Roylicious

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

But the next line is, "In the desert, you can't remember your name"

The line is you CAN remember your name
cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.

Roylicious fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 31, 2016

flakeloaf

Still better than android clock

Gamer With Dignity posted:

The desert has no name, op, and it's on top of a horse. I hope this helps.

I've been through the desert (on a horse) with no name

Checks out.

Banana Canada
I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.



Actually the lyric should have been "horse with no mane" but Dewey Bunnell was dyslexic.

misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit

ghlbtsk posted:

how about With No Name

misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit
Money for nothing and the chicks for free

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The Bananana

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



misty mountaintop posted:

Money for nothing and the chicks for free

That's a good song. I hope you're not being sarcastical

Nathilus

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Harald posted:

list of things in desert:

plants
birds
rocks,
things

:agreed:

Maybe the horse's name was "A Horse With no Name". It might sound ubelievable but its not. Horse names can get really long and stupid.

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misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit
I think the guy's name was probably A Horse With No Name, and the horse didn't have a name

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