Well, hello there!
Dec 12 2011
We thought we’d kick off our adventure with the FHOTD blog by posting an introduction. A little bit about ourselves, what direction we intend to take the blog in and a few changes/ideas we have up our sleeves.
If it pleases the Court of Fugly, we thought our FHOTD names could be Snugly and Snarkly. For those of you who are curious, DE is Snugly and JG is Snarkly. We think it should suit the blog!
Our background is primarily in the English world; however this doesn’t mean that we’ll be limiting our focus to that side of the industry! Unfortunately, reasons to be snarky can be found in all disciplines and we don’t intend to leave anyone out. We have committed to writing two posts per week – some weeks you may see a little more, but never less. There will be a large range of topics, but rest assured we’ve read your comments (both on this blog and in other forums) and we intend to get back to the Fugly roots and get our conformation critique on.
In addition to our minimum two posts per week, we’d also like to feature guest posts at least once a week. The readers of the Fugly blog are heavily involved and invested; we feel they should have a voice as well. That said, we reserve the right to be picky; only those with writing skills, a snarky tone and/or with something of value/interesting to say will be featured! We’re hoping to get a wide range of disciplines involved and make this blog accessible to all. Check out the new “Submissions” page for more details.
Suggestions will always be welcome. If you want to know more about a particular conformational fault, a poorly reputed trainer or have heard of some breaking news that you feel has a place on FHOTD, then by all means send it to us. We’re going to be continuing to write Snarky Rider as well so there’s bound to be times when we miss a horrific news article (and here “miss” may occasionally be synonymous with “hiding under the bed avoiding the world”). So if you find something worthy of attention, please do share (we’ll check our email as soon as we emerge from under the bed, thanks for your patience).
As has always been done on the Fugly blog, comments will continue to be moderated to keep the gratuitous use of profanity out of the discussion. We’re all for the use of one or two four letter words to drive home your point, but please, if it doesn’t further your point, kindly keep your potty-keyboard to yourself.
On the topic of hate mail, if you have a contentious bone to pick with us and don’t feel like leaving it as a comment, please do feel free to email it to us. However, there is a proper way to do this. We insist, quite strongly, that all hate mail be addressed as follows:
“Dear Snugly bitches…”
…and you may complete that sentence and any subsequent ones as you see fit!
Finally, we’d like to thank Mugs for choosing us. Her tenure here may have been brief, but she definitely gave us things to think about. Snarkly is actually riding her horse sans noseband these days thanks to a Mugly post! We’re addicted to the horse training stories she posts over on Mugwump Chronicles and hope that she may possibly grace us with a guest post from time to time. Fingers crossed!
Ok! That should about cover it! So we’re off and running. Our next post will be out in a few days. We are very much looking forward to the passionate discussion that we are 100% positive it will generate! 
With that, we bid thee adieu and happy snarking!
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I’m looking forward to seeing your new posts – it’ll be great to get a bi-weekly dose of Fugly.
http://www.felixfjord.blogspot.com
Welcome!
You don’t seem to have mentioned animal welfare in the list of things you intend to cover. I hope that’s an unintentional omission? There are many, many blogs online covering people’s opinions on horsemanship. There’s only one Fugly blog. The difference used to be that this blog tried to make a difference in the lives of real horses, and sometimes succeeded, due to a very vocal readership that tended to attract media coverage. Those are some big shoes to step into, but I hope you’re going to try. Best of luck.
Thanks! We definitely plan on addressing animal welfare issues and stories. We just don’t intend to have that be the sole focus of the blog.
All the rants about rescues turned me away from Fugly for a while, I am a soulless bitch that doesn’t care, using this blog as an outlet to call attention by emailing and calling local officials, isn’t what I think FHOD is all about. Its about horses that are so unfortunate in their looks that they are great fun to laugh at and pray that they are gelded and to learn from it, not because they are so thin they can be used as an anatomy lesson for the skeletal system of a horse.
Welcome! I read your other blog last night, well some of it, and think you will be a great addition to Fugly Horse….
Welcome aboard! It will be revitalizing to have some fresh blood running FHOTH.
Are you planning to post some of the good/bad blog samples? It might be fun to see what people are writing about.
Can’t wait to read your next blog!
Depending on who gives us permission to use their submissions we might! If we get enough to be worthwhile then definitely, but honestly, there weren’t any truly horrific ones (unfortunately, if you ask us).
You have full permission to use mine…it’s not like I can sell it to somebody else as it was very much written for this blog
. Go to town. Mock away.
welcome and I look forward to seeing what you all have to offer
Dear Snugly Bitches,
I wanted to try that out because I doubt I’ll ever have a reason to write hate mail. I’ve been catching up on your other blog and I’m excited to see what you guys do here! I also think it would be fun to see the good, the bad, and the ugly of the other submissions
haha see it’s fun right?!
Dear Snugly Bitches,
Just kidding. Welcome and congrats! You sound like a great fit for the spirit of this blog. I’m looking forward to reading.
lol I think we may have started something with that… oh well! Thanks for the welcome! Hopefully we don’t disappoint (starts biting nails…) eep!
Welcome!! After avidly following this blog and submitting an entry to Mugs, I finally joined the blog
Very excited to see what y’all have in store for us. And I second the thought on posting some of the sucky blog entries. hehe.
Dear Snugly Bitches,
welcome over here. I have also read your other blog for a while. Look forward to seeing where you’ll be going over here.
Welcome to FHOTD, Snugly! Best of luck with the blog (and its readership), I look forward to have a frequent dose of Fugly (Snugly) again.
Thanks! I have a feeling we may need the extra luck with the readership
They are significantly more, shall we say “opinionated”, than those over at SR!
Dear Snugly and Snarkly,
Yay!
Have kinda been going through withdrawels…ain’t pretty.
Welcome! I am very much looking forward to getttng back to the “old school” Fugly… conformation critiques and bad craigslist ads included! Happy writing.
Honored to meet you! I look forward to reading.
Welcome snugly wenches!
I don’t comment a lot, but I read the blog regularly.
Oh, and get that noseband back on that bridle….and make sure it’s cranked down for proper dressage competition (J/k)
Welcome to the hot seat ladies!!! Lol. I look forward to seeing what you have to offer! I do have one request, is there anyway we could make this blog Safari friendly? I can’t seem to post my comments from my mac and I have to wait till I get to work and do things from internet explorer which is a total pain in the butt! Especially when I have something good to say right in the moment and then forget it in the morning. :/ The down fall of a post prego brain. Your memory doesn’t seem to come back in full even after the baby is born. lol
ride_like_the_wind: Just download Firefox. You could also download IE for Mac….but I really don’t recommend it. IE is just….awful. You should be able to do anything with Safari anyway, as long as it’s up to date and flash is up to date as well.
Thanks Fennec! I’ve updated everything but my flash player on this thing. lmao. I’m so used to running through the motions of fixing everyones PCs at work and their computer issues I forget the simplest things on my own. WHY didn’t I think of that?! lol. Thanks guys! I feel like a total mac noob!!!
r-l-t-w: I have Firefox on my mac, and as you see, no problems at all about posting. (I also hate the mac ‘Mail”, and use Entourage from the Microsoft suite for mac.
I’m on Safari and have no problems, maybe just make sure you have the latest version and your flash is up to date.
I also run on a mac (why is it that I just think mac and cheese when I see that?) and have had great luck with chrome, the browser by google. Firefox and safari likes to crash on me when I play netflix and try to multi task.
Thanks for you help ya’ll though Firefox or IE will never be downloaded onto my mac. I hate both of them!! They have never worked for me in the past and crash the most. Not to mention I feel I find the most viruses through them. *sigh* but I got everything updated last night and its working great! Though now i’m hoping santa is bringing me OX S Lion for Xmas!!! *crossing fingers* yes I know, I’m a total nerd…
Dear Snugly Bitches -
(heehee, that’s just TOO much fun to write) WELCOME. I look forward to reading your posts. I’ve yet to read a little at your other blog, but I’ve bookmarked it and will check it out. So far may I say that I’m getting a kick out of your “tone” and comments. See ya ’round!
Why thank you! We’re really looking forward to getting things going here and excited for the heated discussions we’re sure will be coming!
Deat Snugly bitches,
Can I start every comment with this now??? Even if it’s not a hate comment?? Because it’s just waaaaaaaaaay too much fun!!
Btw, can you guys figure out why wordpress is being a bitch about letting me log in with my FB password? I don’t want to be anonymous dammit! (This is Monica, btw)
Welcome guys! I enjoyed Fugly blog as long as it was focused on the HORSES. I enjoyed Mugly because she has a lot of the same ideas!
I read your guys blog and think you guys will do great! So welcome and I look forward to reading what you have to say (and driving my husband nuts as I yell at the computer screen hehe)
Dear Snugly bitches,
Welcome! I’ve been following Snarky Rider for a while and enjoying it, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you can do here. As ride_like_the_wind said, welcome to the hot seat. Should be fun!
I am glad the blog has changed hands. I took a peek just today and saw the news. I stopped reading the blog on the first new post after Kathy left. When she stated that “Mustangs should be eradicated”. That was it for me. It was like saying “Let’s kill all the polar bears, then we won’t have to worry about protecting them”. Welcome Snugly
Sounds Awesome!
This is sounding like fun ! Having had a squiz at Snarkyrider am looking forward to being really entertained. Wine, popcorn ….. ready to go. Cheers.
Welcome, Snugly & Snarkly!
When I read Mugly’s announcement, I promptly went over to SR and read some of your posts to get a feel for your style, and I absolutely love it! I am definitely looking forward to seeing what you two bring to this blog, and I’m sure that this blog will continue to be one of my favourite corners of the internet with you two in charge. Who knows, maybe I’ll even venture to write a submission or two.
Welcome, good luck, and thanks in advance for all of the new information and good laughs.
I have a question – is there a danger in having “plenty” of the same father in a horse’s lineage? Such as, a horse with the same grandfather and father? I see it often when looking at horse pedigrees, and figured the horse would be missed a few teeth or gained an extra ear, but apparently having the same grandfather on both sides is what people want?
also – I found this eyesore of a breeding facility across town from me. I don’t know if it’s my place or not to tell them of the dangers of breeding N/H and H/H horses, and if I should mention the poor conformation of their horses.
http://oakbrookfarm.net/Home_Page.html
Of all the things to find wrong with a breeding facility, this is one you pick? No, it is not your place to “inform” them as they certainly seem to know exactly what they are doing. Their horses have the conformation of AQHA halter horses and, whether you like that or not, those of us that do enjoy halter horses find that build VERY attractive. Their NH mares are not bred to their NH stallion but rather to “Hottest Coolest” who is NN. Whether you agree with breeding HYPP positive horses or not, the folks who own this facility, IMO, do not need someone telling them their horses have “poor conformation” or that they need not be breeding HYPP.
What you mentioned regarding pedigree is line breeding. It is very popular and has its pros and cons. When you line breed, you concentrate the good AND the bad…..it can go either way!
Please, whether you agree with this farm’s program or not, there are far more pressing places you could direct your attention. If that is what an eyesore looks like near you, perhaps you should come visit up my way.
Oak Brook Farm — This is a nice farm website in many ways. The pictures are of good quality. Don’t see a lot of trash hanging around. The horses are shiny and in good weight, they look neat, their hooves are trimmed. They are “pretty”. Too bad so many of them will be crippled or dead by the age of six. Too bad so many of them carry a deadly genetic disease. People, please correct me if I am wrong, but don’t a good proportion of N/H horses actually have attacks? They are not only carriers — they are diseased. They may or may not have an attack at any time. Oh, and what do they do with the H/H foals that are produced?
I am not against N/H horses who are already here, but it is wrong to deliberately create more. What is the future of the breed if this continues? Of course the future of the individual horse — well, I promised myself I wouldn’t get too snarky, so I won’t go there.
The heavy QH look is not my thing, but I actually like that there are different types out there. But regardless of type, we have a responsibility to the animals we produce. The first responsibility is that the animal has some kind of future. It must be sound to do at least the basic things that we require of horses. Deliberately breed for a large body with straight shoulder, upright pasterns and small feet, and you are basically breeding for navicular, and a life of misery for the animal and for whomever may own it in the future. As the breeder, that is what you have chosen.
why are you so angry?
By no means am I “angry” (the dangers of the typed word versus spoken). I haven’t a clue who the folks are whose website you brought up. Reread what you wrote initially. “Eyesore of a breeding facility” is the term you used. What is the eyesore? Fat and slick horses? Proper fencing? I am just at a loss. It is also readily apparent to me and to anyone who is familiar with AQHA horses (particularly halter horses) that these people know what they are doing. They are using some of the very best breeding in the industry today. Their horses, while perhaps more muscled, more straight shouldered, more posty-hocked than non-halter folks like, are a far far cry from the obscenities we do see in the halter ring. It appears that a good many of those horses could have a career under saddle if the owner chose to. They are of reasonable build and type – not so freakish that they are utterly useless beyond their brief halter careers. These folks certainly don’t need someone to “educate” them about HYPP. Based upon the breeding selections they have made, they are apparently well-versed in it.
I am not going to engage in an HYPP debate as that has been done literally to death on the web and there is no winner. Whether you are against the breeding of a positive horse or not, it is done very regularly in halter programs around the country, and tens of thousands of HYPP positive horses are well-managed by their owners who understand this disease. (My own disclaimer – I DON’T own any HYPP pos horses – I have no dog in this fight)
I felt compelled to respond to you as I cannot imagine asking someone to clarify line breeding in one paragraph and then in the next asking if you should go and “educate” these breeders who obviously are a bit more versed in the world of horse breeding than you are. You may not have meant it to come across that way but that is exactly how I read it.
I agree with redkstable about Oakbrook Farm.
That type of breeding just isn’t my cup of tea and I do think there are a fair number of posty legged J-LO asses shown, BUT the horses are fat, alert, and have decent fencing and shelter – I’ll be saving my energy for far more worthwhile targets.
As for the blog’s changing of the guard,…Well…I think it’s a bit like Christmas came early
LONG LIVE THE SNARK!!
Oh my God. Is it normal for breeders to breed that many N/H’s ??????
What the fuck do they think will happen?
OMG, are you people serious? It’s okay to breed N/H horses, because that’s what people do? Get educated, folks. If nothing else, take a really GOOD look at those horses on that website. Every SINGLE one of them is crippled or close to crippled. All of them are down hill to the point of being affected in stance and movement (as their compensating muscling shows). The babies in their photos are so over in the joints that they are guaranteed to have arthritis. There is no listing for HYPP status on the foals, which is their polite way of trying to ignore the fact that they are creating more HYPP horses.
This is all kinds of wrong, and having a pretty fence and a pasture of grass doesn’t make it right. Seriously, if these were beef cattle (and I daresay they ARE in some ways) then people would be pointing at those pasterns and knees and other issues and completely dissing on the farm. Nothing makes me angrier than seeing people who show up and say that it is okay to breed N/H horses that are poorly conformed just because that’s what ‘halter’ is like.
And one more thing– those horses will never ride competitively. Ever. In fact, most of them won’t be competitive in halter, even. Their stallion has nothing listed on his page– never shown? The link to where he is standing is broken, which is a polite internet way of saying “It Ain’t Gumz Farm, boyos!” They quite simply have done nothing other than to pick up some N/H horses for pennies, then try to market the results as ‘halter, English and Western riding horses.” I wonder if they even make any effort to educate clients about the fact that their horses could drop dead pretty well any day?
And here we go…..we will need to add reading comprehension to the list of things we can talk about….right next to grammar. Charm, please find the sentence written in this discussion where one of us said “Its ok to breed HYPP horses because that’s what people do.” When you find it, let me know. Nobody said that. It was stated that it is done regularly among halter breeders. Whether you like that or not doesn’t change it – that is a cold hard fact. You obviously don’t care for halter horses and that is fine. However, you jumped the gun a little and now are posting misinformation.
Their stallion has an ROM listed – you don’t get an ROM without showing. It is listed right under his HYPP N/H status so I’m not quite sure how you missed it. Yes, the link is broken – that of course means a conspiracy. There couldn’t possibly be a reasonable explanation. They are hardly peddling their mediocre horses to the unsuspecting public (perhaps you also missed the HYPP status of each horse being listed). Each foal has already been shown and/or is futurity nominated. The “for sale” horses have an appropriate degree of training for their age. They are incentive funded. They are all very well-bred. THIS is what people are up in arms over? Yes, those horses absolutely could drop dead – so could mine….so could yours…..so could ANY horse. That argument is moot.
In addition, I can’t believe veterinary facilities are not beating down your door for you to diagnose the “degree of crippled” a horse is based upon a single view photo with the horse not set up squarely. You hate their build – we get it. You have absolutely no idea how sound any of those horses are. I always get a kick out of people who think halter horses can’t ride and compete. They do, downhill with big J-Lo butts and all!
I know better than to post here, really I do. However, I could not help but respond when someone makes a statement indicating they know next to nothing about breeding horses then, in the next breath, wonders aloud if they should go and “inform” these obviously uneducated breeders about their horses’ “poor conformation” and the dangers of breeding HYPP. The term for that is “self-righteous”. I see it continuously from keyboard experts who, when questioned, reveal they don’t really know a whole heck of a lot about the thing they are voicing their opinion on. I know next to nothing about jumping therefore, you will not see my opinions on the matter! Better to be quiet and be thought a fool than speak up and prove it.
I’ll say it again. With the abundance of people posting horses for sale on the net these days, I cannot believe that this particular farm is what concerns people. Holy crap. Find a farm who neglects their animals and focus your efforts there.
RKS,
Excellent critique, realistic/valid observations and intelligent writing. Please keep writing.
Well, even a quick 15 second glance turned up GLARING conformation faults on nearly every horse on that site. As in, OMG that horse is DOOMED.
I feel that way whenever I see the uber-bred Kid Clu type AQHA halter steers. Yes, some of them get to live out their lives doing lead-n-feed, and some of them turn out to be OK riding horses, but they’re certainly not bred with an eye to structural longevity. They’re like McMansions: Big, pretty in a tacky/shiny way if you like that kind of thing, but ultimately doomed to an existence of excessive maintenance and untimely demolition.
Just because a place looks “pretty” and the horses are well-fed, doesn’t mean they’re breeding RIGHT, even if they’re breeding TRENDY.
Also, no one has yet pointed out that their “very nice” website uses COMIC SANS.
Which immediately halves credibility of most non-child-related businesses, right there.
Yes, cattypex, and your point that their font choice destroys their credibility only strengthens that side of this debate. Grasping much? I would continue this thread but I’m not really sure what the point is. When your take home message is that their font choice is damaging there really isn’t much to say.
She’s laughing. You know. Joking. I’m surprised you didn’t catch her comment about correct grammar and font, since you likewise were joking. Or snarking. Or whatever it was.
I’m glad you like the farm, the horses, etc… and I would suggest that you go there to breed in support of them. I’ve been far enough into the halter industry to know that an ROM, not identified, is like saying “Hey, we spent enough money on the horse to get points in something.” It’s not a superior, and it sure isn’t a World or Congress win. I’d love to know how many outside mares they breed to their stallion. Anyone with an AQHA membership? I’m sorry, the horses are mediocre at best, and in this case, they are mediocre and carrying a genetic disease that is a ticking time bomb.
Mind you, my horses are only mediocre– but I don’t pretend they are otherwise.
Dude, apparently you have missed the fact that fully 13.273% of the internet is filled with anti-Comic Sans stuff, ranging from legitimate designerly critique to hilarious videos. *snort*
Lighten up!!!!!!
I still think there’s something seriously bad going on inside that palomino mare’s hooves.
And if you’re promoting halter horses, you could at least make sure the photos you put up for the world to scrutinize to decide if they want to spend $$$ on YOUR horses and their progeny should be, like, stood up properly for halter, even the broodies. It doesn’t take a whole lot of time or energy to train a stock horse to set up for halter.
You know, it’s one thing to have an unridable horse because he’s old and somewhat frail, or has suffered an injury or illness and you’ve decided to keep him around as a big pet. For some reason, I get very upset by people’s intentionally breeding horses ONLY for halter. I dunno, it’s like Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari in Ferris Bueller….. just a sad and dumb thing.
The facility itself looks decent, and that’s what makes a contrast to the horror show of bad bad bad conformation. I gasped at the legs and ankles. This is “breeding for lameness.” That first palomino broodmare literally has toothpicks for front legs. These are the kind of Fuglies I’d expect to see in a rusted barbed wire fence junkyard, not this pretty facility. Not much you can do, except talk about it on forums. Or become a QH judge, and refuse to even look at these poor animals in the ring.
I have a mac and you need firefox!!
I use Firefox on one of my pcs and it won’t let me log into this site to post.
I really and truly hope the comment moderation will be reasonable. I recently left a comment for Mugly noting that she’d made a spelling error. My post was polite and profanity free and it was still not approved for posting. More annoyingly, the spelling was never corrected! That lack of accountability has a negative impact on readers and is pretty silly and immature, IMO. Here’s hoping you guys take a different approach.
We believe in posting pretty much every comment made – even if it’s to tell us what a horrible job we’re doing. -and when that happens it warms our cold, dead hearts to have a reader or two jump to our defense
If you do see a spelling or grammatical error, please do tell us. It’s happened (more than we would like) where we’ve been preparing a post at 2 or 3am to be published at 7am so errors are unfortunately bound to occur. Either way, we’re open to constructive criticism and can’t really think of any comments we’ll be censoring, aside from the aforementioned gratuitous profanity. 
There have been some issues with the spam filter eating comments, that may have been what happened to yours. Mugly said repeatedly that she only censored the worst trolls, and that was maybe one comment/post tops. (I thought I’d gotten banned once when I wrote a comment poking at Mugly’s logic, and then suddenly none of my comments were getting through. Nope, spam filter. Mugly did something and I was able to post fine again after that.)
I’m one of those people, no matter who writes here, I’ll tune in every couple of days. I want to add to what I know, disagree or not. As far as a guest blog… I think I have a good one on recent “rescue” we took in. I can cover crazy colour breeding, Appaloosas, club feet, and basic foal care all in one.
Me too, me too! In my story, I’m fostering two appaloosas and when I contacted the rescue that we really needed to find them a home, I was told that they would put them down if I gave them back because they were dangerous. WTF? Seriously? I foster them, rehab them, work with them for NINE MONTHS, never once was I ever even threatened by one of them, and then they tell me they want to kill them?
Needless to say, I am two horses richer and the rescue is one foster home poorer.
Ooooh, exciting! I’ll look forward to seeing more regular updates. Mostly because then I don’t have to play the “find the new comment” game with the last post – you know, yesterday there were 142 comments, today it’s 189, and they might have been added anywhere on the page…. can anything be done about that? I can’t be the only one who is put off reading the comments because there’s no easy way to check the latest ones!
I had something that I felt should have been added to the noseband discussion but never bothered to post because I figured someone else would have mentioned it in 200+ comments or whatever, but people keep saying on here that they now ride without one, and I’m starting to think I’m the only one who has ever heard this (which probably means it’s wrong – LOL!) so just let me get this off my chest, ok?
Apparently, nosebands were invented as a safety feature. No, not to strap the horse’s mouth shut so you can stay in control in a crisis, but for the horse’s sake. Imagine you’re out hunting, or going cross country, or doing anything really that involves going across tricky terrain at speed. You have a bad shot at a solid obstacle (or hell, the horse just happens to get his front legs in a knot), and you have one of those nasty falls where the horse hits the ground head first. You may well be The World’s Most Balanced Rider, riding The World’s Best Trained Horse, but if you’re swinging from the reins with all your bodyweight as you’re both going down, that horse is going to open his mouth, right? So he’s going to hit the dirt face first, with his mouth gaping…. not a pretty image, is it? There are a lot of serious injuries a horse can come back from, but a broken jaw is not one of them. The solution to the problem was a loosely fitted strap around the horse’s nose, enough to stop the horse opening his mouth wide, not tight enough to interfere with the horse’s normal jaw movement… ta-dah! The cavesson noseband is born.
On another note, that place monday mentioned above? Check out the pictures of the stallion…. it looks like one of those Breyer models. One of the uglier ones. What’s wrong with his eyes?
There is. Subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll receive the comments in your newsreader in order…that’s how I do it.
I am so looking forward to your blog posts! I love the tone for your Snarky Rider blog and think you will be a great fit here. I love how you went back and corrected your submission in SR! LOL!
Welcome, and here’s to a new era of Fugly – I pop in every day, and it would be good to see it getting back to where it was IYKWIM
I think you guys are going to do a fantastic job! Your other blog is great, and you seem like a bold and spunky team with extensive knowledge and passion. I look forward to your upcoming posts. Since you guys have welcomed suggestions, I’d like to toss out a few potential topics that haven’t been mentioned yet.
1. History and of the English language, and how it has evolved over centuries
2. Comparisons of regional dialects and the impact that they have on the future of the English language
3. Common writing errors due to phonetics (e.g. when people write “should of” instead of “should have” – my personal pet peeve!)
….Just to be clear, this blog is about linguistics now, right? I’m just assuming, because so many people keep bringing up spelling and grammar…. but you might want to change the name, because some of the readers might not be as quick-minded as I am (they can’t help it – it’s so sad) and they’re going to think we’re still talking about horses.
Rollkursucks: Excellent post!
LOL! We’ll get right on that
I once forgot to put a space in between “a lot” and was promtly spanked. I still break out in a sweat if I use it in a sentence. I think I may have misspelled a word in my previous post. Oh well. Some days the word “was” looks funny, or whatever word it is for that particular day. Old brain synapses fire differently.
Welcome Snuglies! Looking forward to my snarky fix
If YOU are breeding horses with alot of the same names on both sides of the pedigree, its all line-breeding. When SOMEONE ELSE is doing it, its call in-breeding. Just a little “breeding shed” humor.
Tis the season to be jolly…falalalalalalalala
Ladies acting like a molly…. Falalalalalalalala
Now we don our claws and bitch words
Falalalalalalalala
Or a cat fight now commencing
Falalalalalalalala
Welcome! This is going to be fun.
Snugs & Snarks, welcome aboard. I’m thrilled to bits you’re taking the reins on FHOTD. This will be a fun ride!
Snug & Snark,
Welcome, welcome. Not just so far so good, but great–love your “attitude” and enticing agenda on intro. I was really afraid circular writing and feigning tough disguised as expertise would choose more of the same. Seems I was wrong, happily looking forward to more and in the interim will check out your other site also.
Just a minor snark now. FYI for everybody, as snark goes both ways, the spin continues at the other site where we’ve been deemed too stupid to catch the point of the writing. Check it out, more excuses and wannabe professionalism. I hope Mugly (though she now disdains the title) sticks to stories. Just sayin. . .
Hi!
Hey, I have been reading fuglyblog for I dont know how long, and this is the first time ive ever commented. I wanted to to say I love the articles here. The angles and ways things/horses are described are just gold. I look forthoroughbreds for sale which are outstanding individuals, usually young horses. I love training them into amazing mature thoroughbred horses. Anyway, I wanted to just say hello, and keep up the great work, ill comment more from this day onwards. Kind regards, Barry