If It Weren't For My Horse...

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If It Weren't For My Horse...I wouldn't have spend that year in college.

Starting out as a simple phrase uttered by some random woman, this phrase entered the ears of Lewis Black. It then nearly killed him by eating away at his brain. The only way in which he could save himself, was to offer up this sentence for the rest of us. It now eats away a tiny bit at all of our brains. This is the place to put forth your theory and help get this puzzler out of your head.

The phrase IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY HORSE has become a part of pop culture. This phrase is used for anything that is so dumb, it defies any rational reasoning.

Hear it unfold 

Listen to Lewis Black describe the issue at hand. I apologize for having to watch these anime things while you listen, but you can just feel free to scroll down while your hear the clip.

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The White Album 

The White Album is Lewis Black's first album, recorded in 1999 at Laugh Lines Comedy Club in Madison, Wisconsin and released on June 1 2000.

The cover and title is a reference to the album The Beatles (also commonly referred to as The White Album).

The White Album 

From which this all stems

The White Album

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On this comedy CD, Lewis Black presents the issue that is eating at our brains...If it weren't for my horse...

My Theories 

Four Possible Meanings of the Statement

THEORY #1
The girl was a rider who won prizes in competitions giving her enough money for college for one year.

THEORY #2
The girl was a gambler. She bet a bunch of money on a horse and won enough to pay tuition for one year.

THEORY #3
The girl was an out of control teen, but this kind gentle horse was able to calm her down and get her back on track. So she went to college. My theory goes on...since she didn't have the horse in college, she became out of control again and dropped out after a year).

THEORY #4
She actually rode the horse to college. (Crappy theory...I know...but it keeps coming up)

If it weren't for my horse.... 

From The White Album by Lewis Black

Transcript of the story of a brain aneurysm causing sentence:

When from behind me, a woman of 25 uttered the dumbest thing I'd ever heard in my life ... She said, 'If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.'

I'll repeat that. I'll repeat that because that's the kind of sentence that when you hear it, your brain comes to a screeching halt. And the left hand side of the brain looks at the right hand side and goes, 'It's dark in here, and we may die.' She said, 'If it weren't for my horse...' as in, giddy up, giddy up, let's go - 'I wouldn't have spent that year in college,' a degree-granting institution.

Don't! Don't think about that sentence for more than three minutes, or blood'll shoot out your nose. The American medical profession doesn't know why we get an aneurysm. It's when a blood vessel bursts in our head for no apparent reason. There's a reason.

You're at the mall one day, and somebody over there says the dumbest thing you've ever heard and it goes in your ear. So you turn around to see if your friends heard it, cause if your friends heard it, and you can talk about what the jackass said, then it'll be gone. But your friends are over here, pretending they're gonna buy a cellular phone, and they're not gonna buy a cellular phone, because they don't even understand how the rate structure works. So you turn back, to find the person who said it, because if you can ask 'em a question like, 'WHAT THE @*#! ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?!' then it'll go away. But they're gone.

And now those words are in your head. And those words don't go away. Cause the way I see it, 7% of our brains functions all the time, because 99% of everything that happens is the same old stuff. We get it. All right. Move on. Get it. Right.

But every so often, somethin' like that happens: 'If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.' So your brain goes, 'LET'S FIGURE IT OUT! Son of a bitch! I wonder what that's about!' I wonder, was she riding the horse to school? No, she wouldn't be riding the horse to school. Maybe it was a polo pony; she had a polo pony scholarship. Maybe she sold the horse and that's how she - she was betting on the horse! WHAT THE @*#! ?!! And then you realize that anybody who went to college would never say anything that stupid in public. And as soon as you have that thought, your eyes close and the next morning they find you dead in your bathroom.

Lewis Black Links 

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Lewis Black 

Niles? Oh that's so sad.

Lewis Niles Black (born August 30 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosts Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' delivering his ?Back in Black? commentary segment. When not on the road performing, he resides in Manhattan and also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, N.C..

Alternate Theories 

What did it mean?

Do you have any alternate theories for this horse scenario? or do you just want to say 'Hi'?

Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...

If it weren't for my horse...interesting!

ReplyPosted May 26, 2009

BusyQueen wrote...

It's well done. 5 *****'s love the laughs!

ReplyPosted February 13, 2009

Lensmaster

Lewis Black is one of my favorite stand-up comedians! He was so cool that I even had some of his pics on my personal checks! I got the idea from a friend who had his own set of Christian checks with holy images that he had chosen! anyway, thanks for featuring Mr. Black! He' really a total stand-up comedian 100%!

ReplyPosted September 03, 2008

Lensmaster

Fab wrote

She probably did porn, specifically beastiality, which helped her pay for college.

Reply Posted August 16, 2008

Lensmaster

Bex wrote

Maybe she was on the school's equestrian team on scholarship? I knew a few girls in college that were there on scholarship for equestrianism, and actually won nationals...

Reply Posted January 06, 2008

Taslo wrote...

I like your alternative theories. Really great style.
My Lens

ReplyPosted October 13, 2007

Lensmaster

Shaun wrote

Maybe the horse was a donkey...and she worked down in Laredo for a summer

Reply Posted August 29, 2007

Lensmaster

Allison wrote

MAYBE,the girl was rich and they had horses and ranches and what not.and she fell in love with that horse.the family soon got down on their luck and are forced to sell the horse to pay off debts.so the girl works her way through college to a great career and earns enough money to buy back the horse

Reply Posted July 03, 2007

Shar wrote...

I love your stuff! Shar

ReplyPosted June 26, 2007

kab wrote...

well Jason and Coma succussfully came up with a disturbing theory that did not come to my mind (i am proud to say).

ReplyPosted June 14, 2007

 
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Oh, crap. 

Blood is shooting out of my nose.