If It Weren't For My Horse...
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If It Weren't For My Horse...I wouldn't have spent 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.
The White Album
From which this all stems
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Lewis Black presents the issue that is eating at our brains...If it weren't for my horse...
Hear it unfold
If It Weren't For My Horse...If It Weren't For My Horse...
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My Horse Theories
Four Possible Meanings of the Statement
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)
Lewis Black Items
If it weren't for my horse....
From The White Album by Lewis Black
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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Alternate Theories
What did it mean?
Do you have any alternate theories for this horse scenario? or do you just want to say 'Hi'?
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Semirhage
Aug 22, 2011 @ 2:43 pm | delete
- My money is on theory #3.
They should make a movie.
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Upthorn
Jan 30, 2011 @ 4:21 am | delete
- I suspect that she went to college to learn horse training.
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Cynthia Southern
May 11, 2010 @ 4:00 pm | delete
- My theory is that she sold a prized horse at a stock show and used that money to pay for one year of college but had no way to pay for more years of college. It of course doesn't mention that she didn't complete the other three years. The quote only mentions one year of college. Perhaps it was a college degree that took a year such as beauty or cooking college?..who knows??Maybe she did a two or four year degree and found a way to pay for those other three years?perhaps because of a prized llama, bull or lamb
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Bob Pahn
Mar 19, 2010 @ 9:46 pm | delete
- Mr black I am voting for you for president of the united states. why? you are the only person that I have heard in a long time that tells the truth and know what hes talking about and doesnt have his head up his own ass.
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Super8Society
Mar 8, 2010 @ 12:00 pm | delete
- For years I wondered if she was referring to heroin... as in - if I didn't have that heroin to take the edge off I wouldn't have made it through college.
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Lizzy
Jan 5, 2010 @ 6:30 pm | delete
- Maybe her parents only let her continue to ride her horse if she went to college. But after one year, she decided college was just too much of a pain.
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CP
Oct 8, 2009 @ 10:03 pm | delete
- I'm allergic to horses...
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Miss Katonic
Sep 25, 2009 @ 2:29 am | in reply to Adam | delete
- Adam, if she's around the right age -- was in her mid-twenties in the late '90s -- you should ask your sister to email Lewis Black to explain.
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Michael Clower
Sep 17, 2009 @ 11:49 pm | delete
- I got about halfway down the list of comments and my nose started to bleed a little... I doubt you'll listen but if you happen to read this and it's not too late, STOP READING!
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Adam
Sep 3, 2009 @ 7:18 pm | delete
- I think that story is about my older sister... she was like 15 when our parents got her a horse (we moved to country a little before that) and she had this riding instructor that she thought was really hot, and he was a college student, and they kinda had this thing goin... so she went to his college and tried dating him, but it didnt work out and she hated college, so she dropped out after a year. She used to joke about never having gone to college if my parents hadnt gotten her that horse, so I dunno... mebbe thats where Louis Black heard it from, she wouldve been about the right age. Anyway I didnt know it had become this big thing, and then someone said it to me the otehr day, and I found this on here. Go figure.
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Treasures-By-Brenda
May 26, 2009 @ 3:09 pm | delete
- If it weren't for my horse...interesting!
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BusyQueen
Feb 13, 2009 @ 11:53 am | delete
- It's well done. 5 *****'s love the laughs!
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Sep 3, 2008 @ 10:25 pm | delete
- 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%!
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