Thanks Grace for sending this one in!
Are you ready? Sitting down? Not drinking anything? Ok… here goes…
Hello, this is my lovely horse legacy. He has been in my family for 5 years. He truly is a wonderful creature. At night, his mane glows like the brightest of juptiers moons. It is what we in the horse world call “magical”. I give him daily protein shakes to make sure he countinues to grow big and strong. I don’t know when he’ll stop growing, he’ll probably countinue to until his time comes. Please be prepared to accommodate a horse the size of a small tank if you plan on keeping him for more then a month. I feed him a strict diet of cucumbers and horseradish. Some people say that it’s sick to feed a horse horseradish, but sense horse radish doesn’t actually have horse in it, I’m sure it’s ok.
800 OBO if you have any albino chickens we may be able to negotiate. Or 800 dollars worth of Fred Meyers gift cards so I can countinue to buy horseradish for my other horse.
Call xxx-xxx-xxxx to contact me. My name is [You can see it on the ad if you really want to know]. In order to ensure your not spam, please say “you have a magnificent stead on your hands I’d like to obtain. I’m pretty sure no telephone operator from overseas can say that correctly.
I LOVE that we know the horse is “magical” but not his breed, height, or training. I mean, “size of a small tank” only tells you so much!
Why the horseradish and cucumber diet? The protein shakes are obvious. A growing tank needs its protein, after all, but does horseradish have any nutritional value? -I honestly have no idea, don’t eat the stuff.
Oh Craigslist, you’ve done it again! lol
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I can’t really think for a second that this one is actually real. Maybe somebody’s aiming to be on Best of Craigslist?
I’m digging the Old Spice Guy shoutout in the picture.
Pretty funny ad.
(If you haven’t seen the recent Old Spice commercial with the hawks, I highly suggest youtubing it.
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I think he’s just trying to get our attention with humor. If he’d just used the photo, I’d have giggled, but his complete lack of actual details about the horse just made me pull a brain muscle rolling my eyes really hard.
Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’, keep those noobs rollin’, trolin’, trollin’, trollin’, Old Spice!
WTF? Lmao
I’m on a horse.
I vaguely remember this stuff as quotes from a book, or movie.
That is one good looking horse to be eating cucumbers,horseradish, and protein shakes. Maybe I should try that diet…..think I will become built like a small tank……
Due to the fact this is in Alaska it’s completely possible it’s totally legit. I’ve seen stranger from the folks who think spray painting “free” on a horse is a type of advertising.
Glad you enjoyed my little find.
Hah, that picture is priceless!
That’s CLEARLY a fake post, kids. Probably from someone who doesn’t even have a horse and was just screwing around to make themselves and others laugh. I do it often with normal appliances that I’m trying to sell. I’m willing to bet there is NO horse, so nobody needs to be up in arms about how they’re lacking detail. You know how we know it isn’t a screw up posting a sales ad for a real horse? The spelling and grammer. That post my friends was written by someone with a brain cell.
Sorry I thought the spelling and grammar were pretty awful tbh. He has a good vocabulary though, I’ll give him that, and the horse is actually rather nice!
That’s hilarious!!
LMAO
Maybe this guy should get into writing ad-copy??
I think he should write ads for Geiko…or for Flo:)
Would a horse eat horse radish or cucumbers?
what i see is a nice looking(from what i can see) arabian, i agree the guy must have a few brain cells at least, or his ad would have read something like this…eye hav en arebean kinda hors yo wood wont tu set en yer frunt yerd sew yur nayburs ken c hem he es louks lyk a hug tank he etz protyne shakse weth horzeradesh ,yew wood lek hem ! HEY my naybor has albino chickens,he gets $10.ea. for them, thatz aleot uf chykunz fur dat horz.!! caught alot of peoples eyes i bet!
Makes me think of Caligula…fed his horse the same diet as his other senators (the horse was made a senator). Which eventually starved the poor thing to death. Guy was so nuts didn’t realize horses won’t eat meat.
Allie –
There is no horse? Is that like ‘there is no spoon’? There is a clearly a horse in that photo!
Did it ever cross your mind that it isn’t their photo and there’s such a thing as Google images from which you can obtain photos that aren’t yours at all?
No? Didn’t think so.
There is no horse.
Hey look at this big steaming pile of fail :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2280261/Rachel-Zoe-takes-son-Skyler-pony-ride-dresses-stylish-hat-occasion.html
Why do parents think it’s acceptable to put a helmetless child on a pony, and then strap them on to the saddle to boot. At least the pony is being led by someone and looks as quiet as anything.
I just don’t get the dangerous practice of strapping little children on to horses- a much better option is to have a saddle with a handle on the front (as used by beach donkey rides) or the child could be held by a sidewalker (as used by the RDA).
Really Paula! I see nothing wrong with that photo, pony is being lead, child is secure and won’t slide sideways and parent is close at hand. Do you want your kid sticking his head into some skanky helmet that 100 s of other kids have worn!
Love that ad, had a great chuckle. Very cute horse, great way to get your ad noticed.
IMO I’d rather the kid have a helmet on, even if it’s been worn by 100s of other kids. Lice is better to deal with than brain injury. Otherwise, I agree the picture seems OK. I’ve never understood strapping kids in, but whatever.
No, strapping a child on to a horse is not acceptable. An old family friend who is a social worker told us about the how one of the many children of a drug addict’s family died when the moron of a mother bought a pony off a gypsy and then tied the child on on the pony for a ride. The pony spooked, with a tragic, yet predictable result.
SOLD!