Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for September 20, 2018

They said that it couldn’t be done

So he grinned and went right to it

He tackled that thing that couldn’t be done

And by gosh, he couldn’t do it!

Relax. You’ve got three more.

If only he had listened to them sooner.

“They” say lots of stuff can’t be done. But about one in a million attempts at such a thing actually succeeds and then the fool who did it becomes a genius.

Sometimes you don’t know what your limits are till you exceed them…

Kicked a bad habit?

Did ‘they’ hold your beer while you tried it?

Horace is why we have Darwin Awards!

…but I got a Darwin Award nomination

I wonder if the impossible thing involved riding downhill—and/or trying to jump something—in his shopping cart, wearing a motorcycle (or perhaps American football) helmet? Melody has photographed these “stunts for the ages” before—she once ‘broke the fourth wall’ and looked at the audience with a “This sentence is accurate in more ways than one” expression, while reading a line in the digital camera’s instructions that read, “Make sure your subject isn’t too bright.” :-)

“It’s just a scratch!”

Good thing he’s not the kind of horse to get shot for breaking a leg.

Learning from a mistake…

Cast for the play.

He broke his foot trying to square a circle!

I’m 65 years old. The last time I jumped was about ten years ago. Spent the next six weeks with my right leg in a cast. I don’t do much jumping any more.