Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for October 03, 2009

I’d have said, “short nose” but that’s not what the picture shows. I need some help here.

No neck.

Use your lack of a neck to your advantage, join the WWF!

ruthhowald I think Ray C could have figured that out by looking at the picture. It seems pretty evident by the drawing.

it’s because he can’t go ” neck and neck” with the other horse

eardroppings: I’m a lot dumber than you give me credit for. I looked at the picture and tried to figure out why the horse was shorter, but for some reason I couldn’t tell. It’s obvious now. This is the last time I comment before finishing my first cup of coffee.

Ray C, I only read the comments section because I didn’t get it either.

Maybe we should both switch to something less challenging. ;-)

Same here, had to read the comments to understand what exactly it was that I was seeing (yes, I just woke up too). Could that eardroppings person be just another message board troll?

I have a similar problem. Although I don’t enter many races, I do have a hard time finding a shirt that I can button the neck on.

I was looking at the noses too - thought of the phrase “win by a nose”

Count me in as needing some help. “Wins by a nose!” never by a neck. Sure they can be neck and neck but never mentioned in the win. Sorry, he should have done something with the nose. NOT funny today.

This is late, so most of you probably won’t see it, but I don’t think it’s a “neck and neck” joke. Maybe it’s just that his neck is short and so he can’t stretch to hit the finish line first. So, why isn’t the expression “nose and nose” instead of “neck and neck”? That would make more sense.

He doesn’t win races because the other horses necks are longer and thus they cross the finish line. It isn’t a joke based on “neck and neck” or “wins by a nose” It’s simply the idea that a longer horse (in this case because he has a longer neck) will win races. It’s not about a particular idiom.