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kpete

(72,022 posts) Fri Oct 27, 2017, 05:17 PM Oct 2017

10/29 Mike Luckovich: Remove it.

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10/29 Mike Luckovich: Remove it. (Original Post) kpete Oct 2017 OP

All four legs down keithbvadu2 Oct 2017 #1

Thanks so much for that information! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #2

I like it but we do need to consider updating our theoretical statues. Corvo Bianco Oct 2017 #3

keithbvadu2

(36,933 posts)

1. All four legs down

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 08:19 PM

Oct 2017

All four legs down

Generally, but not always::::

https://www.reference.com/world-view/meaning-horse-statue-its-legs-raised-332f6b36fc399426

"A horse with all four feet on the ground is said to represent a rider that was neither killed nor injured in battle but who died away from the battlefield of something unrelated to war or battle."

Pretty good symbolism for Trump who said that avoiding STDs was his personal VN.

Don't folks die from third stage syphilis?

With mental faculties declining?

Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)

2. Thanks so much for that information!

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 28, 2017, 02:51 AM

Oct 2017

I did not know that! Now I'm going to look at every statue I happen to see with new eyes. And I usually pay more attention to the horse than to the rider.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)

3. I like it but we do need to consider updating our theoretical statues.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2017, 02:23 PM

Oct 2017

White supremacists haven't ridden around on animals for a while. They kill them from golf carts.

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