The term “easy” seems to be used an awful lot, when people are handling dangerous horses.
When my mom is handling one of her mules, I can hear her say “easy” “EASY” in a strong and forceful tone. A “command” if anything.
And well, the horse probably doesn’t really know much English, so it’s for the benefit of the rider more than anything else.
Me, I don’t say “easy” in these situations; I call it how it is, and say “danger.” “Danger 15.” “Danger 27.” DANGER 88!” And so on.
I feel that it’s best to be honest in situations where a wild animal is about to trample you to a painful end.
Fair?
- Daniel
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Danger 27. That’s hilarious.
Hilarious until it hits you in the face! Ask my buddy Dom. To this day he wishes I used the danger rating system Daniel uses… and he reminds me every day!
I handle it in a similar fashion, but my way involves a considerable number of obscenities and “colorful metaphors” being lobbed about…
Let me put it this way, I can boil the paint off the trunklid of a car at twenty yards and have done so on quite a few occasions.
Obscene language aside, words that are slung about that have lost any measure are “expert” and “gourmet”. I knew a fellow that said an ex-pert is just a former pert…
How about “as easy as pi”?
I always maintained that an expert was “Someone that knew more and more and less and less until they knew everything about absolutely nothing”.