Silver Lining

You want a cookie, but you don’t need it. But because YOU can’t eat it yourself, you don’t want anyone else to have it either (even though having them eat it has nothing to do with your own personal eating enjoyment.) Your just being selfish. Why can’t they have it if you can’t? Plus, you don’t really want THAT cookie anyway. You don’t even want a cookie. You just dont want anyone else to have it. How dumb is that?

For a horse, survival is their #1 priority. So, in order to survive, horses spook at a LOT of things and don’t calm down until they are convinced whatever they spooked at is harmless (the convincing process could take HOURS). Horses spook at…

dumpsters

trash cans

porta pottys

judges

umbrellas

blankets

at times other horses

flags

flowery fences

treew blowing in the wind

you

shadows (no joke, even their own)

reflections

papers

plastic bags

arena entrances

loudspeakers

dogs

little kids

ponies (a lot of horses are affraid of ponies. why? we may never know.)

dressage whips

jumping bats

show ground stalls

barn doors

cats

wow, that list could go on forever! on second thought, maybe I should have asked what are horses NOT afraid of…

ok, so i was attempting to learn something about grammar (because on the CSAP last year mine was awefull) and i hit a roadblock. the definition explaining how to USE a certain part of grammar is more confusing then the dictionary!!! here is whaty i got when searching for how to use a colon: (yes, i just used one, but i dont know if i should have at all!)

• syntactical-deductive: introduces the logical consequence, or effect, of a fact stated before
• syntactical-descriptive: introduces a description; in particular, explicits the elements of a set
• appositive: introduces a sentence with the role of apposition with respect to the previous one
• segmental: introduces a direct speech, in combination with quotation marks and dashes.

This last was once a common means of indicating an unmarked quotation on the same line (from the Fowlers’ grammar book, The King’s English)

Benjamin Franklin proclaimed the virtue of frugality:— A penny saved is a penny earned.

A colon may also be used for the following:

• introduction of a definition

A: the first letter in the Latin alphabet

Hypernym of a word: a word having a wider meaning than the given one; e.g. vehiclecar is a hypernym of

• separation of the chapter and the verse number(s) indication in many references to religious scriptures, and also epic poems; it was also used for chapter numbers in roman numerals

John 3:14–16 (or John iii:14–16) (cf. chapters and verses of the Bible)

The Qur’an, Sura 5:18

• separation when reporting time of the day (cf. ISO 8601)

The concert finished at 23:45

This file was last modified today at 11:15:05

• separation of a title and the corresponding subtitle

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

• separation of clauses in a periodic sentence

In English, a colon may be followed either by a capital letter or by a lower case letter, as the author prefers (unless a capital letter is necessary for a proper noun).^{[citation needed]} No particular consistency is required within a given text, although it is assumed that use of both capital letters and lower case letters after colons, in a single given text, would serve some purpose in communicating the author’s desired meaning, rather than simply reflecting carelessness.

WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN!? the explainer automatically asumes that i know what all kinds of things used in the explanation are. i dont. i wonder if the have grammar for dummies…