[Jewelry making - Article 00227] - [Orchid] [Tidbits] A Horse is a Horse is a Horse of course ...

[Benjamin Mark]

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    A Horse is a Horse is a Horse of course ... 

    So wait ... listen ... before I get into this seated nephrite jade
    horse which happens to be quite attractive and about which I have
    very little info other than the fact that it's a seated nephrite jade
    horse ... I have a question. Remember the Lone Ranger and Tonto?
    What does Tonto mean in Spanish? Go ... look it  up. Talk about the
    days of politically incorrect. Sheesh! 

    Hey. You ever hear of a horse that can do math? There's
    documentation on this folks.  Before I get into this seated nephrite
    jade horse about which I have scant  information other than the fact
    that it's worth about 4000 Pounds Sterling ... let me tell you about
    a math wizard of a horse named Muhamed. One could place a sack over
    Muhamed's head in order to ensure he was getting no signals from his
    master who would pose a problem  ... and Muhamed would mentally
    extract cube roots ... and tap the answer out with his feet. Example
    ... if the answer to a problem was 43 ... Muhamed would tap out 4
    with his left foot and 3 with his right. Skeptics would come with
    mean little grins on their pinched faces ... ready to prove trickery
    ... but instead they invariably walked away amazed. 

    I could ... at this point ... segu=E9 into the mythological aspects of
    horses ... or I could continue with bits and pieces of information
    about other horse geniuses. Of course ... in a democratic sense ...
    I could call for a vote ... or I could take a despotic position and
    decide what you'd like to know  without asking for your opinion. Ahh
    ... but democracy reigns. Put  your ballots into that Instant Ballot
    Computing Machine -- no Chads please. Now we wait for the IBCM  to
    do it's work ... and ... voil=E0 ... majority reigns ... more horse
    genius stuff. 

    Did I mention our nephrite jade horse ... which is 34.0 cm. high and
    47.0 cm. wide is looking over his right shoulder with an intensity
    in his eye paralleled only by the intense gaze of a raptor set to
    focus on his next meal? Muhamed resided in a stable in Elberfield,
    Germany ... as did Berto--a blind stallion--who was taught to do
    arithmetic. There were those skeptics at the time who announced that
    they were sure Berto was getting visual signals from his trainer.
    The response was: Hey ... dummy-head ... how does one give visual
    signals to a blind horse? The skeptics were unimpressed .and they
    persisted in their efforts to expose a hoax. Skeptics are dolts. 

    Nephrite jade ... on the other hand ... sometimes has a translucent 
    quality to it that is clearly reflected in our equine as he glistens
    under the hot, glaring  lights of the photographers studio. Should
    some of you wonder how I know it's a male ... don't ask ... and I
    won't tell. Kluge Hans and Zarif were other horses at that stable.
    Between the four animals ... not only  could they do mathematical
    calculations ... they could also read and tell  time by the clock.
    After these demonstrations ...skeptics often left awed ... as well
    they should. They would have been even more awed by our seated
    nephrite jade horse had they seen it ... a horse about which I would
    like to tell you more ... but ... alas ... as I had previously
    mentioned ... I have nothing at all to tell. 

    So .... 

    For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
    direct  you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
    scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
    Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Horse ...
    where you will see a graphic of our statuette. 

    And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all
    next week. Benjamin Mark 

            -- http://www.tyler-adam.com --



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