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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This looks like a blend between horse shit and force fed.
STOP BELIEVING THE HYPE THAT IS HORSEFED TO YOU BY THESE SCAM ARTISTS!
(http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009 … ewest.html)
the general public is being horsefed the exact nonsense you’re jabbering
(http://shoutwire.com/comments/22909/Pre … A_Year_Ago)
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I love this one. I think I’ll let it become standard for me.
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(Might the absence of/need for horse sense also be involved in it?)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-03-21 10:06:20)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Good one. The imagery that I see relates to hay—not excrement—and I think there are various idioms related to hay and horses which contribute to this: The notion of making hay of an issue; the notion of horses being lead to water…; even the notion of horse sense, as David T. suggests.
I would hazard to guess that most of those who used the term “horse fed” do indeed know “force-fed” as well, so that probably means this isn’t an eggcorn. However, the reshaping may sometimes be closer to subliminal than intentional, so perhaps that aspect might favor the eggcorn classification.
If we could produce a solid case for labelling this an eggcorn, it would probably end up in my top 20 for the year.
Last edited by jorkel (2010-03-26 11:17:52)
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I’m wondering if the phonological similarity to horsehead might prompt a blending between it and forcefed . Influences of that sort are almost impossible to prove, but I don’t think it impossible that they exist.
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I agree with you, Joe, that the notions of eating hay and trying to get a horse to ingest stuff when it doesn’t want to are also likely at play here. (Eating hay makes me think of the White King, though that association probably doesn’t hold for most people. “I didn’t say there was nothing better , I said there was nothing like it.â€)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-03-26 18:07:46)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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