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Either way, Laid Back's 1983 single starts out persuading you not to ride the white horse but rather to ride the white pony, also a slang term for coke." [6] The book Totally Awesome 80s described "White Horse" as "a song with very few words that still managed to be about the joys of cocaine". [7]
In Stage 5 (S6E14) of the HBO series The Sopranos, Paulie Gualtieri mistakenly quotes the song, saying "Ride the painted pony, let the spinnin' wheel glide" One of the commercials for Pets.com airing during Super Bowl XXXIV has the dot-com's sock puppet mascot briefly sing the chorus while riding with a delivery driver.
Alex Carlyle was the first man to ride the Pony Express out of St. Joe. He was a nephew of the superintendent of the stage line to Denver, called the "Pike's Peak Express". The superintendent's name was Ben Ficklin.
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2]
"Mony Mony" was credited to Tommy James, Bo Gentry, Ritchie Cordell and Bobby Bloom. [4] The song's title was inspired by Tommy James' view of the "M.O.N.Y." sign atop the Mutual of New York Building on the New York City skyline from his Manhattan apartment. [4]
The Stone Pony was about to ride. But first, the Stone Pony had to become the “Stone Pony.” Roig's inspiration for the name came from a night of romance.
Queen Elizabeth's longtime groom and riding companion is sharing the story of her final ride on her Fell pony Emma ahead of the second anniversary of the sovereign's death.. Terry Pendry worked ...
A "cock horse" can mean a high-spirited horse, or the additional horse to assist pulling a cart or carriage up a hill. It can also mean an entire or uncastrated horse. From the mid-sixteenth century it also meant a pretend hobby horse or an adult's knee. [2] There is also an expression "a-cock-horse", meaning "astride".