BARTENDER: “What is this, a joke?”

October 4, 2018 6:39 AM

So a racehorse runs into a bar... [YouTube] “Reuters reports that a racehorse got loose and busted into a bar near the racecourse in Chantilly, France, about 30 miles north of Paris. The filly’s trainer said that he lost control of the animal as he led her from the stables (where some scenes in the James Bond movie A View To A Kill were shot) to a racecourse, and stated that “the young horse has a fondness for running off.”” [via: The Takeout]
posted by Fizz (17 comments total)

“the young horse has a fondness for running off martinis.””

Fixed.
posted by Fizz at 6:45 AM on October 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

“the young horse has a fondness for running off martinis.”

Or perhaps mint juleps
posted by TedW at 6:51 AM on October 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

BOJACK!!! STOP DRINKING !!
posted by Pendragon at 6:52 AM on October 4, 2018 [7 favorites]

Why the long face?
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:59 AM on October 4, 2018 [4 favorites]

Pourquoi le visage long?
posted by Quindar Beep at 7:46 AM on October 4, 2018 [7 favorites]

A race horse which escaped its handler burst into a bar in Chantilly, France, scattering patrons. Nobody was injured in the incident.

After a brief rampage, the horse left without paying its bill, saddling its handler with the tab.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 8:08 AM on October 4, 2018 [3 favorites]

I think eventually everything's going to be okay, but I have no idea what's going to happen next.
posted by Naberius at 9:06 AM on October 4, 2018 [4 favorites]

I am pretty confident that's the fastest some of those people have ever run in their lives.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:17 AM on October 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

The horse is a minor. They can't print her name.
posted by Naberius at 9:33 AM on October 4, 2018 [7 favorites]

This made me think of the horse joining a bicycle race seen in Amélie, which I learned today was the 1997 Critérium International, which lead me to HORSE IN PELOTON! 🐴 Tour of Poland 2017 - Tour de Pologne where a stout little pony does its best to keep up.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:37 AM on October 4, 2018 [4 favorites]

When life imitates The Last Jedi.
posted by vibrotronica at 10:53 AM on October 4, 2018

5 bucks says she ordered a Moscow Mule.
posted by clavdivs at 11:35 AM on October 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

A horse gallops into a bar.

Four hours later, he gets up to stagger out again. He's drunker than the skunk on the stool to his left.

Here's 50 more horse walks into a bar jokes.
posted by BlueHorse at 7:33 PM on October 4, 2018

WTF how do you write this story and not find out the name of the horse??

Five favourites to the first mefite who can come up with a joke that begins with, "A horse walks into a bar," and ends with the bartender saying, "you know, I never did find out his name."
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:49 PM on October 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Ricochet Biscuit, will this do?

A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Don't I know you? Hey, you're Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse!"

Horse says, "Yeah I was his horse, but he retired a while back. I drive for Uber now. Gimme a beer."

"Hmm, makes sense. You're a horse, people need a ride, heh."

Bartender serves the beer, horse starts drinking. "Yep, we cleaned up town after town after town back in the day. And. Every. Freaking. Time we rode out, some lame Blazing Saddles extra would yell, 'who was that masked man?' Not 'who's that amazing kick-ass stallion?' No, the chicks are all 'oooh, who's Cowboy Batman?' A-holes. Yokels."

Bartender, cleaning glasses and missing the point, replies, "Heh. You know, I never did find out his name."

The aristocrats.
posted by zaixfeep at 9:31 AM on October 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

👍
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:30 PM on October 5, 2018

5 bucks says she ordered a Moscow Mule.

You’re probably right; I guess I should pony up.
posted by TedW at 12:09 AM on October 7, 2018