Challenge
Mysterious History
Write a historical account about how a commonplace item or custom came to be. Funniest one wins!
Long ago, there was this horse...
On a dark night long ago, we're talking first century or earlier, a sad, unnamed horse was trying to find his family when he encountered a flock of animals. The horse asked the shadowy shapes, "Are you my family?" When the sun rose, the horse saw that he was standing amid a flock of wooly animals known as baa-baas.
The horse turned red and said, "I feel sheepish." And he went to a horse tavern to drown his sorrows.
This is a threefold origin story:
1) How the sheep got its name,
2) The joke, "Horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Why the long face?"
3) America's 1972 hit, "A Horse With No Name."
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