Apr 16, 2007 10:23 AM

Contest: What's This Horse Thinking?

It’s been a while since we did a caption contest, and I think it’s time for another one. Here’s an ad for Ford with a horse sticking his face into the windshield. Yeah, it’s kind of haha funny that the car now has 171 horsepower because of this horse hiny. But what I really want […]

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