Court: Man can't name filly 'Sally Hemings'

ESPN ^ | August 7, 2007 | Associated Press

[Trust but Verify]

I find it interesting that this guy went to so much trouble to try to name the horse Sally Hemings!

[darkwing104]

I bet "Hillary" wouldn't get approved either...

[llevrok]

I bet "Hillary" wouldn't get approved either...

Hillary has legs like a clydesdale and, no doubt, a mudder

[snarks_when_bored]

I bet "Hillary" wouldn't get approved either...

The guy wants to name his horse, not his horse's ass...

[Red Badger]

"To be sure, the First Amendment protects horse owners' rights to free speech, and we do not foreclose Mr. Redmond indiscriminately from asserting that right, but the right to free speech is not absolute in all contexts," Batchelder wrote.

What say ye?..........................

[Eric in the Ozarks]

She’s also rumored to have breasts.

[Red Badger]

They don’t let nags in the thoroughbred races.......

[Lee'sGhost]

Well, I’m thinking I would rename the horse “Judge Alice Batchelder.”

[Dixie Yooper]

Didn’t Thomas Jefferson have a pet name for her that the horse owner could use?

[lilylangtree]

The owner finds there are limits to “free speech.” Then begs the question does the constitution really guarantees us “free speech”? Or guarantees us “limited speech” instead? Is the term “free speech” a misnomer?

[Red Badger]

LOL!!!!........

[kms61]

if I remember correctly, you can’t name a horse after a living person without their approval—back in the seventies there was a filly named Chris Evert. I don’t know what the problem with Sally Hemings is.

[Trust but Verify]

Good Point! I feel sorry for the horse! What kind of a name is “Awaiting Justice”?

[Jaysun]

She’s also rumored to have breasts.

She has at least three nipples. Otherwise her imps would starve.

[PinkDolphin]

Was it a black horse? Maybe it was a white horse.

:P

[Jaysun]

He should change the name to “Sal E. Hemmings” and be done with it.

[Dixie Yooper]

What kind of a name is “Awaiting Justice”?

He must have decided to name the horse after Michael Vick.

[Steamburg]

There’s a dark horse joke in there somewhere. Some would even say that the judge was niggardly in her understanding of freedom of expression. (I know some congress people haven’t gotten around to looking up the word and forbid it’s use in conversation.)

[Arrowhead1952]

Subject: FW: Texas politics

Texas Politics

A man walked into a bar in Central Texas, and ordered a drink.

While he was sitting at the bar watching T.V., one of Hillary’s political ads came on.

After it went off, he stood up and announced to everyone, “Hillary is a horse’s ass!”

The bartender reached under the bar and brought out an oak club about 18 inches long and hit the man square across the head, knocking him off his stool and onto the floor.

After a minute or two, the man got up, straightened himself up and said to the bartender, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know this was Hillary country.”

“It’s not!” replied the bartender.” It’s horse country”.

[Logophile]

"In short, because he has spent three years insisting he has a constitutional right to name his horse 'Sally Hemings' and that no other name will do, Mr. Redmond now finds himself, like the songster of the 70s, having 'been through the desert on a horse with no name,'" Batchelder wrote.

Ouch.