Sit on a tiny saddle for six hours and everything hurts or goes numb.
If one man says to thee, "Thou art a donkey," do not mind; if two speak thus, purchase a saddle for thyself.
Overheard on a Fifth Avenue bus, one lass to another: "My mother wants to give me a saddle for Christmas--not a horse, just a saddle".
Why He Needs His Comeuppance: Pawnee's crooked councilman, Jeremy Jamm, has been a burr in the Parks Department's saddle for two seasons: dropping deuces in Leslie's office, making racist comments, drunkenly crashing a wedding with a megaphone and stink bombs, and forcing Leslie to miss Ben's '90s-themed roller skating birthday party.
The 37-year-old fell from his horse during a training session, injuring his back and putting him out of the saddle for eight weeks - meaning he will miss the selection events in July.
Later this year, when Bill Keller dismounts as executive editor of the New York Times and hands the reins to Jill Abramson, he'll have been in the saddle for eight years.
By Hendrik Hertzberg June 2, 2011 Later this year, when Bill Keller dismounts as executive editor of the New York Times and hands the reins to Jill Abramson, he'll have been in the saddle for eight years.
When that young man, a Brooklyn lad who has been the leading jockey for two seasons, came out of a spill at Santa Anita in January with a fractured vertebra and two cracked ribs, it was thought that he wouldn't be in the saddle for six months, but he appears to be as good as ever was.
