Name the Horse With No Name
posted by Missus Boot at 22:55
Dewey Bunnell wrote a song about going through the desert on a horse with no name, and, frankly, I have always been concerned as to why he didn't name his loyal steed.

Dewey tells us, "in the desert you can remember your name." That's nice. He bothers with his own name, but doesn't give a toss about the poor animal that is carting his bulk across the desert. Hmmm. This could also indicate that he didn't name the horse, then completely forget what he called it.

It's not like it was a small desert, either, leaving him little or no time to give the horse a name. He was trodding through it for nine days until he dumped the horse by the sea, lonely, exhausted, unappreciated and utterly, utterly nameless. Dewey totally deserved that sunburn he got after two days.

Anyway, how could he ride through the desert with no word whatsoever to reference his horse with? He must have thought of the horse as something, even if it was some gutteral grunt, like "Nnnng," or "Rrrrw.". Then again, he's referred to it as horse, which is a name as such. Therefore, either Dewey Bunnell was lying and is a fraud, or he's made twenty big buckets of gold out of thrashing a poor old nag across an entire desert, like some sort of tosser.

I have started a petition here, right here, look, to get Dewey Bunnell to name his horse. Please sign it.