A small carved wooden horse with a knotted rope mane and a comb beside it on green felt.

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Captain Ramsey

Horses are fascinating animals. Dumb as fenceposts, but very intuitive. In that way they're not too different from high school girls: they may not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to fuck 'em.

— Crimson Tide  ·  1995

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Ramsey delivers a crude, cynical comparison between horses and teenage girls. It starts as a mock nature note about horses being dim but intuitive. The joke is the rude punchline, and it reflects the speaker's offensive view rather than any fact.

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