One such reprinted Tweet caught my eye in the NYT when I spotted something they were bordering off as the "Tweet of the Day." They included this Tweet in a "Trailside" piece on the campaign for City Hall, New York City's upcoming mayoral election.
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"We'd be better off with geldings, that's for sure."
Teresa Genaro @BklynBckstretch
Horse-racing blogger based in Brooklyn discussing the race for mayor.
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If you know what geldings are, this is quite funny.
Once the sexually disgraced candidate count doubled, the upcoming city elections have taken on an even more carnival atmosphere.
Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor, joined the race running for city controller. His campaign, freshly started, is added to that of Anthony Weiner's, a former Brooklyn congressman who nearly as recently, added his name to the crowded field already running for mayor.
Both men are former elected officials who resigned their positions over frequenting prostitutes (Spitzer) and sending sexually charged images over the Internet to a woman they were not married to (Weiner).
Fairly fresh uproars, but receding into the past fast enough to breathe life into the possibilities of the election of these two men. Lots of opinions about that, and Ms. Genaro's is one of the funniest.
A gelding is a castrated male horse. In fact, in thoroughbred horse racing terms, the colt, or horse is the male, and the filly, or mare is the female.
Gelding a horse is not done often, and is not done as a punishment for sexual misdeeds. It is done when it is felt that the horse's temperament will improve if they are gelded, and therefore they will concentrate on being trained to run and win races. Some of the best horses have been geldings, Kelso, Forego, John Henry, to name a few. Because the breeding possibilities have been removed, they remained on the racetrack for more years than other horses and by being good, they won more races and money.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Genaro on two occasions at New York tracks. She's more than a horse-racing blogger. She's a credentialed member of the turf press and writes for racing publications, as well as the New York Racing Association. She's also an upper class English teacher at a private school in Brooklyn, with many years of teaching experience. Originally from Saratoga, she is now a New York City resident, and I'll assume a registered voter. She's got skin in the upcoming election.
Luckily for Spitzer and Weiner, getting gelded is not needed for either of them to run for office. Signatures and money are. Even if they have put their prior behavior behind them, and even with none of my own skin in the upcoming election, I'd hate to see gelding turn either of them into champions.
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Another outtake from a self-penned obituary has a life-long Cleveland Browns fan, Scott E. Entsminger, of Mansfield, Ohio respectfully requesting that his six pallbearers be Cleveland Browns players so that they can let him down one last time.
It's such a heartfelt request that you want to make sure you put Cleveland as finishing with the worse record in your fantasy league.
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