Funnier: A hockey player riding a horse, or a jockey on
skates? Discuss
If it's only the jockey, this may be a toss-up. If the horse was skating too, I really think we're talking some pretty next-level comedy right there.
So, for today's Sametime Status, we're examining the effect of a single letter change on a word. In hindsight, this might have made for a really fun Theme Week...in fact, it still might...stay tuned.
Anyway, the words "Hockey" and "Jockey" are only off by one letter, and mean very different things. We'll ignore the fact that one is the name of a sport, and the other is the name of a participant in a sport because that takes away from everybody's pleasure, and we don't want to do that here. So, picture if you will:
Hockey players are often fairly large expanses of humanity. Not always, certainly, but when people think of the stereotypical hockey player, they think of the 6 foot plus goon with muscles on top of muscles, minimal teeth, and a predisposition to punching others. This is a stereotype, people...and as you know, all generalizations are wrong. Anyway, hockey players wear thick pads over most of their body, have a helmet, skates, and a graphite composite stick. Imagine this person riding a horse.
Horse racing jockeys are typically folks of minimal stature wearing remarkably colorful clothing, leather boots, a helmet, and carrying a riding crop. Imagine this person being checked into the boards of a hockey rink by a 6 foot 230 pound defenseman.
I honestly don't know which of these mental pictures I find more amusing.
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