packrat mind

[scarfman]

Today at the tack shop where I work parttime while looking for fulltime work, I was helping the assistant manager prepare for Breyer Fun Day tomorrow. Breyer is a preeminent manufacturer of collectible model horses. For Fun Day this year customers will come in and paint model horses - Stable Mates, the smallest scale of the three scales Breyer makes. I set up a table in the front of the store, then got out the paints and brushes. Finally I got out the bags of little toy horses that are all white waiting to be painted whatever color or colors the little girls tomorrow want to see horses in. As I pulled the bag of colorless models out of the box and put it on the the table, I thought, "Bring on the empty horses."

Ten scarfman no-points to the first commenter who identifies the referent. And ... go.

Comments

[mihai-lado.livejournal.com]

I knew this, though I had to check back with Google for the director's name.

Director Michael Curtiz, gave this command. English was not his first language, and he meant "the horses with no saddles or riders." David Niven, who acted in the film, liked the line enough to make it the title of a book of film stories.

[scarfman]

That's it!

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I'd heard it before but I didn't actually know what it was.

And yay Breyers! I had a herd of about forty or fifty when I was a kid. Some of them are packed away at my dad's and some of them are here. I have some Stablemates to paint too, if I can ever get the priming technique down so that they aren't covered in bubbles. I think I just have to be more patient and do multiple coats rather than trying to make it just a couple of coats.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

I had several Breyers when I was young. Now I still have a few. Have the pegasus!