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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
How about an eyelet at the end of a lariat rope??? |
Bajahowodd's research has paid off!!..
...but only somebody who pays any attention at all to 'tripadvisor' would call a loop an 'eyelet' 
(you know I'm kidding you, right?)
Let's keep our cajones and call it a loop at the end of a lariat. The boys from Brokeback Mountain can call it an eyelet.
[Edited on 8-28-2010 by Pompano]
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AKA Honda!!
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fishabuctor..hondo was a term brought to the early west by Mexican vaqueros.
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Two fingers? And the cow drops to the ground? Thumb and fore finger? Jeez!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
...............My wife can grab a cow by the nose with 2 fingers and bring it to the ground..... |
Your wife would like to meet my Aunt Alice..Big Al of the Sheyenne Vally...she can pick up a good-size heifer and put it on the right side of the
fence...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
My wife is only 120# too. I have to be careful with my P's and Q's. My nose is big enough to accept a finger or 2 |
Big Al's left leg is bigger than that. She stands straight at 6'2"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Two fingers? And the cow drops to the ground? Thumb and fore finger? Jeez! |
She got it from Mr. Spock.
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another japanese car ?
BIEN SALUD, DA RAT
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Roger-
Here is one definition of Lasso on Google. Had I put this up for your guess, I am pretty sure you would be wrong (let's face it, I am a sore loser):
The Lasso is a shrinkage and selection method for linear regression. It minimizes the usual sum of squared errors, with a bound on the sum of the
absolute values of the coefficients. It has connections to soft-thresholding of wavelet coefficients, forward stagewise regression, and boosting
methods.
 
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Indian Cowboy
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and I'm just another little girl who loves him sooooooo!"
Buffy Saint-Marie
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
Indian Cowboy
"He's an Indian Cowboy in the rodeo,
and I'm just another little girl who loves him sooooooo!"
Buffy Saint-Marie |
Hey! That was my guess.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart...
The Lasso is a shrinkage and selection method for linear regression. It minimizes the usual sum of squared errors, with a bound on the sum of the
absolute values of the coefficients. It has connections to soft-thresholding of wavelet coefficients, forward stagewise regression, and boosting
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Yah, Tony
I'm sure Auntie Al was thinkin' of jes' thiz ever' time she helped a bovine find its way!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
Roger-
Here is one definition of Lasso on Google. Had I put this up for your guess, I am pretty sure you would be wrong (let's face it, I am a sore loser):
The Lasso is a shrinkage and selection method for linear regression. It minimizes the usual sum
of squared errors, with a bound on the sum of the absolute values of the coefficients. It has connections to soft-thresholding of wavelet
coefficients, forward stagewise regression, and boosting methods.
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Tony..the key word here is HONDO..not Lasso..sigh. Too much red does that, y'know?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
Indian Cowboy
"He's an Indian Cowboy in the rodeo,
and I'm just another little girl who loves him sooooooo!"
Buffy Saint-Marie |
Hey! That was my guess. |
But did you imagine Buffy in the newly-digitalized 3-D release? Hah!Hah!Didya?Didya?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart...
The Lasso is a shrinkage and selection method for linear regression. It minimizes the usual sum of squared errors, with a bound on the sum of the
absolute values of the coefficients. It has connections to soft-thresholding of wavelet coefficients, forward stagewise regression, and boosting
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Yah, Tony
I'm sure Auntie Al was thinkin' of jes' thiz ever' time she helped a bovine find its way! |
I would hesitate to get Big Al's ornery up....she rides 27/7 and can be in your neighborhood soon.
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Pompano, I have some team roping in my background so your question and some of the responses got me to looking and digging.
I have two older books, one is titled "Leather Braiding" by Bruce Grant (1961) which provides "Honda- the eye in a lariat through which a braided
leather rope or reata is rove."
The second book is titled "How to make Cowboy Horse Gear" by Bruce Grant (1953) which provides "Honda - Eye on the working end of a lariat, or reata,
through which the rope passes to form a loop or noose." A reata is a rope made of braided rawhide. In this book the author describes how to make a
San Juan Honda which was developed in Sonora, Mexico.
With all that said, I agree with you. I have never heard that part of a lariat referred to as a honda, always a hondo. Here in southern Idaho, some
ropers pronounce it [hahn-due] and others pronounce it [hahn-doe]. I think that difference is more of a Coors vs. Budweiser deal. Fun post, thanks,
b1
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b1..you are right, of course. A hondo is the small eye part of the lariat..through which the tag end is passed to form the LOOP. Up North our
ranchhands (cowboys) call them HON-dohs. Guess all locales are a mite different in pronunciation.
fishabuctor... Lots of old horse hair lariats, whips, hat bands, and crops around these parts..mostly keepsakes.
...I have a nice bracelet made from 'moose' hair.
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This is a favorite horse hair hat band.
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fishabductor, the two books only describe working with rawhide. According to the 1953 book, the Mexican vaquero who also braided leather was called a
trenzador. This book has lots of Spanish words in it.
Nice hatband Pompano. There is a lot of "romance" to this type of art work. In fact the first chapter of the 1953 book is titled "The Romance of
Rawhide." I applaude your creative way of showing off your braided horsehair hatband. I have some braided horsehair stampede strings for one of my
hats; long enough to "tie something up". Beautiful stuff. b1
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Only definition I know of is same as shari's except in landscaping we use it like "Que tonto de hondo?"
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