This installment of Friday release valve is sponsored by

The Horse Snorkel.

You know friends, this time of year when it's chilly and nippy and cold from winter, I like to jet down to the

Caribbean to soak up some sun and pay a visit to my offshore bank accounts.

Now, obviously I can't travel as extensively as normal this season because international travel is of course

a foul of my parole conditions. But either way my point is this, beaches sure are fun, aren't they?

They sure are.

There's just one problem.

When you go snorkeling, what do you do with your horse?

Well, I guess you could abandon your steed there on the beach while you go sloshing

around with that recently divorced woman you met at the resort, but your horse doesn't

know what's happening.

It thinks you're swimming away, possibly forever. I don't know if you've ever seen

at Clydesdale frantically doggy paddling after its master, but it's heartbreaking any way

you paint it.

Plus, you gotta worry about your horse drowning,

and that's no fun.

So maybe you hitch it to some driftwood or a boat.

Well, that won't work, but your horse is going to resent you for it.

So then finally, you probably take it out with you on a boat.

Just leave it on the boat while you go snorkeling.

Well, you know what?

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