Wikipedia:How many legs does a horse have?

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My uncle once said, "Boy, do you see that horse?"

Yessir.

"How many legs does that horse have?"

Four.

"Now what if I say that a horse's tail is a leg, too?"

Uh...

"If I call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does that horse have?"

Five?

"Boy, will you never learn? It doesn't matter what you call something. That horse still has four legs."

Sometimes when confronted with a difficult challenge we reply, That's not true! We say, That's not a (vanity page)/(rant)/(personal attack)/(tail); that's a (noteworthy article)/(discussion)/(polite comment)/(leg). But this changes nothing.

It's never enough to reply to a comment by saying You're wrong! That's not true! If it really is a leg, then show us how.

1 Examples of horsepoop
- 1.1 Proof that a horse has, in fact, an infinite number of legs
- 1.2 The longer you count, the more legs a horse has
2 See Also
3 References

[edit] Examples of horsepoop

[edit] Proof that a horse has, in fact, an infinite number of legs

A horse has four legs
It has forelegs at the front
It has two legs at the rear
Four plus two is six, it has six legs
Six is an odd number of legs for a horse
Four is an even number
The only number which is both even and odd is infinity
Therefore: a horse has an infinite number of legs

This is just as false as calling the tail a leg...

[edit] The longer you count, the more legs a horse has

A horse has four legs
It has two forelegs at the front and two hind legs in the back. This makes it 8.
It has two legs on the left side and two legs on the right side. This totals 12.
It also has four perfectly visible legs from the below. Now we have 16 of them.
And we even didn't start counting legs on each corner!

When arguing, make sure you add really new legs to your stand.