Out on the road today I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said "Come!" I looked and beheld a pale horse...
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Replying to @AlexandraErin
Death aside, the Bible doesn't name the horsemen in Revelation. Production notes suggest "Chesty", "Burpy", and "Baldy" were considered.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin
Not only are the traditional names (Pestilence, War, Famine) not found in Biblical canon, but neither is any mention of their cutie marks.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin
In all seriousness, though, the "traditional" identities of the Four Horsemen might be as young as the 20th century.
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NB: When I say "might be", I mean "might be". I'm on an internet scavenger hunt for definitive origins for them.
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'kipedia notes that the name Pestilence appeared "as early as 1906", which is what shocked me into this line of inquiry.
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Before that I wasn't even interested in turning this tweet stream serious.
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TL;DR - 90% of the stuff a generic "you" thinks is in the Bible is actually fanfiction, and 90% of the rest is probably Shakespeare.
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And I'll give a shiny gold internet to whoever knows (without Googling) what "Chesty, Burpy, and Baldy" were *actually* rejected names for.
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@alexandraerin i have no idea but i'll definitely guess the Three Stooges
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