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"The horse's name was friday", sometimes written as "The horse's name is friday", is a catchphrase that is often used to reply to questions on discussion forums or social media when the replier does not know the answer to the question, or simply uses it as an act of trolling when it is completely irrelevant to the question.

Origin

The phrase comes from a famous riddle that dates back to an unknown time. The riddle is, "A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays in town for 3 days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?" The answer to the riddle is the said phrase, "The horse's name was friday". The riddle was made popular after it was mentioned in the episode "iGive Away a Car" of iCarly, ^[4][1] a web show and tv show aired on Nickelodeon .^[5]

(Third riddle in the video)

Since the widespread of the riddle, netizens often use the phrase "The horse's name was friday" to answer other riddles or questions when they do not know the actual answer. Reaction images have also been created on Meme Generator^[2] and Memecrunch^[3] respectively. The term is also occasionally mentioned when something related to "horse" is brought up in a post for no apparent reason, such as this post on iFunny.

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