Potoooooooo(en.wikipedia.org)
104 pointsby samclemens2 years ago20 comments
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF2 years ago
    Apparently, David Zucker (of Airplane! and Police Academy!^W^W Police Squad! film-making fame) bought a race horse which he named "All Pink" and instructed the jockey to run the horse as close as possible to the inside rail. The intention was to cause the announcer to say some funny words:

    > It was 1989 through 1993. Saratoga, NY, not Sarasota Fla. The goal was to get the track announcer to call out: "...and it's All Pink on the inside!" In fact, it took three horses over about four years. The first horse, "All Pink" ran on the inside, but never got the call. "Ol Pink" ran too close to the rail, and jumped it, ending up on the infield. Finally a mare, "Awl Pink" got the call in late '93. A $60,000 joke.

    https://800poundgorillamedia.com/blogs/the-laugh-button/crea...

    • tombert2 years ago
      Purely in the interest in pedantry, I think you might be thinking of Police Squad, not Police Academy? At least my Wikipedia-level knowledge seems to indicate that
    • op00to2 years ago
      What a national treasure.
  • williamsmj2 years ago
    I was the owner of the domain potooooo.ooo from June 2020 to July 2021. I was pretty bored during early lockdown. I let it lapse. whois tells me someone else has now fallen into the trap of the $30 dad joke.
    • selimthegrim2 years ago
      If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.
    • rpastuszak2 years ago
      hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
  • enasterosophes2 years ago
    I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
  • pixelatedindex2 years ago
    I’ve always loved the names of race horses, and invariably Wiki has a list:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racehorses

    • rusk2 years ago
      Hoof Hearted
    • adamanonymous2 years ago
      > Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time

      Amazing

  • DrTung2 years ago
    Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender.

    Got the box and started reading the manual when someone stopped and asked "Why are you reading about horses?" What horse? "The mighty Phar Lap of course."

    I had no idea it was the name of a horse, but I guess since their logo had a black horse I should have known :-)

  • lexicality2 years ago
    I love the things they name horses. One of my favourites: https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE
  • masteruvpuppetz2 years ago
    Potoooooooo died in November 1800 at the age of 27 and was buried at Hare Park. Some 200 years later, his skeleton was uncovered when a tree blew over. The skeleton is on display at the Kings Yard Galleries of the National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket.

    https://nhrm.zetcom.net/en/collection/item/81091/

  • parpfish2 years ago
    what a wonderful chain of people-being-weird events:

    - old time guy wants to name a horse "potato"

    - kid writes it as "pot-8-o"

    - somebody else rewrites that as potoooooooo

  • selimthegrim2 years ago
    If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель
    • lelandfe2 years ago
      Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"
  • pkkkzip2 years ago
    kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
    • snerbles2 years ago
      I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
    • maximilianburke2 years ago
      the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
    • csours2 years ago
      keep stuff simple ssssssilly
      • wrboyce2 years ago
        Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
        • selimthegrim2 years ago
          Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?
  • motohagiography2 years ago
    an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.
  • rpastuszak2 years ago
    hehe, weird to see this article on HN of all places, given that I own https://potato.horse

    (bought for a reason unrelated to the horse from the wiki page)

  • eschneider2 years ago
    Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
  • dylan6042 years ago
    I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
    • 2 years ago
      undefined
    • pak9rabid2 years ago
      Or Daphne Moon
  • moribvndvs2 years ago
    I don’t know why it seems weird to me that people would engage in wordplay like rebus writing in the 18th century. Maybe because most of the literature we’re exposed to from that era is fairly formal and stuffy.
  • javcasas2 years ago
    I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
  • treetalker2 years ago
    Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
  • bitwize2 years ago
    Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
    • philwelch2 years ago
      That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.
      • reverendsteveii2 years ago
        google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too
    • munchler2 years ago
      Pot-two-os?
      • csours2 years ago
        Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
      • reverendsteveii2 years ago
        Potoo == pot two

        Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato

  • TacticalCoder2 years ago
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