Potoooooooo(en.wikipedia.org)
104 pointsby samclemens3 months ago20 comments
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF3 months 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...

    • tombert3 months 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
    • op00to3 months ago
      What a national treasure.
  • williamsmj3 months 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.
    • selimthegrim3 months ago
      If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.
    • rpastuszak3 months ago
      hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
  • enasterosophes3 months ago
    I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
  • pixelatedindex3 months 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

    • rusk3 months ago
      Hoof Hearted
    • adamanonymous3 months ago
      > Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time

      Amazing

  • DrTung3 months 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 :-)

  • lexicality3 months 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
  • masteruvpuppetz3 months 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/

  • parpfish3 months 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

  • selimthegrim3 months ago
    If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель
    • lelandfe3 months ago
      Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"
  • pkkkzip3 months ago
    kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
    • snerbles3 months ago
      I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
    • maximilianburke3 months ago
      the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
    • csours3 months ago
      keep stuff simple ssssssilly
      • wrboyce3 months ago
        Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
        • selimthegrim3 months ago
          Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?
  • motohagiography3 months ago
    an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.
  • rpastuszak3 months 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)

  • eschneider3 months ago
    Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
  • dylan6043 months ago
    I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
    • 3 months ago
      undefined
    • pak9rabid3 months ago
      Or Daphne Moon
  • moribvndvs3 months 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.
  • javcasas3 months ago
    I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
  • treetalker3 months ago
    Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
  • bitwize3 months ago
    Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
    • philwelch3 months ago
      That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.
      • reverendsteveii3 months ago
        google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too
    • munchler3 months ago
      Pot-two-os?
      • csours3 months ago
        Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
      • reverendsteveii3 months ago
        Potoo == pot two

        Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato

  • TacticalCoder3 months ago
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