Potoooooooo(en.wikipedia.org)
103 pointsby samclemensa day ago20 comments
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OFa day 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...

    • tomberta day 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
    • op00toa day ago
      What a national treasure.
  • williamsmja day 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.
    • rpastuszaka day ago
      hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
    • selimthegrima day ago
      If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.
  • enasterosophesa day ago
    I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
  • pixelatedindexa day 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

    • adamanonymousa day ago
      > Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time

      Amazing

    • ruska day ago
      Hoof Hearted
  • DrTunga day 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 :-)

  • lexicalitya day 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
  • masteruvpuppetza day 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/

  • parpfisha day 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

  • pkkkzipa day ago
    kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
    • snerblesa day ago
      I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
    • maximilianburkea day ago
      the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
    • csoursa day ago
      keep stuff simple ssssssilly
      • wrboycea day ago
        Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
        • selimthegrima day ago
          Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?
  • rpastuszaka day 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)

  • selimthegrima day ago
    If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель
    • lelandfea day ago
      Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"
  • eschneidera day ago
    Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
  • dylan604a day ago
    I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
    • a day ago
      undefined
    • pak9rabida day ago
      Or Daphne Moon
  • moribvndvsa day 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.
  • treetalkera day ago
    Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
  • javcasasa day ago
    I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
  • motohagiographya day ago
    an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.
  • bitwizea day ago
    Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
    • philwelcha day ago
      That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.
      • reverendsteveiia day ago
        google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too
    • munchlera day ago
      Pot-two-os?
      • csoursa day ago
        Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
      • reverendsteveiia day ago
        Potoo == pot two

        Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato

  • TacticalCodera day ago
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