Potoooooooo

104 pointsposted 3 months ago
by samclemens

44 Comments

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

3 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...

tombert

3 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

op00to

3 months ago

What a national treasure.

williamsmj

3 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.

selimthegrim

3 months ago

If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.

rpastuszak

3 months ago

hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.

DrTung

3 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 :-)

masteruvpuppetz

2 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/

parpfish

3 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

selimthegrim

3 months ago

If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель

lelandfe

3 months ago

Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"

pkkkzip

3 months ago

kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss

snerbles

3 months ago

I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.

maximilianburke

3 months ago

the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly

csours

3 months ago

keep stuff simple ssssssilly

wrboyce

3 months ago

Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.

selimthegrim

3 months ago

Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?

motohagiography

3 months ago

an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.

rpastuszak

3 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)

eschneider

3 months ago

Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/

dylan604

3 months ago

I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice

user

3 months ago

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moribvndvs

3 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.

javcasas

3 months ago

I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted

treetalker

2 months ago

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

bitwize

3 months ago

Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo

philwelch

3 months ago

That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.

reverendsteveii

3 months ago

google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too

munchler

3 months ago

Pot-two-os?

csours

3 months ago

Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os

reverendsteveii

3 months ago

Potoo == pot two

Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato