alt.hn

1/16/2025 at 6:47:56 PM

Potoooooooo

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

by samclemens

1/16/2025 at 8:43:11 PM

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...

by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

1/16/2025 at 9:19:10 PM

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

by tombert

1/16/2025 at 9:33:40 PM

That is correct, thanks.

by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

1/16/2025 at 9:06:06 PM

What a national treasure.

by op00to

1/16/2025 at 7:16:35 PM

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.

by williamsmj

1/16/2025 at 8:58:03 PM

hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.

by rpastuszak

1/17/2025 at 12:34:15 AM

If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.

by selimthegrim

1/16/2025 at 7:20:23 PM

I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo

by enasterosophes

1/16/2025 at 9:01:05 PM

It's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word or phrase]o

by shuntress

1/16/2025 at 7:12:42 PM

I’ve always loved the names of race horses, and invariably Wiki has a list:

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

by pixelatedindex

1/16/2025 at 11:36:01 PM

> Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time

Amazing

by adamanonymous

1/16/2025 at 7:53:54 PM

Hoof Hearted

by rusk

1/16/2025 at 9:45:07 PM

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 :-)

by DrTung

1/17/2025 at 4:13:02 AM

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/

by masteruvpuppetz

1/16/2025 at 7:21:57 PM

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

by parpfish

1/16/2025 at 7:25:49 PM

kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss

by pkkkzip

1/16/2025 at 7:30:28 PM

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

by snerbles

1/16/2025 at 7:56:22 PM

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

by maximilianburke

1/16/2025 at 7:30:03 PM

keep stuff simple ssssssilly

by csours

1/16/2025 at 8:57:46 PM

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

by wrboyce

1/17/2025 at 12:35:14 AM

Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?

by selimthegrim

1/16/2025 at 9:02:59 PM

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)

by rpastuszak

1/16/2025 at 7:15:42 PM

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

by selimthegrim

1/16/2025 at 7:17:18 PM

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

by lelandfe

1/16/2025 at 8:10:32 PM

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

by eschneider

1/16/2025 at 8:34:08 PM

That's where baristas worked before Starbucks.

by theandrewbailey

1/16/2025 at 7:12:47 PM

I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice

by dylan604

1/16/2025 at 7:34:56 PM

Or Daphne Moon

by pak9rabid

1/16/2025 at 7:43:57 PM

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.

by moribvndvs

1/17/2025 at 3:39:02 AM

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

by treetalker

1/16/2025 at 7:34:23 PM

I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted

by javcasas

1/16/2025 at 9:29:36 PM

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

by motohagiography

1/16/2025 at 7:17:02 PM

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

by bitwize

1/16/2025 at 8:14:46 PM

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

by philwelch

1/16/2025 at 8:53:55 PM

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

by reverendsteveii

1/16/2025 at 7:24:43 PM

Pot-two-os?

by munchler

1/16/2025 at 7:31:20 PM

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

by csours

1/16/2025 at 8:49:28 PM

Potoo == pot two

Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato

by reverendsteveii

1/16/2025 at 10:04:42 PM

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by TacticalCoder