[HN Gopher] Potoooooooo
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Potoooooooo
Author : samclemens
Score : 83 points
Date : 2025-01-16 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
| pixelatedindex wrote:
| I've always loved the names of race horses, and invariably Wiki
| has a list:
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racehorses
| rusk wrote:
| Hoof Hearted
| dylan604 wrote:
| I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
| pak9rabid wrote:
| Or Daphne Moon
| selimthegrim wrote:
| If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out
| on using the all seeing eye glyph in Kartfel'
| lelandfe wrote:
| Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of
| "trypophobia"
| williamsmj wrote:
| 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.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
| bitwize wrote:
| Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed
| bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
| munchler wrote:
| Pot-two-os?
| csours wrote:
| Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| Potoo == pot two
|
| Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato
| philwelch wrote:
| That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next
| to shoebill.
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like
| shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare
| muppet too
| enasterosophes wrote:
| I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
| shuntress wrote:
| It's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word
| or phrase]o
| parpfish wrote:
| 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
| pkkkzip wrote:
| kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
| csours wrote:
| keep stuff simple ssssssilly
| wrboyce wrote:
| Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly
| substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
| snerbles wrote:
| I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
| maximilianburke wrote:
| the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
| javcasas wrote:
| I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
| moribvndvs wrote:
| 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.
| lexicality wrote:
| I love the things they name horses. One of my favourites:
| https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr /
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE
| eschneider wrote:
| Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
| theandrewbailey wrote:
| That's where baristas worked before Starbucks.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| 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...
| op00to wrote:
| What a national treasure.
| tombert wrote:
| 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
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| That is correct, thanks.
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
|
| Potoo!
| op00to wrote:
| op00to!
| rpastuszak wrote:
| 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)
| motohagiography wrote:
| an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous
| 3 stooges pronunciation.
| DrTung wrote:
| 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 :-)
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