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Potoooooooo
- pixelatedindex 2y agoI’ve always loved the names of race horses, and invariably Wiki has a list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racehorses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racehorses
- rusk 2y agoHoof Hearted
- adamanonymous 2y ago> Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time Amazing
- dylan604 2y agoI cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
- pak9rabid 2y agoOr Daphne Moon
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- selimthegrim 2y agoIf only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель
- lelandfe 2y agoWould also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"
- williamsmj 2y agoI 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 2y agohehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
- selimthegrim 2y agoIf only you set up the company potooooo ooo.
- bitwize 2y agoNot to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
- munchler 2y agoPot-two-os?
- csours 2y agoPot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
- reverendsteveii 2y agoPotoo == pot two Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato
- philwelch 2y agoThat is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.
- reverendsteveii 2y agogoogle image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too
- enasterosophes 2y agoI thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
- shuntress 2y agoIt's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word or phrase]o
- selimthegrim 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729592 (Updated to 10 Os recently I guess)
- parpfish 2y agowhat 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 2y agokubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
- csours 2y agokeep stuff simple ssssssilly
- wrboyce 2y agoKeep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
- selimthegrim 2y agoHas anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?
- snerbles 2y agoI've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
- maximilianburke 2y agothe sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
- javcasas 2y agoI prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
- moribvndvs 2y agoI 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 2y agoI love the things they name horses. One of my favourites: https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE
- eschneider 2y agoHorse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
- theandrewbailey 2y agoThat's where baristas worked before Starbucks.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoApparently, 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/creators-airplane-pulled-off-one-funniest-jokes-weve-ever-heard https://800poundgorillamedia.com/blogs/the-laugh-button/crea...
- op00to 2y agoWhat a national treasure.
- tombert 2y agoPurely 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 2y agoThat is correct, thanks.
- reverendsteveii 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo Potoo!
- op00to 2y agoop00to!
- rpastuszak 2y agohehe, weird to see this article on HN of all places, given that I own https://potato.horse https://potato.horse (bought for a reason unrelated to the horse from the wiki page)
- motohagiography 2y agoan old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.
- DrTung 2y agoSometime 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 :-)
- TacticalCoder 2y ago[dead]
- treetalker 2y agoBoil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
- masteruvpuppetz 2y agoPotoooooooo 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/ https://nhrm.zetcom.net/en/collection/item/81091/