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...
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
That is correct, thanks.
What a national treasure.
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.
If only you set up the company potooooo ooo.
hehe, I own potato.horse. Similar story.
I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
It's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word or phrase]o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729592 (Updated to 10 Os recently I guess)
I’ve always loved the names of race horses, and invariably Wiki has a list:
Hoof Hearted
> Zippy Chippy: infamous for racing 100 times and losing every single time
Amazing
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 :-)
I love the things they name horses. One of my favourites: https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE
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.
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
If only this was in Russia, or a Slavic country, they missed out on using the all seeing eye glyph in Картꙮфель
Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"
kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss
I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
keep stuff simple ssssssilly
Keep server stuff stupefyingly serpentine, significantly substantial, sumptuously sprawling.
Has anyone tried speaking Parseltongue to their deployment?
op00to!
an old friend named his andalusian mare polopony after the famous 3 stooges pronunciation.
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)
Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
That's where baristas worked before Starbucks.
I cannot read this without hearing the Samwise Gamgee voice
Or Daphne Moon
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.
I prefer this other race horse called Hoof Hearted
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
Not to be confused with the hauntingly beautiful big-mouthed bird, the potoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
That is the second most muppet-looking bird I'm aware of, next to shoebill.
google image search for "tawny frogmouth". If you like shoebills and potoos, you'll like this little nightmare muppet too
Pot-two-os?
Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
Potoo == pot two
Potoooooooo == pot eight == potate == potato
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