Potoooooooo

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...

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.

I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo

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

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

I love the things they name horses. One of my favourites: https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Arrrrr / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RSHFoRbiE

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

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

Potoo!

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. :/

kubernetes, k8s, ksssssssss

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.