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Potoooooooo

by willemmerson on 7/28/21, 10:41 PM with 32 comments

• by Apocryphon on 7/29/21, 12:06 AM

  And here I thought this type of rebus wasn't invented until 20th century advertising campaigns. This horse witnessed the American Revolution.

• by Igelau on 7/29/21, 1:01 AM

  I'm thinking something along the lines of the taters scene in LotR.

  "Stable boy! The horse's name is Potatoes!"

  "Potatoes? Mi'lord?"

  "Yah! POT-AYT-OES!"

  writes Potoooooooo

• by willio58 on 7/29/21, 12:09 AM

  This horse gets posted at least once a year, every time I chuckle at the name

• by aprao on 7/28/21, 11:25 PM

  Why is it that race horses have such unusual names?

• by smoldesu on 7/28/21, 11:41 PM

  I prefer Orb[0]. Orb is horse.

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_(horse)

• by ranza on 7/29/21, 12:22 AM

  Reminds me of my friends who own a motion graphic company called https://ccccccc.tv

• by robertwt7 on 7/29/21, 1:51 AM

  good read

  pot8o is pronounced pot-eight-o = potato.

  Usually "potato" term is considered as weak / bad as far as I know, but then here "potato" is a champ.

• by jszymborski on 7/29/21, 12:24 AM

  Further proof that naming things is hard.

• by peanut_worm on 7/29/21, 1:10 AM

  also the name of a freakish bird

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

• by prpl on 7/29/21, 3:49 AM

  Better in spanish than english

• by wly_cdgr on 7/29/21, 3:54 AM

  *Poto6o