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
The article explicitly gives this explanation.
Potoooooooo
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Re: Potoooooooo
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
When an owner registers their horse to complete in major races, they need to satisfy a bunch of requirements. Some of which: the name can’t be the same as another horse, it can’t use a copyrighted term, there is a length limit, the name can’t be the same as a real person’s name, and it can’t be profane. Also, a lot of people choose names because they think those specific names will bring them luck or just because the…
So a little like private boat names?
Except I'm fairly sure there's nothing to stop you from giving your boat the same name as another. How many "Anna II"'s have we seen...?
Re: Potoooooooo
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of interesting that you can follow the sire line of that horse until you reach pot8o.
Certainly! But how on Earth did you stumble across that?
Hmm, now I'm curious. If the wikidata project is somewhat up to scratch you should be able to do a SPARQL query on the horse and its ancestors (which is kind of an ideal use case for a graph query language).
Re: Potoooooooo
#34Reminds me of my friends who own a motion graphic company called https://ccccccc.tv
Given the wavy logo, I guess it reads as "Seven Seas"?