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POLL. Without Googling: does the name 'Secretariat' mean anything to you? Just yes or no is fine!
🐅 its harry
yes,
fish deranged
yes!
«Wᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇʀ»
yes because I once named an OC that....
MY GREY LADY 🐈
yes
FloppyFeet
it triggers something vague in my memory banks but i cant remember WHAT so ill go with no?
BANNED CLOWN
Yeah that counts as a no,
𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕖
no clue until explained
Usagi
I keep reading it as secretary I'm p sure that doesn't count tho 
dead characters
yes
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TheBirdsAndBees: That is a no but I applaud you for having the most outlier response possible hete
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*here? Phones are hard.
Xylophone
yes
decaf coffee
yes
ℓσтυѕ ωяσηgѕ
yes
Peil Wiggler
yes
Xylophone
do we get to find out what the poll is for?
BANNED CLOWN
Well, given the number of responses, I'll go ahead and say it: neither my spouse NOR a friend of mine have heard of him and I lost my goddamn mind because I assumed he was such a cultural fixture that everyone knew.
MY GREY LADY 🐈
iirc there was even a movie about it
W(erewolf)ILF
hors fast
W(erewolf)ILF
but LMAO?? I CAN'T BELIEVE JOE DIDN'T KNOW
BANNED CLOWN
But I was told that not everyone cares about horse racing WHICH IS UNFAIR that's the horse sport I DON'T like but then I also used to read the Guinness Book of World Records for fun so I became alarmed
🦈sᴏ sʜᴀʀᴋ
. . . there's a movie
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W(erewolf)ILF
: HE TOLD ME OFF FOR ASSUMING HE WOULD!!
W(erewolf)ILF
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W(erewolf)ILF
i don't know SHIT about horse racing but i know that secretariat fast hors!!!
Peil Wiggler
I always kind of assume everyone at least knows Secretariat and like. Seabiscuit.
yaknog
yes
Peil Wiggler
Even if you don't extensively horse.
BANNED CLOWN
I ASSUMED SO TOO
Peil Wiggler
(Was Seabiscuit even a real horse)
ℓσтυѕ ωяσηgѕ
yeah i only knew from the movie
BANNED CLOWN
APPARENTLY--yes lol
🦈sᴏ sʜᴀʀᴋ
it's not even particularly old, it came out in 2010 and then i had to watch it for all of high school because our high school only owned that and apollo 13
BANNED CLOWN
fdfhdtfcxh
yaknog
I ALSO
Peil Wiggler
(okay good I WASN'T SURE)
yaknog
THOUGHT OF THE HORSE
yaknog
WHICH HAD A MOVIE
yaknog
MADE ABOUT IT
Peil Wiggler
It makes me think of the actual horse and it makes me think of BoJack
MY GREY LADY 🐈
god 2010 was 9 years ago I feel like the movie came out not that long ago
BANNED CLOWN
Well the IMPORTANT thing is that I am NOT totally bananas for assuming Secretariat's existence is reasonably common knowledge
Xylophone
I assumed it was too lmao
🐅 its harry
yeah i was gonna say like i thought all of us had watched bojack horseman by now
BANNED CLOWN
I haven't,
decaf coffee
Seabiscuit, Secretariat, and Pot-oooooooo are the only horses anyone cares about
BANNED CLOWN
This is Man o War erasure
go тo вread
I thought of horse
Xylophone
who the hell is Pot-ooooooo
Xylophone
is that a real horse
BANNED CLOWN
A horse whose name resulted from a misunderstanding
BANNED CLOWN
About "potatoes"
FloppyFeet
OH THE MOVIE IS THE NONMEMORY I ALMOST HAD
FloppyFeet
i dont know shit about horses or horse movies but that sure came out when i still watched tv sometimes so i remember the trailers
dead characters
yeah there's a whole arc in bojack where he decides to do a secretariat biopic. in addition to the real world movie. as racehorses go he's pretty high-profile in pop culture
ArtIsArt
Yeah, there was a movie, right?
BIG DAD ENERGY
Yes
fish deranged
yeah i was gonna say I don't care at all about horse sport
fish deranged
but i know secretariat and seabiscuit are fast
BIG DAD ENERGY
i had a model of Secretariat for YEARS
𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕖
I am the one who's never heard of him
decaf coffee
OH TRUE I forgot about man o war
BANNED CLOWN
Secretariat is basically the template against which all modern race horses are measured, which is sort of asinine as the qualities that made him so successful are not isolated factors, but people love to think they can math it out.
BANNED CLOWN
Man o War is an undersung horse comparatively,
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(I don't even LIKE racing vdhbdtvstfw)
TC (Also Satan)
Horse!
BANNED CLOWN
HORSE,
TC (Also Satan)
I didn't read the thing until I posted
TC (Also Satan)
/shares cookies with Raile
BANNED CLOWN
That's valid. I'M GLAD MOST PEOPLE KNOW THE NAME TBH
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:0
TC (Also Satan)
man I went through my racehorse kick when I was a tiny TC
TC (Also Satan)
horses are a thing at certain ages
Xylophone
I had a model of Man O War
BANNED CLOWN
Whaaaaaaaat
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I want one!!
ɗυ boiѕ°
It makes me think of bojack horseman despite knowing secretariat was a real horse
Xylophone
actually I still have that somewhere probably
Xylophone
I did not have one of secretariat
BANNED CLOWN
RIP Secretariat.... this is your legacy now
Xylophone
what
Xylophone
I killed Secretariat?
BANNED CLOWN
You did now!! (Actually no he developed laminitis and was euthanised but he was like 20 so)
Xylophone
I just looked it up he died before I was born
Xylophone
so I am Not Guilty
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LOL
son boy allowed
Yes
Rowan
I thought that was a job title....
Rowan
I am shamed
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It IS an administrative office,
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But
Xylophone
it's that too
Xylophone
imagine, an AU where Secretariat becomes a secretariat
BANNED CLOWN
dsafasdFS A Roman emperor tried that and it ended poorly
Xylophone
tried... what
ɗυ boiѕ°
to be fair it was mostly him threatening to do it than it actually happening
BANNED CLOWN
I did say "tried"
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It still didn't go so hot in the long run
Xylophone
who what why
ɗυ boiѕ°
it went pretty poorly
BANNED CLOWN
A horse.
Xylophone
oh... dear
ɗυ boiѕ°
tl;dr don't be a dick and tell a group of people who hate you that your horse could do a better job than them
Rowan
I AM NOT SHAMED
I AM NOT SHAMED
Xylophone
imagine how much better secretariat could have been if his oat had gold flakes in it
BANNED CLOWN
fdsjkgdf
Xylophone
maybe then he would have been worthy of me having a model of him
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
yes that's that goddamn horse
BANNED CLOWN
"That goddamn horse" what did Secretariat do to you
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
like i was like this triggers something and then i realized who was making the plurk and I went IT'S THAT FUCKING HORSE THAT'S RIGHT
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
so it's more "raile's making a damn horse plurk again"
BANNED CLOWN
OH well yeah you got me there, this is who I am, I'm the guy who just starts yelling about horses every few months (weeks?)
ArtIsArt
Time is meaningless.
ArtIsArt
RE my latest plurk.
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
yeah this IS who you are, etc
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
but just imagine like, the sudden slam on of the brakes on my train of thought set to IT'S A FUCKING HORSE
BANNED CLOWN
dsaFGSMAS