# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 246
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4901 "2026-06-29T15:04:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > No, field hockey is a thing here too, but it used sticks. > > Ball hockey, as we played it in school, you just kick the ball with your foot. Isn’t that just… Forget it, Jake. It’s Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4902 "2026-06-29T15:05:52Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Isn’t that just… Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4903 "2026-06-29T15:09:06Z")
Yep! My first thought to. Replace the puck with a ball, take away the sticks and the ice and goal is to kick the ball into a net guarded by a designated player? I think we might have a name for that sport already. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4904 "2026-06-29T15:12:02Z")
Quidditch? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4905 "2026-06-29T15:23:03Z")
American guy here. ‘Ball Hockey’, by Canadians, makes me feel a little bit afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4906 "2026-06-29T15:33:44Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > ‘Ball Hockey’, by Canadians, makes me feel a little bit afraid. It reminds me of the euphemistic tern “pocket pool”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4907 "2026-06-29T15:40:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It reminds me of the euphemistic tern “pocket pool”. For that matter, pool could probably be called “table hockey” in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4908 "2026-06-29T17:38:35Z")
Of course there’s also water polo. Which is more or less the idea of soccer / fútbol or ice hockey but played in a swimming pool. So maybe the Canucks can call their version water hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4909 "2026-06-29T17:40:59Z")
Earlier versions of water polo included the horses but they objected to having to swim. Also they needed a really big pool. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4910 "2026-06-29T17:56:16Z")
I suppose the Canadians could also rename their national sport to “ice polo”. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4911 "2026-06-29T17:56:28Z")
It’s actually “[Underwater Hockey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_hockey)”, in which we asked, “Why not water polo, but with even better chances of drowning?” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4912 "2026-06-29T18:04:19Z")
So is regular polo called Horse Hockey? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4913 "2026-06-29T18:06:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Earlier versions of water polo included the horses but they objected to having to swim. You can use seahorses! But then you’d have to have really, **really** small players. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4914 "2026-06-29T18:10:32Z")
I’ve got it! Sea horses, ridden by sea monkeys! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4915 "2026-06-29T18:21:14Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > So is regular polo called Horse Hockey? No, no NO! Horse Hockey is just like regular horse polo but the ball is replaced by a solidified horse shit AKA “road apple”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4916 "2026-06-29T18:24:29Z")
Training the horses to travel on ice skates is the trickiest part of Horse Hockey. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4917 "2026-06-29T18:29:09Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I think we might have a name for that sport already Two names, in fact. We don’t need a third. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4918 "2026-06-29T18:33:08Z")
Some research says this dog can ice skate. Sorta. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cQip7OGSYS0/maxresdefault.jpg "How This Rescue Dog Learned To Ice-Skate") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQip7OGSYS0) These folks have a quad-robot that can at least swizzle if not exactly skate: > **[Quadruped Ice Skating Robot Skatebot Can Compete With Hockey Players](https://mobygeek.com/features/quadruped-robot-can-now-play-hockey-2521)** > > A research team at ETH Zurich’s Computational Robotics Laboratory created a four-legged robot that can move on the ice, the Skatebot. I’m thinking teaching horses would be far harder than dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4919 "2026-06-29T18:37:15Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Training the horses to travel on ice skates is the trickiest part of Horse Hockey. Horses play basketball hoop hockey better than ice hockey because traveling is prohibited in the former. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4920 "2026-06-29T18:49:27Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > A Canadian comedian had a bit on this back in the 80s. “What do you call darts? “Needle Hockey”?” You mean wall curling? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=245) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=247)