Talk:Slo-Poke

Why is it called the slo-poke?

Does anyone have any idea why this hat is called the Slo-Poke? Makes no sense to me because it's just a cowboy hat. Maybe an obscure reference? Magnum101 (talk) 14:15, 10 July 2015 (PDT)

Maybe it has to do with the term cowpoke, another word for cowboy, combined with the term slowpoke(a person who moves slowly), with the joke being that the soldier is slow? CptSparky652 (talk) 07:32, 1 December 2017 (PST)

This might not be the present popular perception of the word origin, but this is the Western folk origin. It was definitely associated with Western U.S. cattle ranching. Cowboys were also called cowpunch and cowpoke, from how cattle were driven through pasture, gates, pens, or chutes with whatever prods or pokes were convenient. You never poked the first one to go through the gate, didn't need to. You only poked the last one, the slowest. Whether speaking of cattle or children, we understood that "Hurry up, slowpoke!" was meant for whoever was being the "cow's tail".

So, the item name is definitely a Western reference to Soldier always being "the last one through the gate" ( physically or mentally), whether or not the name is also a double refernce to the Pokemon. Mikado282 (talk) 17:46, 1 December 2017 (PST)