Litmus for search engines

[cantdog]

Here it is. One of those 'button'-type round metal pins.

It says ® M H Liles 1964© along the rim, and it is actually about an inch across.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sysladobsis/PatchthePony.jpg

I used Ask. com and Google and Yahoo search to look up what the hell it referred to. There was quite a disparity in the different search engines. This thing is really obscure.

Just a curio. But I know which search engine to use, now.

 

[glynndah]

I'm curious. Is Patch the name of the pony or what you're supposed to do to it?

 

[cantdog]

I know.

 

[glynndah]

So tell me.

 

[cantdog]

So tell me.

No I meant "I realize what an ambiguous title it is"-- we asked ourselves the same question.

But I do know, now. Patch the Pony is the main character in a children's book my Margaret Liles, witten on the theme of "strangers". Patch is the pony's name, and the drawing of him seems to show us that he has an eyepatch. No one in the whole universe, evidently, has ever heard of Patch the Pony. The best search engines didn't uncover very much. There is a place which is selling a tape with a filmstrip, where the tape reads the story and the filmstrip contains the illustrations. The filmstrip and cassette were copyright 1979, "based on the book The Legend of Patch the Pony by Margaret H. Liles", which book, I suppose, must have been published in 1964.

 

[Guest]

You've probably already seen the website I found, then.

http://www.patchthepony.com/default.htm

They're using it to teach kids about self-protection.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/patch.gif

Cute pony.