Greyhound - Cultural References - Other

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• Greyhound Bus Lines bus company occasionally airs television commercials starring a talking computer-generated Greyhound.
• The Andhra Pradesh (India) police force has a special ops unit named Greyhounds.
• "Greyhound" was the name of several roller coasters in the United States and Canada. None of these rides operate today.
• In Australia, racing Greyhounds are commonly known in slang terminology as "dish lickers" (e.g., "I just won 50 bucks at the dish lickers").
• The main-character family of the animated television series The Simpsons have a Greyhound named Santa's Little Helper.
• The cover art of the 1994 Britpop album "Parklife" by Blur features Greyhounds.
• The M8 Light Armored Car, a US military vehicle, was nicknamed "Greyhound" by British armed forces during the Second World War.
• Kite, a character from the anime/manga series Ginga Densetsu Weed is supposedly a Greyhound mix.
• In French, the sexual position known as doggy style is known as Position de la levrette (Position of the greyhound).