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   Jean said, 3 months ago

   maybe if you said it “po-ta-toe” with a accent on the A. I can see the spelling if it is with a short A po-tah-toe"…..and before you say it, Yes I know there is no e at the end but that is how it is pronounced.
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   listmom said, 3 months ago

   ba-dum-CHING!
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   aircraft-engineer said, 3 months ago

   of course, IF you are bird brain Quayle, it’s “P-O-T-A-T-O-E” (and he’s supposed to be smarter than a 5th grader, too…)
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   Felix The Cat said, 3 months ago

   @aircraft-engineer

   At least Dan Quayle, unlike the current White House occupant, knows how many states there are. And there’s no excuse there — a nice round number.
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   whmIII said, 3 months ago

   @Felix The Cat

   Well said…
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   kaecispop said, 3 months ago

   @aircraft-engineer

   Actually, there is a rarely used spelling “potatoe”. At the school that Quayle was judging the spelling, potatoe was the spelling that the school required, and , though the spelling given by the contestant was correct by the national standard, was incorrect in that the school required the “e” at the end of the word.
   This in not much unlike the spelling of the word color or colour. The former is the American way of spelling the word. The later is the British way of spelling the same word.
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   Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago

   @aircraft-engineer

   I’m sure Quayle knows how to pronounce “corpsman” too.
   /btw that whole “potatoe” business was much misrepresented. That was how it was spelled on the card he was holding: “potatoes.”
   //Isn’t it really kind of sad how theyhave to reach so far back to these petty little moments? But they never quite remember the real goodies like “Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”
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   sandflea said, 3 months ago

   Tater.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   @Felix The Cat

   He wasn’t speaking about states but legislatures which are 57, not 50. But whatever myth you embrace without investigation you sound stupid.
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    comicsssfan said, 3 months ago

    @Penny Robinson Fan Club

    But where there’s smoke there’s fire. Quayle really may not have been all that bright, especially for the position he was in. But Bush liked him and that was all that mattered. Schwarzenegger talked about Bush’s nature in his book.
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    comicsssfan said, 3 months ago

    @Penny Robinson Fan Club

    If you look at LBJ’s bio you can see why he became so stubborn. He had a tough upbringing. And then McNamara took a lot of the heat for Vietnam.
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    Felix The Cat said, 3 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Wrong again, Einstein! I guess it’s better to sound stupid than to actually be stupid.
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    LOWRIDER84 said, 3 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    You know, you constantly whine on this site about “being poor” and having fallen on “hard times” and having difficulty “obtaining proper health care”.
    Perhaps it is your fawning adoration of evrything Obama that has contributed to your plight.
    Self-reliance and responsibility for your own life is far more likely to result in success than slavishly depending on the government to provide for you.
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