{"id":12094,"date":"2014-11-08T05:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T10:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2014-11-08T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T10:04:32","slug":"my-little-potatos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12094","title":{"rendered":"My little potatos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the posts that have been lining up like planes to land over the past week while the airport is down for repairs have turned into a sort of stew. I see bits of them sticking out like a cooked carrot here &#8211; my conversation with potential school board recruits or or an onion wedge there &#8211; accidentally bumping into a board member while driving around with another board member that he has accused of assault. But honestly, Its hard to reengineer a stew. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up early on Saturday morning but couldn&#8217;t really get my <em>laying in bed<\/em> thoughts moving. But I couldn&#8217;t sleep either. Opening the computer I was thinking about song lyrics which I&#8217;ve been collecting for the past five or more years to sing to my Mother in lieu of conversation which has been lost to her dementia. Lately I&#8217;ve been coming up with more songs to add to the 1,500 or so I&#8217;ve put in a three ring binder. The latest one is &#8220;My Little Potato&#8221; by the music trio Metamora:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;re my little potato, you&#8217;re my little potato,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my little potato, they dug you up,<br \/>\nYou come from underground, <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I play no instruments and so in the acapella I miss all the funky percussion of the original but Claudia and I trotted it out Thursday morning as our grandsons got ready for school and daycare. I&#8217;ve been pulling out the most singable songs to put in a smaller (100 page) three-ring binder of songs to sing to my grandsons. Lately I&#8217;ve taken to singing them to sleep like I did my children twenty-five years ago. After they listened to and danced to a choral version of the song we asked them what they thought the potato was. At least it wasn&#8217;t as mixed a metaphor as this posts first paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>We have been helping the older boy with his spelling tests of late. I&#8217;m a natural because I used to be the pronouncer at regional spelling bees for better than ten years running. Which brings me to the spelling of potato. Its got quite a legacy. In the 1992 election the spelling of the word became a great issue\/gaffe in the Presidential campaign. (Ah the innocence of the past) Poor old Dan Quayle, Vice President of the US was made a national laughing stalk when he told a grade school kid in a photo op that he hadn&#8217;t put an e at the end of potato like the card the VP had been handed moments before showed. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalcentury.com\/1992.html\">back story<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>It took out Bush and Quayle in 92 with the same lethality that Ebola had on the Democrats this year. <\/p>\n<p>Darn thing is that you do find the o in potato followed by an e quite often when it becomes plural &#8211; potatoes much like heroes and possibly zeroes and smores. Oh wait, forget that last example with the graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate squares. I&#8217;m not sure if the oe thing is British spelling like adding the u in colour or honour. Over the decade quite a few websites have addressed the issue. <\/p>\n<p>OK, that little ramble has gotten my blogging juices flowing. 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