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[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

the eternal dilemma of the irishman: should i eat it or make it into whisky?

[–]ManWithABanana 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Title of the article :

Potatoes and World History

The fun factoid included -

In 1992, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle was visiting an elementary school in New Jersey when a 12-year-old boy was asked to write “potato” on a chalk board. Quayle “corrected” the youngster by telling him the word has an “e” on the end of it. It doesn’t.

Seems Quayle got a bad rap over this one. It's easy to see the word written plural and think it would be singular just by removing the "S". I can't think of another word that behaves like this one does.