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Old 05-10-2013, 11:30 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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We'll see what shakes out when Hillary is passed over.
The Democrats were engaged in a war on women when they nominated a man for the presidency in 2008 rather than Mrs. Clinton.
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Old 05-10-2013, 11:36 PM
 
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Uh, what are you suggesting that Mrs. Harrier would do?

Harrier's mind is quite useful now.
No one could now question the depth of your faith in things for which there is no evidence. I know I certainly cannot.
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Old 05-10-2013, 11:38 PM
 
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That is a correct spelling of the word, and the school provided Vice President Quayle with materials that had it spelled that way.
Is that a correct spelling in the Bush-Palin Dictionary?
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Old 05-10-2013, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Democrats have no war on women.

Period.

Enough with your partisan BS, Harrier. You've lost in your own thread (again). Are you desperate for attention or upset that you can't marry your cat?
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Old 05-10-2013, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Democrats have no war on women.

Period.
Neither do Republicans.

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Enough with your partisan BS, Harrier. You've lost in your own thread (again). Are you desperate for attention or upset that you can't marry your cat?
I am pointing out liberal absurdity by being similarly absurd.
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:19 AM
 
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That is a correct spelling of the word, and the school provided Vice President Quayle with materials that had it spelled that way.
No. It's not. The only time an 'e' is added is in the plural form 'potatoes'.

Potatoe | Define Potatoe at Dictionary.com
No results found for potatoe:
Did you mean potato
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:27 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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No. It's not. The only time an 'e' is added is in the plural form 'potatoes'.

Potatoe | Define Potatoe at Dictionary.com
No results found for potatoe:
Did you mean potato
I've read that it is an acceptable, but not common spelling.

When I find that source I will point you in the right direction.

Anyways, the teacher gave him a card with the word spelled with an "e".

Blame the teacher if you are think that the student was being given bad information.
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:35 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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I've read that it is an acceptable, but not common spelling.

When I find that source I will point you in the right direction.

Anyways, the teacher gave him a card with the word spelled with an "e".

Blame the teacher if you are think that the student was being given bad information.
No, it is not. I come from the great potato state, and the word only has an 'e' in it when used as a plural, period, no exceptions. Same thing with tomato. The plural is tomatoes, period, no exceptions. Same with tornado. The plural is tornadoes, period, no exceptions.

it is no more acceptable than your is for you're, or there is for their. or looser for loser. Quayle was a loser.

The teacher did not hand Quayle a damned thing. She read the word aloud. That's aloud, not aloude.
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:45 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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The teacher did not hand Quayle a damned thing. She read the word aloud. That's aloud, not aloude.
She most certainly did hand him a card with the word spelled "potatoe".

Why are you engaging in historical revision?

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"Potatoe" was an accepted spelling through the 19th century, and the error was on a cue card provided by school authorities

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/...o-test-396523/

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Mr. Quayle, however, didn't see it that way. He glanced at a cue card, which spelled the word "potatoe."
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/op...or-effort.html

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Old 05-11-2013, 12:47 AM
 
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I've read that it is an acceptable, but not common spelling.

When I find that source I will point you in the right direction. .
You're welcome to waste your time.

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Anyways, the teacher gave him a card with the word spelled with an "e".

Blame the teacher if you are think that the student was being given bad information.
You want to blame a teacher for a Vice President not being able to spell a simple word like potato?

June 15, 1992: Dan Quayle Misspells Potato | Video - ABC News
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