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Archer Opteryx
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01-27-2007 11:58 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
01-27-2007 1:22 AM

Let's call the whole thing off
that's the way things are. point a, point c, point d, t, o, m, a, t, o, e - tomatoe
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You spell tomatoe, I spell tomato...
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Archer Opteryx
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01-27-2007 12:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
01-27-2007 1:22 AM

t, o, m, a, t, o, e - tomatoe
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I see Elliott Smith is a friend of Dan Quayle's.
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Archer Opteryx
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01-31-2007 5:12 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by joshua221
01-31-2007 4:53 PM

The allusion is to a c.1991 episode involving then-Vice President Dan Quayle. During a publicity op at an elementary school, he corrected a kid's spelling of potato by adding an e at the end.
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