>     The Young Potato
>
> You know that all potatoes have eyes. Well, Mr. and Mrs.
> Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married, and had a
>little sweet potato
> whom they called 'Yam.'
>
> Of course, they wanted the best for Yam. When it was time, they told
> her about the facts of life. They warned her about going out and getting
> half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad name for
> herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots.
>
> Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a
>rotten potato
> out of her! But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become a Couch
> Potato, either. She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like
> her Shoestring cousins. When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato
> told Yam to watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland, and the greasy
> guys from France called the French Fries. And when she went out west, to
> watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped. Yam said she
>would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with those
>high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the
> other side of the tracks who advertise their trade on all the trucks that
>say, 'Frito Lay.'
>
> Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P. U. (that's Potato University) so
>that when she
> graduated she'd really be in the Chips. But in spite of all they did for
> her, one day, Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.
> Tom Brokaw! Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset. They told Yam she couldn't
> possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just a...
>
>
>
> ...Common Tater
>
>

John A. Lynch, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, #2252
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598


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