Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:08:52 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Iggy, was: Ship-Con and Camp-Con (was: Re: [WSFA]Re:Balticon in ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:
> At 08:24 PM 3/15/05 -0500, Ted White wrote:

>>While I don't recall any "bouncing potatoes," I do recall Bill Rotsler
>>creating cartoon faces on fried eggs, which were then auctioned.
>
> Even the song didn't really have bouncing potatoes...they were sarcasm of
> the "what's next?  Bouncing potatoes?" sort.

'Way before my time, too.  However, I heard that the "bouncing potatos"
were real.  At the banquet (? restaurant?), Karen Anderson, appalled by
the food, dropped a potato.  It bounced.

Hence the song.

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