So that our readers will not be under informed on earthshaking events, I will pass along word from the United Nations that 2008 will be the international year of the potato. [1]
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No, really. at first, this kind of thing would seem contrived, as so many United Nations projects are. But this one, actually make some sense.
Let’s see here. The potato is round,and usually an ugly thing, yet starchy and stiff. It gets soft when the heat is on. It grows best in the mud… mud which can be easily picked up and thrown by any passerby, mud which smells suspiciously like cattle droppings.
How fitting, that the UN should tie itself to such a project.