[fishtank]

Quayle DESTROYED algore in their debate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXU2BZIyqPA

Take that.

Oh, bye the way, potatoe is a valid spelling in classic literature.

Maybe Dan Quayle was familiar with older BOOKS - as in he is actually an educated person.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=potatoe

“Potatoe is an older but still correct spelling of the word more commonly word spelled potato. It turns out that Dan Quail and the young student were both correct in there spellings. The e at the end of potatoe was largely dropped by the end of the 20th century.”

[Ingtar]

It was also spelled with an E on the card he was given.

[pepsi_junkie]

“Potatoe is an older but still correct spelling of the word more commonly word spelled potato. It turns out that Dan Quail and the young student were both correct in there spellings. The e at the end of potatoe was largely dropped by the end of the 20th century.”

Umm, is there an old spelling of "Quayle" or "their" which makes this correct?

[hoosiermama]

Those of us in Indiana at the time were taught either or. But we didn’t have Al Gores Internet to prove we were correct