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Apr 28, 2016 · After inaccurately correcting a 12-year-old during a 6th-grade spelling bee, the relentless media coverage of the goof ensures the VP never hears the end of it. ...more.
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May 28, 2014 · Vice President Dan Quayle misspells the word potato; "corrects" a student's spelling of the word by having him add an 'e' at the end; potatoe.
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Aug 18, 2020 · Many years ago, Dan Quayle made a famous spelling mistake. This video explains it https://youtu.be/6tmoSGmvR1o ...Seeing this box reminded me of that. The wo...
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Sep 11, 2019 · Yep. Potato. For those who don’t remember, on June 15, 1992, Dan Quayle was making a routine campaign stop, pushing then-president George H.W. Bush’s “Weed and Seed” program at a Trenton, New Jersey, middle school, when he found himself presiding over a mock spelling bee.
Jun 15, 2012 · (Monday, June 15, 1992) — Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed Trenton, New Jersey, sixth-grade student William Figueroa to spell “potato” as “potatoe” during a spelling bee today.
1992: Dan Quayle and the 'potatoe' kid. Dan Quayle's moment of embarrassment. William Figueroa, 12, was the boy who knew how to spell "potato" even though the veep insisted on adding an "e" to the end. Just the other night on television, Jay Leno was poking fun at some gaffe by George W. Bush, whose picture morphed into a photograph of Dan ...
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Sep 10, 2019 · June 15, 1992—a day that will live in infamy. The day George H.W. Bush’s Vice President, Dan Quayle, told a 12-year-old that he misspelled “potato” whilst judging a 6th-grade spelling bee.
