>Amazingly, your sig may answer your own question. Given that Roger is
>the ultra-rich type, it may be a charity/soup-kitchen thing.

They're making hula hoops out of potatoes?

>Dorothy. She joins Roger for dinner in the same ep, so I assume that
>she eats. That implies that she has a sort of fuel cell that extracts
>energy from organic material like you and I do (quite useful if you
>can't count on being plugged into a wall). As an android, she may
>well require more kilowatt-hours than you or I require calories.

But she mentions in the same episode about not needing it when offered some coffee or somesuch. Now, applying the potato-battery theory to Dorothy might be interesting, except I can't figure out where she'd put them...

Ahh, nevermind that, on second thought.

>As a third theory, apply the above principal to Big O.

"I'm worried, Master Smith. All my readings point to something big on the horizon."

"What do you mean, big?"

"Well, let's say this potato represents the normal amount of potato-based energy in the Paradigm City area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a potato thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."

"That's a big potato."

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