>>In terms of the potentates of edible states,
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>You know it's way past time to stop reading the new Eyrie goodies and
>go to bed when you read this sentence as "the potatoes"...

The self-proclaimed Potentate of Potatoes, being given to obnoxious, socially-awkward pranks against his subjects, is often referred to (behind his back -- never to his face) as the Dick Tater.

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding