NMissCommentor » Humor and Dart Throwing http://nmisscommentor.com A blog from the hills in North Mississippi Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:18:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sweet Potatoes in the news http://nmisscommentor.com/humor/sweet-potatoes-in-the-news/ http://nmisscommentor.com/humor/sweet-potatoes-in-the-news/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:48 +0000 NMC http://nmisscommentor.com/?p=761 Congressman Gene Taylor Travis Childers (whose district does not include the sweet potato capital of the world) is seeking $400,000 in federal funds for research to turn sweet potatoes into a biofuel.

I know there’s a relevant sweet potato joke lurking in there somewhere but I’m just not seeing it right now.

Update: The [...]]]> Congressman Gene Taylor Travis Childers (whose district does not include the sweet potato capital of the world) is seeking $400,000 in federal funds for research to turn sweet potatoes into a biofuel.

I know there’s a relevant sweet potato joke lurking in there somewhere but I’m just not seeing it right now.

Update: The series of bullets in the Clarion Ledger piece threw me; as Researcher pointed out in comments, I just misread the article. It’s a request from Congressman Childers, and is very much connected to the interests of his district, which contains the sweet potato capital of the world.

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