- Potato Sack exercise for improved strength and fitness
- Job for a Potato?
- Funny Potato Jokes
- Know Your Taters
- Our Resident Couch Potato
- Potato Festival
- Leak Soup?
- Twelve Rules of Life
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∇Potato Sack exercise for improved strength and fitness: 
Will has just come across this exercise,
suggested for 'seniors', to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders. It seems so easy, so I thought I'd pass it on to some of my friends and family. The article suggested doing it three days a week.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you
can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax.
Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10lb potato sacks.
Then 50lb potato sacks and
then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
(As I write this I have to admit that I'm at this level)
After
you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.
Job for a Potato?
Peter visits a watchmaker and asks if it's possible to make a clock out of potatoes. Iain, the experienced watchmaker, replied it's possible to make a clock out of just about anything, but he'd never made one out of potatoes before, and he'd have to do some research. Later that day Iain calls Peter, the customer, and tells him he can make one, but it will take about two weeks before it's ready.
A fortnight later the Peter calls back and lo and behold the clock is ready. Delighted with the result, he pays the watchmaker and starts to leave the shop, when the Iain says, 'Errr, excuse me for asking, but this was a most unusual request; may I enquire why you want a clock made out of potatoes?' 'Certainly,' replies Peter, 'Just before I saw you last, I went for a job interview and we discussed my skills and experience. The interview went pretty well and the man said I could have the job providing I could get a potato clock.'Funny Potato Jokes
- How do you describe an angry potato? Boiling Mad.
- Why didn't the mother potato want her daughter to marry the famous newscaster? Because he was a commontater.
- Why wouldn't the reporter leave the mashed potatoes alone? He desperately wanted a scoop.
- What do you say to an angry 300-pound baked potato? Anything, just butter him up.
- What does a British potato say when it thinks something is wonderful? It's mashing!
Know Your Taters
Some people never seem motivated to participate, but are just content to watch while others do the work. They are called 'Spec Taters'.



Our Resident Couch Potato

However, We Do Have a Fit Bird

Potato Festival
Small and pink, black and bumpy,
even grey and shrivelled -- the potato took centre stage on Tuesday as Bolivian peasants admired each other's
prize produce at an Andean harvest festival.
Hundreds of villagers dressed in traditional
ceremonial dress of bright red ponchos and shawls gathered in the highland village of Pillapi to show off 32 varieties of potato, swap tips, dance and share a typical potato picnic.

Give Peas a Chance
A Cheltenham mum is to undergo therapy to help her overcome her fear of peas. Louise Arnold flees restaurants if she spots peas on a plate and gets anxious if she sees them in a supermarket. Now Louise, 35, is to undergo therapy as part of an ITV show called Phobias in a bid to cure her irrational fear. She will see counsellors, hypnotherapists and acupuncturists to tackle the phobia which began after the birth of daughter Chloe, five.
Our Pet Hate

Twelve Rules of Life
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- My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
- No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite government programme.
- If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
- Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques
- Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
- A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
- Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
- Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
- Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.