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http://983thesnake.com/giant-potato-lumbering-toward-twin-falls/

4/3/2012 10:32:42 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

I would like to see the lifting tarp that waZ made for thiZ BIg One....

4/3/2012 10:37:50 AM

Pocatello ([email protected])

That's my potato. The story references Pole Line Rd., which is right here in Pocatello. I wish I could get the pumpkins to be as big as my potatoes.

4/3/2012 12:16:37 PM

Webster, NY

Check this out for more info, if interested

http://www.bigidahopotato.com/

4/3/2012 12:22:12 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Helpful Idaho facts!

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, was born in Bear Lake, Idaho. He did his famous work in South Dakota after redoing the Grand Tetons. Little known fact, this mountain celebrates Dolly Parton.
Idaho is America's largest lumber producer. Unfortunately, most people do not want an end table carved in potato.
The word "Idaho" comes from an Indian word, "E-dah-how", meaning I can't believe it! The white man really wants this forsaken place!
Idaho is home to numerous private militias, which, like their minuteman forefathers, have orders to shoot anyone uttering the word “tax.”
Idaho has opposed all efforts to designate Democrats as an endangered species. No Democrat has come forward to object..
Hell's Canyon in Idaho is 7,900 feet deep, which makes it both deeper than the Grand Canyon AND a possible place where Democrats may have gone to avoid Republican neighbors.
The state bird of Idaho is the Bluebird, a problem since it keeps getting eaten by all the raptors, wolves, coyotoes and grizzlies….
Idaho is home to North America's largest sand dune. It's 470 feet tall. It likely has Democrats at the bottom of it. Inside.
Appaloosa horses originated in Idaho and were first bred by the local Indians as a war animal. Then the gun came along.
The first nuclear power plant in the US was built in Arco, Idaho in 1953. There is a nice ambience or glow to the area at night, if you know what I mean.
The firefighting ax was invented in Wallace, Idaho. But so far its use has been limited here. No matter how much you hack at the flames, the fire keeps burning.
Television was invented in Rigby, Idaho. Now we know why the city produces the dumbest Idahoans.
In 1896, Butch Cassidy robbed the bank in Montpelier, Idaho. He would not take russets in lieu of cash.

4/3/2012 12:42:23 PM

Minnesota

They will never finish Crazy Horse monument in S.D. I was also a fire fighter sent out west to fight fires in 88, in Montana, Idaho. We carried a firefighting ax, they got heavy after walking miles thru the heat.

4/3/2012 2:34:16 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

I remember the fires of '88. You could see the smoke 200 miles away.

4/3/2012 3:23:47 PM

Colorado

Southern Colorado is home to the great sand dunes national park with a dune of 750 feet and one 650 feet, 150,000 acres.

4/3/2012 7:21:57 PM

Linden, Mi.,

Michigan, with 3 Great Lakes

4/3/2012 8:04:40 PM

Central Ca

I remember that sign on the highway passing through Rigby the says Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television. This is the only time I've ever used that knowledge in the past 15 yrs. lol

4/4/2012 2:06:58 AM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Yes, I'm friends with some Farnsworth descendants who live in the area. They are disappointed that the boob tube has disproportionally benefited Democrats.

(The above is an attempt at HUMOR, not meant to be a political statement.)

4/4/2012 2:20:58 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Hey, our sand dunes are the biggest we've ever seen!

If you watch "Napoleon Dynamite", grandma breaks her tailbone while riding ATVs at the sand dunes... that's a reference to our dunes. More useless Idaho trivia for ya!

T-minus 11 days for planting...

4/4/2012 2:25:13 PM

Minnesota

Does'nt the Lewis and Clark trail go thru Idaho? there is'nt many animals there, Lewis and Clark had to eat one of there horses.

4/4/2012 2:43:58 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Yes, the Lewis and Clark trail passes through northern Idaho. The Oregon Trail passes a few miles from my house.

It makes sense that they may have run out of food. The original buffalo range seems to end near the continental divide, which would be generally the Montana/Idaho border. Buffalo fed people on this continent for millennia until the government exterminated them. (I believe this spell-checker does not recognize the word millennia.)

4/4/2012 4:19:28 PM