Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: A tough nut Everyone seems to be having trouble with this one. The kids are in a circle, each holding a fist in front of him/her. The procedure may have been used to choose sides. The leader taps each on fist in succession as he/she chants: One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more. Then follows one or the other of the following, or maybe both, but if so, in what order? My mother told me to take this one, tapping each one on fist (or/&) O, U, T spells out goes you, you dirty old dishrag, you. Some say that it ends: "My mother told me to take this one, you dirty old dishrag you" & that "O,U, T spells out-goes-you" belongs to something else. Bill Carroll