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    ctranter — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 06:11 AM)

    Charlie Potatoes
    Anyone have any idea as to the etymology of this phrase?

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      imdb_mark — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 06:22 AM)

      Good question! I take it you're watching it on TV too?

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        ctranter — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 07:13 AM)

        Yes 🙂
        Just finished, very good I thought. But what was with that woman, She just met him, an escaped convict, and she wants to go away and live with him, leaving her kid. Now I know shes bored of her life, but

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          imdb_mark — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 08:29 AM)

          Yeah, i've never seen a relationship develop so quickly. All it took was a few admiring glances. 😉 Poor kid, if only he knew he was going to get left with his uncle while his mother made off with a convict.
          Great ending I thought! I remember liking the 80's remake too.
          As for "charlie potatoes", i'm curious of it's origins too. I've heard the phrase "charlie big potato" but i'm not sure if it's related.

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                krorie — 19 years ago(July 14, 2006 09:59 PM)

                Charlie Potatoes is a Southern slang term applied to men who think they are hot stuff, or to put it the way a person who uses the term would say it, "A Charlie Potatoes is a man who thinks his s**t don't stink." It possibly began as a reference to a man's gonads.
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                  BlondeVixen — 19 years ago(September 29, 2006 05:57 PM)

                  <"A Charlie Potatoes is a man who thinks his s**t don't stink.>
                  And ain't the word full of Charlie Potatoes then! 😕

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                    aitch-10 — 19 years ago(November 30, 2006 04:46 AM)

                    Small potatoes..(no cash)
                    Aitch,
                    http://web.ask.co.uk/web?q="Harry+Fielder"

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                      sassinator333 — 18 years ago(September 06, 2007 09:03 PM)

                      <<"A Charlie Potatoes is a man who thinks his s**t don't stink.>
                      "And ain't the word full of Charlie Potatoes then! :/" >>
                      and Charlene Potatoes. Lots of them also.

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                        bmkaisil — 19 years ago(September 11, 2006 03:27 PM)

                        potatoes as in cash
                        making anyone a big timer
                        so charley big time or charley potatoes

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                          salemslot9 — 18 years ago(April 09, 2007 08:15 AM)

                          I'm gonna buy me a pair
                          of buckskin shoes,
                          with a brand-new suit and a silk shirt.
                          And I'll be Charlie Potatoes,
                          comin' down the street,
                          with a Panama hat and a good-lookin' gal.
                          You're Charlie Potatoes, uh?

                          • Yeah.
                            You gonna dance down the street with
                            a gal on one arm and this on the other?
                            You gotta be Charlie Potatoes,
                            the man with the money.
                            Then you don't have to
                            bow down to nobody.
                            That's the way I'm gonna live.
                            Even when they didn't give me a tip
                            I still had to say thank you.
                            Saturday night in a gin mill,
                            bein' Charlie Potatoes with a blonde,
                            or maybe a redhead. Anythin' I wanted.
                            Tell me all about Charlie Potatoes, when
                            the chain's off and nobody's chasin' ya!
                            We gave 'em a helluva
                            run for it, didn't we?
                            Yeah.
                            (barking)
                            Charlie Potatoes.
                            I'm mashed potatoes now.
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                            soffee83 — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 11:30 PM)

                            I bet Barney Fife could tell you. If not, then Eddie Haskell.

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