I love eating potatoes...
hmm...
There are two letters in "potatoes" that are duplicated: the 'o' and the 't'. If we eliminate one of both of those, we can get either "potaes", "poates", "ptaoes", or "patoes". Unless I have missed some, there are four possible combinations. Now let's look at the original word again. Eliminate the letters that have duplicates. Now we are left with "paes". This is half the total number of characters in the word "potatoes". Notice that both the word without the duplicated letters, and the number of combinations of the words without one of the duplicated letters, are equal. Also notice that both of the numbers are half of 8. There are also 4 words in the original sentence. 4+4+4=12. There are three groups of 4. As previously mentioned, 4 is half of the original number of characters in the word "potatoes".
Half Life 3 confirmed!!!
Sometimes, I lie in bed, thinking to myself about what life would be like if we didn't have feet...