We've heard of couch potatoes, but flying seated spuds?, writes Brian Byrne.
That's just the thing that Boeing recently used to simulate human passengers while testing the effects of in-flight wireless signals for passengers' internet use.
They put 20,000lb of potaties in a decomissioned aircraft for the tests, then later replicated the results with real people on other flights.
One wonders if the boarding cards all referred to 'Spud Murphys'?