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Gary Bauer Falls Off Stage During N.h. Pancake Flip

January 31, 2000

A small crowd watched on Monday in Manchester, N.H., as GOP presidential contender Gary Bauer flipped a pancake into the air, followed it with his eyes and tried to catch it with his griddle, moving back, back, back.

He backed right off the stage, disappearing through a blue curtain.

His griddle pan was bent, but Bauer was unhurt. Aides rushed to help him climb back through the curtain onto the low stage, and his second attempt at flipping and catching a pancake was successful.

Bauer, a conservative activist who trails in the polls, followed Republican front-runner George W. Bush on stage at the event.

Bush flipped his pancake high into the air and caught it on a spatula, undeterred by a group of political hecklers.