if you will also try out for the Flying Karamozov Brothers?

(Or is this really in reference to potatoes?)

just handing off task after task to other people to complete, because while it was given to me the bugs aren't caused by the code I can fix.

a catapult though to let some of the bugs go flying through the air instead

it would be a lot more fun than handing the bugs off by e-mail!

that visual! I was thinking juggling, but I see now why you selected hot potatoes as your metaphor.