Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:25:14 UTC, Tim Tyler opined:


Stan Goodman wrote or quoted:

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:53:43 UTC, Tim Tyler opined:

Stan Goodman wrote or quoted:

Why is it difficult to understand that a vegetable is something that is
neither animal nor mineral [...]

I'm not sure how to understand your answers below, so (at the risk of being
accused of not having a sense of humor, I do it straight:


Because of mushrooms and bacteria ;-)

Mushrooms are certainly vegetables: they are life, so they aren't mineral;
they aren't animal. What's left? [...]

Briefly:

Eubacteria, Archaea, Protists, Fungi - and possibly viruses (as well
as plants).


This kind of obfuscation borders on the malicious.

LOFL.

Technical difference - Abbott vs Costello