On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:23:43 GMT in 3n4Ye.15861$fb6.1878@trnddc08 J Fortuna wrote:

What do you think about the mentions of orchids in pop-culture, books,
movies, and what-not?

I'm reminded of Heinlein's quip in "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" which
amounted to "Authors that write about what they know end up starving."

Plus, with the garbage I read it'll be something like
"Hiro Protagonist opened the airtight container for the bulbophyllum
Phalaenopsis to clear the room," in the event they get something
close to right.
Except it'll end up, by random chance, a non-stinking bulbophyllum
species because the author heard that bulbos stink and randomly
picked a species because he couldn't be bothered to do the research
and didn't want to go with the obvious of first or last in alphabetical
order.

By the way, are the novels you are reading the same sort of stuff
Heinlein's fictional author wrote?
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Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil