"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:

michael adams

Spot the deliberate mistake.

Incorrect capitalisation?


Nah, I misspelled the possessive as "it's" myself, in the original post.



michael adams

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Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Rupert" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
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"David Henderson" wrote in message
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Indeed it's actual botanical is name euphorbia pulcherima.

Its called Euphorbia pulcherrima actually (pedant mode on).


It's "it's" actually; when "it's" represents the contraction
rather the possessive.

What a shame to spoil such an original and highly amusing spelling
flame, with such a display of manifest illiteracy.


michael adams

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Spot the deliberate mistake.



"Rather than" you'd have --had


Nah, I misspelled the possessive as "it's" myself, in the original post.


michael adams

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"Phil L" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:
"Rupert" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I saw a nice looking pot plant the other day, and would like to get
one for the home, but have not a clue what it would be called, or
even genus.

It was very christmassy having green leaves on the bottom half and
bright red leaves at the top. Leaves about 10cm span, and quite
soft. Height around 40cm.

Does anyone have an idea of what plant this might be? All
suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
Stephen.

If it is what we now believe it to be then this site will give you
useful ino about the plant
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/


Good thinking. That should come in useful if the O.P. misses the link
I left to that particular site around 2 hours ago, as you seem to have
done.



michael adams


Calm down FFS, everyone can read, no one's trying to steal your thunder!

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If you want to try and order people about, I suggest you stick to your
wife and your kids. Either that or get a job as a Traffic Warden.

Then when they tire of you, try talking to the trees in the park.

Only morons, inadequates, and control freaks with too high an opinion
of themselves are stupid enough to try and tell complete strangers
how to behave on Usenet.

I leave it up to you to decide in which of those categories you wish
to place yourself.

You prize buffoon.




michael adams

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michael adams wrote:

If you want to try and order people about, I suggest you stick to your
wife and your kids. Either that or get a job as a Traffic Warden.

Then when they tire of you, try talking to the trees in the park.

Only morons, inadequates, and control freaks with too high an opinion
of themselves are stupid enough to try and tell complete strangers
how to behave on Usenet.


I see, so me telling you to calm down is not at all like you telling me to
talk to trees or become a traffic warden?
.....and you were doing quite well up until then..

I leave it up to you to decide in which of those categories you wish
to place yourself.

Obvously the same one as you!

You prize buffoon.

You prize buffoon.


BTW, To the OP spye22!! - me an Melanie think it's a poinsetta, which is
all you wanted to know really, without a bout of willy-waving and peurile
tantrums to confuddle the issue.

"Phil L" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:

If you want to try and order people about, I suggest you stick to your
wife and your kids. Either that or get a job as a Traffic Warden.

Then when they tire of you, try talking to the trees in the park.

Only morons, inadequates, and control freaks with too high an opinion
of themselves are stupid enough to try and tell complete strangers
how to behave on Usenet.


I see, so me telling you to calm down is not at all like you telling me to
talk to trees or become a traffic warden?

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No it isn't at all.

You issued a blanket instruction - which you've chosen to snip for some
unaccountable reason. You wrote as folllows -

" Calm down FFS, everyone can read, no one's trying to steal your thunder!

Whereas my suggestion to you was conditional on your wanting to order
people about. Namely

" If you want to try and order people about, I suggest you...."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So if you don't in fact want to order people about, then you've got nothing
to
complain about have you ?

I suggest you brush up on your reading and comprehension skills before
getting involved in any of the really complicated stuff.




rest of the rubbish snipped


You prize buffoon.

michael adams

wrote:
Hi all,

I saw a nice looking pot plant the other day, and would like to get
one for the home, but have not a clue what it would be called, or
even
genus.

It was very christmassy having green leaves on the bottom half and
bright red leaves at the top. Leaves about 10cm span, and quite
soft.
Height around 40cm.

Does anyone have an idea of what plant this might be? All
suggestions
appreciated.

As everybody else has said, it's a poinsettia: note that there are
also cream-coloured ones. Others have also pointed you to a website
with instructions for getting it to perform next Christmas. I've done
it, and found it very interesting; but I was the only person who was
impressed. You get more "flowers" (they aren't exactly flowers in the
ordinary sense), but they're a heck of a lot smaller, and may not be
so bright, and the plants get gawky and leggy. In the trade, they get
treated with a chemical dwarfing agent to stop them growing up --
like Olympic gymnasts in some countries!

The nearer we get to Christmas, the cheaper they become, so I'd buy
new ones every year if the only object was cheerful Christmas
decoration. I haven't checked with my mother, who is the Fount of
Wisdom (if she hasn't yet been strangled by the homicidally-insane
Monstera deliciosa in her conservatory), but I think I remember we
had them growing outdoors in Oz when I was a boy. They aren't natural
over here, and for a long-term plant they're a bit of a nuisance.

--
Mike.

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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

As everybody else has said, it's a poinsettia: note that there are
also cream-coloured ones. Others have also pointed you to a website
with instructions for getting it to perform next Christmas. I've done
it, and found it very interesting; but I was the only person who was
impressed. You get more "flowers" (they aren't exactly flowers in the
ordinary sense), but they're a heck of a lot smaller, and may not be
so bright, and the plants get gawky and leggy. In the trade, they get
treated with a chemical dwarfing agent to stop them growing up --
like Olympic gymnasts in some countries!

The nearer we get to Christmas, the cheaper they become, so I'd buy
new ones every year if the only object was cheerful Christmas
decoration. I haven't checked with my mother, who is the Fount of
Wisdom (if she hasn't yet been strangled by the homicidally-insane
Monstera deliciosa in her conservatory), but I think I remember we
had them growing outdoors in Oz when I was a boy. They aren't natural
over here, and for a long-term plant they're a bit of a nuisance.

They grow outdoors in Madeira, as a common, large and spectacular shrub.

Janet