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a truly baffling question about strawberries
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from Rod contains these words: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:54:59 -0500, "Ricky" wrote: "Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message ... Ricky said: "Kay Easton" wrote A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside name another? The common dandelion -- the individual seeds are on the outside of a fleshy pad. and the dandelion is a fruit? You aren't paying attention :~) You asked about seeds on the outside and Pat answered the question you asked. Dunno where the rest of these have gone, but Rod's post is the only one in the thread here. The dandelion is a fruit? Yes, technically the seed-head is. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen
declared: (And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to rec.gardening for cross-trolls...) I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they called strawberries if they don't look like straw?" -- Sean O'Hara Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening. --Coupling |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
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from Rod contains these words: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:54:59 -0500, "Ricky" wrote: "Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message ... Ricky said: "Kay Easton" wrote A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside name another? The common dandelion -- the individual seeds are on the outside of a fleshy pad. and the dandelion is a fruit? You aren't paying attention :~) You asked about seeds on the outside and Pat answered the question you asked. Dunno where the rest of these have gone, but Rod's post is the only one in the thread here. The dandelion is a fruit? Yes, technically the seed-head is. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
human males are fussy about it?
lucy "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... In article , meat n potatoes writes i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the seeds all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and juicy. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch. The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the outside ;-) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
human males are fussy about it?
lucy "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... In article , meat n potatoes writes i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the seeds all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and juicy. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch. The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the outside ;-) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
human males are fussy about it?
lucy "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... In article , meat n potatoes writes i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the seeds all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and juicy. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch. The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the outside ;-) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
The message
from "Ricky" contains these words: "Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message ... Ricky said: "Kay Easton" wrote A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside name another? The common dandelion -- the individual seeds are on the outside of a fleshy pad. and the dandelion is a fruit? You did`nt specify fruit Ricky. G /me whispers..."you have to be careful with gardeners, they can be VERY precise with their answears" |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Too much for you ape brain to handle?
A strawberry isn't a berry at all in the botanical sense. Its actually a fleshy receptacle with the seeds embedded in it. "meat n potatoes" wrote in message om... i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Frankly Scarlet, nobody gives a flying fig!!
You do a very poor Seinfeld impression. They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. You can spend the rest of your days pondering the mystery of "Grape Nuts". They're not nuts and there's no grapes in them. So what's the big deal? "Sean O'Hara" wrote in message ... In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen declared: (And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to rec.gardening for cross-trolls...) I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they called strawberries if they don't look like straw?" -- Sean O'Hara Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening. --Coupling |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus!
Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... In article , meat n potatoes writes i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the seeds all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and juicy. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch. The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the outside ;-) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Cereus-validus wrote: They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. More mystery than you apparently think. If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in Europe knew that native Americans existed? I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set until a little later but the name was there. I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw, the name slowly evolved into strawberry. I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-) Steve |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
You no fool me Steverino,
You're making that up. You claim that Europeans were eating strawberries before they were introduced from the New World. Next you will be saying that Romans wore wrist watches with Roman numerals on them!! "Steve" wrote in message ... Cereus-validus wrote: They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. More mystery than you apparently think. If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in Europe knew that native Americans existed? I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set until a little later but the name was there. I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw, the name slowly evolved into strawberry. I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-) Steve |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... In article , meat n potatoes writes i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the outside? but why? It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the seeds all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape, cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc. A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and juicy. why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird. No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch. The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the outside ;-) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Cereus-validus wrote: They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. More mystery than you apparently think. If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in Europe knew that native Americans existed? I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set until a little later but the name was there. I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw, the name slowly evolved into strawberry. I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-) Steve |
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
You no fool me Steverino,
You're making that up. You claim that Europeans were eating strawberries before they were introduced from the New World. Next you will be saying that Romans wore wrist watches with Roman numerals on them!! "Steve" wrote in message ... Cereus-validus wrote: They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. More mystery than you apparently think. If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in Europe knew that native Americans existed? I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set until a little later but the name was there. I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw, the name slowly evolved into strawberry. I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-) Steve |
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