by "tigercat" <a1$markd3a1$@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 22, 2008 at 03:01 PM
"Tom" <t.wyckoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:oweZj.3757$H91.2860@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Polly the Parrot wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:14:08 -0700 "Juan M"
>> <jdmollanSPAMMENOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> and banana trees aren't tall!
>>> (I've been to Costa Rica.)
>>
>> And they aren't trees either.
>>
>> Or are they?
> Nope, they ain't trees and bananas ain't fruit either. Bananas are
> classified as an herb, and the "trees" grow from rhizomes (think
Irises).
>
> And by now the original poster is screaming "Help, I'm being yenta'd to
> death!"
LOL - I don't mind, except that I guessed King Kong!
