tigercat wrote:
> "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!
>
>
Luckily, since I usually don't read such stuff critically, I noticed
initially that it was a coconut tree. So I suspended disbelief and
didn't bother to scroll down since I recognized this as one of similar
nature that starts with an impossibility.
FK
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