NationStates Jolt Archive

...off your WHAT?!? :eek:
Uhm, where else would you keep it when you're in bed, other than your ... doona ... ?
Gotta admit. having it there would really train you not to pound your keyboard... don't wanna hurt your Doona. :D

Gotta admit. having it there would really train you not to pound your keyboard... don't wanna hurt your Doona. :D
The weird thing is, i was *JUST* thinking about an incidental about "not drumming fingers against my laptop* BEFORE this post. :eek:
If i'm gonna be prognosticative, you'd think i could at least turn coin a little :( .

Technically a fruit, but officially a vegetable. It also tastes like a vegetable.

Another conversation? :eek:

It's a fruit.

Gotta admit. having it there would really train you not to pound your keyboard... don't wanna hurt your Doona. :D

Wow. Sexual innuendo about something that's basically a blanket. Now I have seen everything. Except for a man eating his own head.

Wow. Sexual innuendo about something that's basically a blanket. Now I have seen everything. Perhaps you should keep a dachshund for a little while. Throw pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, workout equipment ... leafy foliage. I've seen ALL that jazz. ;)
Except for a man eating his own head.Well, there's still time. At least Hannbial had that guy eating some of his own brain. ;)

We need new blood in the tomato forum. We can thank China for giving it to us.

From the Bad Science Web Page 2004:

"However the winner was Space Tomato Number One, part of the Chinese government’s “space breeding” project, where radiation in space is used to create comic book mutations and giant space plants, including tomatoes weighing almost a kilogram. It was never made entirely clear why the mutations would be beneficial, or why you needed to be in space to get irradiated. The Chinese news agency Xinhua stated that, “in China the radiation effect is always positive, leading to bigger and better vegetables that will revolutionise agriculture.”

http://www.badscience.net/?p=18

Note use of the word vegetable.

All fruits are formed from flowers, and tomato are formed from flowers.

All fruits are formed from flowers, and tomato are formed from flowers.
Some tomatos are formed from massive amounts of radiation, as well.

“in China the radiation effect is always positive, leading to bigger and better vegetables that will revolutionise agriculture.”
Too bad Chernobyl blew up instead of a Chinese nuclear power plant. Imagine the massive water chestnuts and bamboo shoots that would have resulted! It could have ended world hunger. Well, for an hour or so, then everybody would be hungry again.

Too bad Chernobyl blew up instead of a Chinese nuclear power plant. Imagine the massive water chestnuts and bamboo shoots that would have resulted! It could have ended world hunger. Well, for an hour or so, then everybody would be hungry again.
I wonder what would happen if I radiated my General Tso Chicken?

I wonder what would happen if I radiated my General Tso Chicken?
Nothing good could come of that.

http://i4.tinypic.com/104n6u9.jpg

Nothing good could come of that.

http://i4.tinypic.com/104n6u9.jpg
*cries*

haha...the bullseye example came from my snr. physics teacher in high school. He was quite the druggie.Meh, my science teachers weren't much different. My chemistry teacher used to make phallic objects by pouring acid into a beaker full of sugar, and used to capture the oxygen that was released by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and then get high off the pure oxygen. Whereas, my physics teacher just enjoyed get the vandergraph out and electrocuting people.
yep, that about covers it

yeah, there is a decent chance of that........dammit, I swear I just had a good ex. damn my short term memory lapses.

OH! just thought of it. I don't feel like typing it up here, but look at Grice's theory of maxims of speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grice's_maxims). Under that, you should state the most informative of the two (although, that doesn't fully work, as "vegetable" and "fruit" aren't calculable, and therefore, a true implicator can't be drawn.)I think you make have shot yourself in the foot with that link. I can't the maxim you're talking about. Infact, I see a polar opposite one. One that states that you should not be more informative than you need to be. Most people don't really need to know that the a tomato, in botany, is a fruit. All they really need to know is if it is edible or not, which vegetable adequetly describes.

Maxim of Quantity: Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange.
Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.I don't think those people actually read the thread. nor do I think they have any idea about how bored people on NS can become to even begin a debate about tomatos in the first place...True. Even on page 18 people are still giving their first post the to thread about how fruits come from flowers as if it hadn't been discussed before.
haha...ditto this being one of the top debates. You did quite well, and actually made me think (sorry I missed this post for so long) cheers mate.Not a problem. I was supposed to be doing revision. But not anymore exams are over, and I'm intrigued as to what my examiner will make of my Sir Humphrey quote as the why the Germans were part of the EC. Ok, so I paraphrased it to why the Germans joined the ECSC, and I know he's a fictional character, but he's normally pretty damn accurate in his cynicism.

I think I'm all done for this post.

Biologically speaking, a tomato is a fruit.
But, would one eat it as such?
Probably not.
So, it's a...Fregtable? or...a Vruit?...:confused:
You decide.

Tomato thread..... dead?