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Old 05-11-2012, 12:32 PM
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What's all this then? (fruit contains fruit)

I have just discovered a coconut which contains a lime. What am I supposed to do with this? Why would someone do this?
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Old 05-11-2012, 12:38 PM
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Drink it all up.
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Old 05-11-2012, 12:40 PM
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Why would someone do this?
Perhaps, to relieve a belly ache?

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Old 05-11-2012, 12:46 PM
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Call your doctor. To be specific, your DOC-TAH!
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:14 PM
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Call your doctor. To be specific, your DOC-TAH!
Try not to wake him up.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:17 PM
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Don't forget to call in the morning.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:25 PM
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Now we've cleared up this mystery, maybe someone can figure out what you do with a drunken sailor.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:27 PM
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Now we've cleared up this mystery, maybe someone can figure out what you do with a drunken sailor.
Nah, let's work on that in the morning. Early.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:32 PM
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Now we've cleared up this mystery, maybe someone can figure out what you do with a drunken sailor.
I'm all for shaving his junk with a rusty razor.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:33 PM
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Do we even have a long boat? Does it need bailing?
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:33 PM
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I'm all for shaving his junk with a rusty razor.
Ah, that's perfect - now I have that line in my head, set to music. I can always count on you, Inigo.
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:39 PM
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Now we've cleared up this mystery, maybe someone can figure out what you do with a drunken sailor.
Good question!
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:48 PM
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Was it one of those migrating coconuts?

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Old 05-11-2012, 03:14 PM
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Was it one of those migrating coconuts?
What, the ones found in the British Isles during the time of King Arthur?
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Old 05-11-2012, 03:16 PM
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What, the ones found in the British Isles during the time of King Arthur?
No, it's far too perilous.
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Old 05-11-2012, 03:20 PM
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My concern is actually with a bunch of bananas I just found. I can't quite tell if it's a six-foot, seven-foot, or eight-foot bunch, but I'm pretty sure it contains a highly deadly black tarantula.
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Old 05-11-2012, 03:20 PM
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What, the ones found in the British Isles during the time of King Arthur?
And we've come 360 back to limeys.
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Old 05-11-2012, 03:50 PM
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My concern is actually with a bunch of bananas I just found. I can't quite tell if it's a six-foot, seven-foot, or eight-foot bunch, but I'm pretty sure it contains a highly deadly black tarantula.
Yikes! You'd better steer clear of them, then. Why don't you take one of my coconuts instead? I have a quite a few of them, in a variety of sizes. They're all lined up here; aren't they lovely?
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Old 05-11-2012, 03:55 PM
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Doesn't anyone have any peaches? I've always wanted to really shake a tree.
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Old 05-11-2012, 04:26 PM
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Doesn't anyone have any peaches? I've always wanted to really shake a tree.
I'm pretty sure there's a spot you can find millions of peaches. Peaches for free.
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Old 05-11-2012, 05:46 PM
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Now we've cleared up this mystery, maybe someone can figure out what you do with a drunken sailor.
Maybe you'd be drunk too if you saw Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning, oh what a terrible sight to see
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Old 05-11-2012, 06:03 PM
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The title of this thread (fruit contains fruit) reminds me of the silly notices (as allergy warnings) found on some food containers, such as on a can of tuna: "contains fish", or peanuts "contains peanuts/nuts".
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Old 05-11-2012, 06:08 PM
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Ahhh, the mystical limonut! I thought they went extinct simultaneously with the brontosaurus and Pluto.
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Old 05-11-2012, 06:31 PM
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My concern is actually with a bunch of bananas I just found. I can't quite tell if it's a six-foot, seven-foot, or eight-foot bunch, but I'm pretty sure it contains a highly deadly black tarantula.
Yeah, I don't have any bananas, not today at least.
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Old 05-11-2012, 07:01 PM
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Doesn't anyone have any peaches? I've always wanted to really shake a tree.
I've heard there's an island way out in the seas where babies grow on trees.
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Old 05-11-2012, 07:07 PM
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Now lemme get this straight...You put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em both up? Where do baby trees fit in?
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Old 05-11-2012, 09:45 PM
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My concern is actually with a bunch of bananas I just found. I can't quite tell if it's a six-foot, seven-foot, or eight-foot bunch, but I'm pretty sure it contains a highly deadly black tarantula.
Deo volente, you'll never need to find out.
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Old 05-12-2012, 12:18 AM
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Now lemme get this straight...You put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em both up? Where do baby trees fit in?
They should fit nicely over in the corner. Let me see if I can get my aunt to move them there.
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Old 05-12-2012, 01:25 AM
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Why would someone do this?
Because one is the loneliest number.

But it turns out two can be as bad as one.
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Old 05-12-2012, 02:13 AM
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Because one is the loneliest number.

But it turns out two can be as bad as one.
Well, it does take two, baby.
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Old 05-12-2012, 07:34 AM
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Well, it does take two, baby.
Ok, a little off the rails here.
1) Gay is the wrong kind of fruit for this thread
2) Marvin Gaye wasn't actually gay, hence not a fruit.

If you need a moment to reflect you should ride this big black horse to that cherry tree over there in the middle of nowhere.
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Old 05-12-2012, 08:57 AM
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My concern is actually with a bunch of bananas I just found. I can't quite tell if it's a six-foot, seven-foot, or eight-foot bunch...
Have you tried tallying them? Or maybe get a professional to do it for you?
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Old 05-12-2012, 11:44 AM
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If you need a moment to reflect you should ride this big black horse to that cherry tree over there in the middle of nowhere.
I've been riding my horse out here in the desert. But at least it's not raining. And there's nobody around to bother us and we don't use names.

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Old 05-12-2012, 01:25 PM
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I've been riding my horse out here in the desert. But at least it's not raining. And there's nobody around to bother us and we don't use names.
But is there anyone to give you pain?
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Old 05-12-2012, 01:56 PM
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But is there anyone to give you pain?
I got no response upon announcing myself. "I am," I said -- to no one there -- and no one heard at all.

Not even the chair.
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Old 05-12-2012, 03:10 PM
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I got no response upon announcing myself. "I am," I said -- to no one there -- and no one heard at all.

Not even the chair.
Perhaps you should buy a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies, and set off on an interurban bus, since it appears that you are lost between two shores. (Just be careful not to end up on any Brooklyn roads, especially bon a September morn!)
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Old 05-12-2012, 03:40 PM
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On a September Morn, cherries sure got the way to groove me.

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Old 05-12-2012, 05:25 PM
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Ok, a little off the rails here.
1) Gay is the wrong kind of fruit for this thread
2) Marvin Gaye wasn't actually gay, hence not a fruit.

If you need a moment to reflect you should ride this big black horse to that cherry tree over there in the middle of nowhere.
Well, yeah, but then I'd have to bake a pie for that darned Billy.
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Old 05-12-2012, 07:17 PM
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Have you tried tallying them? Or maybe get a professional to do it for you?
I'm a professional.

But I only count potatoes.

One potato, two potato, three potato.......four! Five potato, six potato, seven potato.........More!

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Old 05-12-2012, 07:39 PM
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Well, yeah, but then I'd have to bake a pie for that darned Billy.
So are you too young to leave your mother?
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Old 05-12-2012, 11:17 PM
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So are you too young to leave your mother?
No, and I can make a grown man cry.
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Old 05-13-2012, 01:04 AM
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Well, yeah, but then I'd have to bake a pie for that darned Billy.
And then instead of sitting down and eating that nice pie you made for him, Billy had to go volunteering to be a hero.
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Old 05-13-2012, 02:14 PM
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I got no response upon announcing myself. "I am," I said -- to no one there -- and no one heard at all.

Not even the chair.
Chairs can be that way.
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