Ya know, Bob, of the Doubting Variety if you posted with Cliff Claven tags (Man! Now I have to check and see if that’s how they spelled it on Cheers…) (Yes, yes it is.) Even if your were sorta whooshed, that would make it an anti-whoosh and oh so cool.
Like this:
[Cliff Claven]Ehhh… Real, honest-to-Og, Italian mozzarella is made from water buffalo milk. Supposedly, there are more water buffaloes in Italy than in any other country outside of Southeast Asia. I’ve never heard the expression “buffalo mozzarella” before, but I’ll bet it means “mozzarella made from water buffalo milk.”[/Cliff Claven]
Just a tip.
And even though you were real helpfull there, I’m NEVER gonna remember the it’s/its rule. But then I don’t have to. My idiosyncratic spelling is part of my charm.
-Rue.
OK, just to settle the fruit/vegetable tomato dilemma-issue…
Fruits are vegetables. Any edible plant (or part of a plant) is a vegetable. The ones that flower and have seeds (like tomatoes) are also fruits. Therefore, the sentence “A tomato is a vegetable” is in fact correct, as is the sentence “A tomato is a fruit”. However, the sentence “No, a tomato is a fruit” (notice the subtle difference?) is not correct (well, it’s half correct. Or something.).
Rue: Some animals have traditions. What about the swallows returning to Capistrano? And hibernation? And the annual migration of the monarch butterfly (or any migration, I guess)? Looks like we’re back to representative government as the difference between humans and animals.
Oh, and all you beefsteak tomato-growers: I’m really jealous. The growing season is so short up here that we can’t grow beefsteaks. We pretty much have to make do with Early Girls (which are good, but don’t hold a candle to beefsteaks, Jerseys, or Creoles). I tried to grow beefsteaks one year; I got one tomato, and the bastard neighbor kid (they don’t live there anymore, thank Og) took it and smashed it on my walk. Little Satan-spawn. May he be condemned to…well, probably what his life is going to be anyway. [sub]I’m so evil…hee hee hee[/sub]
And okra rocks. Pickled is best, but fried is real good, and it’s also good in lamb stew. And Indian-style chicken dishes. Just, for Og’s sake, don’t overcook it!
Other famous animal traditions (thanks for point that out, Lindy):
The running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain (you don’t think we thought this up, do you?)
The annual grizzly bear Canasta festival in Monmouth, New Jersey.
The small furry animals that snicker at me every morning as one selected from the group comes up to the front door and trip me as I leave my house for work.
Note that the last one is also an ever so subtle form of representative government, as they seem to draw straws to see who gets to trip me and who gets to sit back and laugh.
Bad news shibby Shib. They don’t draw straws, the use an old Pop-O-Matic™ bubble. So it’s not government, it’s chance. One step away from anarchy. (And I can’t tell you how I know this. It would be a betrayal of trust. BUt the chipmonk has it rigged.)
-Rue.
Now, if you’re going to make a case about a silly little mistake (about my 79th in this thread alone) I’mgoing to point out it’s BlackBears in New Jersey. (And nobody wants that.) Grizzly Bears are out West-ish.
Now I have to try and remember the joke with the Chip Monk and the French Friar…
-Rue. (rassa-frassin’ snooty Eastsiders…)
I’m going to have call you on this one, Mr. Rue-de-doo! Everyone knows that when the Grizzlies gather on their annual pilgrimage to Monmouth, it’s a tradition. They’ve been doing it for years, always the same week, same bears, same trash all over the place. It really can get quickly out of hand. Not that the New Jersey black bears enjoy this. To the contrary, they often choose that week to flee to the Poconos. In fact, it’s fairly well documented that black bears don’t even play Canasta. Turns out they prefer rummy or even the slots or the roulette tables. Anywya, if the black bears do get together it’s really just a gathering, not so much a tradition. So there.
The black bears have their canasta festival in Monmouth. Grizzlies have their National Mah-Jongg Finals and Chili Cook-Off in Wildwood during the third week of August.
And the polar bears like to spend the warmer months in Cancun.
I know this because a friend of mine books the tour buses for the bears. They don’t like to fly because they can’t pull over to use the woods when they have to go.
BTW, Rue I told Cindy (my friend the tour bus booker) about your putting trail mix in bags marked “Bear Poison.” She thinks it’s a great idea and she’s going to try it. She has problems with bears coming in to book vacations and eating all of the miniature Hershey bars she keeps in a dish on her desk. She says thanks for the tip.
