doesnt plants require: air, water and nutrients such as minerals?
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From: "KitFox Fyn'k'chra" <kitfox_at_firstlight.net>
To: <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Better than males, not always
> At 12:14 PM 8/29/2002 +0000, motobritt wrote:
> >I suppose we just have to watch out for the unscrupulous Japanese
> >scientist planning to create a living cucumber. Although the
> >existance of living vegetables has been confirmed by anyone visiting
> >McDonalds, or even worse, Little Chef.
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> Living cucumber? I suppose you mean AMBULATORY cucumber... After all,
> cucumbers already are alive. They're plants, after all. In fact, while
> the meat you find at the grocery store has been dead for a long time,
> almost everything you find in the produce section is still alive, and will
> remain that way for another week oftentimes. Not to mention the SEEDS,
> which actually have full embryos in them. :)
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> Actually, there WAS a documented case of a woman using a cucumber who broke
> it accidently. She pulled out the huge chunk, and left one seed, which
> decided she was a good place to try to grow in. Didn't cause any major
> problems, just caused a heck of a surprise, and an unhappy baby cucumber plant.
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> I guess I should add to the list also... I have NO idea what number we were
> at. :\
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> - You can't show off pictures of yourself and your cucumber from those
> little photo booths to show how cute you two are together.
> - Yeah, you could take a cucumber to the movie and actually see the show,
> but you can't talk about the movie with the cucumber afterwards.
> - It's really not good form to call out your cucumber's name in the heat of
> passion.
> - Men: Hard on the inside, and a nice soft outer surface. 'Toy' makers
> have worked hard to reproduce this effect. Cucumbers: Squishy and juicy on
> the inside, hard on the outside...
> - ...And cucumbers can BREAK.
> - Cucumbers will never fetch you an extra roll of toilet paper from the
> closet while you're stuck.
> - A romantic movie scene with a cucumber?... *ewwwww* "Oh, darling, I love
> you so much!" *silence* "I can't profess how undying my love for you is!"
> *silence* "Let's elope!" *silence* "But before we do, let's make mad hot
> passionate love!" *At this point, the whole audience is gone.*
> - Cucumbers... Started out as a very long-vined plant...
> - That grew a flower (Which of course has both sexes)...
> - That was pollinated by a bug...
> - And eventually grew into the plant's green reproduction sac,
> full of baby cucumber embryos...
> - ... So do you REALLY think you could explain that your
> 'boyfriend' is really the egg sac of a hermaphrodite, tentacled,
> non-sentient life form that couldn't get laid by anything but a bug?
> Wait... Don't answer that. :P
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Received on Thu Aug 29 2002 - 15:34:53 CDT