Ceptin' young wenches didn't squirt tomatoes into their eyes to make em look
bigger. That was tomato's evil cousin Belladonna (aka - deadly nightshade).
You wouldn't believe the Cub Scouts faces last year at resident camp when I
showed them potato, tomato, pepper, and nightshade plants and told them how
they're all related. Would have brought in eggplant and Chinese Lantern,
too if I'd had any.
Just heard that farmers (maybe just in NYS) will be allowed to grow
echinacea again for crops.
Just to change the subject, because I can...my 12th grader told me this
morning that they're playing dodge ball in school, but they don't call it
that anymore. Now it's called Throw, Catch, and Evade because the state has
outlawed dodge ball in school. So, some kid called it that yesterday and
the kid got in trouble for it. I suggested that since the state probably
outlawed it because they got sued that that kid's parents should sue the
state for first amendment rights. That would really cause all sorts of
trouble. Figured they should add to the politically correct fodder. Of
course, that makes me wonder if "politically correct" is politically
correct. Make it should be renamed to "nonpartisan veraciousness". What do
y'all think? Should we all become proponents of nonpartisan veraciousness?
- Pam
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From: When I'm in NH I'm a tourist. Ruth
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Callan
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:39 AM
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Subject: Re: Wild roses
Them tomayters is poisenous Ruth! Damned Spanish plot to wipe out good
New England stock like you!
(At least thats what I remember reading in some historical novel in my
yout. Prob'ly Ken Roberts.)
-jc
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 12:33 AM, Ruth Barton wrote:
> I think I remember now!!!! Isn't that the one that is used in dried
> flower
> arrangements and some Christmas arrangements? It has a red berry with a
> yellowish "hull" around it. That stuff is a vine and it is also
> becoming
> a weed in this area. It is what the environmentalists call a
> "non-native
> species" Tomatoes are also a non-native species, I suppose next you
> know
> they won't want us to grow tomatoes either. Ruth
>
>
> At 8:40 AM -0400 6/5/03, Pam Stevenson wrote:
>> I seem to recall that it's a different plant - I don't think
>> bittersweet's
>> fruit looks like rosehips, but it's been a while since I've seen any
>> bittersweet, so my rememberer might be broken.
>>
>> - Pam
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