I suspect this whole "nonpartisan veraciousness" is gonna get me in
just as much trouble as political correctness. I ain't capable of
keeping out of trouble. I pointed out that it wasn't my ancestors who
raped and pillaged the frontier bounty...they were too busy exploiting
and being exploited in the tenements of NYC...didn't have enough money
to influence goings on out in the wilderness...wrong move I suppose.
I'll try to keep quiet about them immigrants who joined Custer at the
big to do and how much choice they had in matters.
Geez...I really am getting out of line lately. Got to put the leash
back on.
-jc
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 07:40 AM, Pam Stevenson wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: When I'm in NH I'm a tourist. Ruth
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John
> Callan
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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