On 16 Feb 2005 09:30:14 -0800, "aem" > wrote:

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>Don't ever read The Secret Life of Plants or you may wind up with
>nothing left to eat. <smile>

When my younger sister was about 7 or 8, my father planted a gaZILLION
tomato plants in the backyard (and promptly went TDY for 3 months to
Zaragosa, leaving my much PO'd mother in charge of the plants). I was
12 or 13 and striving to be the largest PITA sister I could possibly
be and about that time I read somewhere that tomatoes, when pulled off
the vine, make a detectable sound which the writer fancifully implied
was akin to a scream. Of course, I promptly shared this with her as we
were on tomato picking duty and demonstrated, as I pulled tomatoes off
the vine, how the tomatoes were likely reacting (OW! Screech! Nooooo!,
etc.). Her reaction was vastly entertaining at the time.

As for the gazillion tomato plants, by the time my father got back
from Spain, we had tomatoes running rampant. Peddled them all over the
neighborhood and the base. Mother made *gallons* of tomato juice b/c
it used a *lot* of tomatoes per quart, as well as tomato sauce,chili
sauce, canned tomatoes and, my personal favorite: would pay me to pick
them, put them in grocery bags and sneak them into the neighbor's
garbage cans on trash day. Wish I'd thought of setting up a tomato
stand...

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA


"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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