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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/08/07 02:34
dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <Xns99C22B3D04498nanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.161>,
> Neredbojias <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Over here in the good ol' USA, our vegetable competitions are generally a
>> bit different. Last year's national contest was won by a grammatically-
>> challenged Australian with a logic-recognition problem. (Not mentioning
>> any names.)
>
> Are you meaning to deny outright that I grew 120 lbs of wonderful
> tomatoes in a Melbourne backyard in the 1960s? My sence of gramer
> and ligoc tells me you are so denying this. Now, where is that
> Officer White, i have new harsh instructions for him...
>
I don't doubt that at all.
Back in the late 70's, I tried my hand at planting some tomatoes. I
read up on them, and got six of the scrawniest plants you've ever seen
at the nursery. I planted right by the garage (white siding, west side,
full sun), watered, fertilized and staked them like the experts said,
and waited.
Then I started to get tomatoes. And more tomatoes. And more tomatoes.
I was getting an average of almost a dozen tomatoes off of these six
sick-looking sprouts every day! I couldn't eat them all. I couldn't
give them away to my families. My neighbors wouldn't talk to me... My
coworkers would run when they saw me carrying a brown bag... My clients
didn't (I was in hardware maintenance for IBM at the time) didn't want
to see me...
Yes, I can easily believe you got 120 lbs of tomatoes in your back yard! :-)
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