Posted by dorayme on 10/08/07 04:59

In article <gaidnXTazZ3rCpTanZ2dnUVZ_s-pnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:

> 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! :-)

I learnt tomato pickling, natural tomato soup, tomato chutney, I
even considered political activism where I could throw the ripe
ones in stormy meetings...

(Someone in Sydney here once threw one and landed it on the
Governer General. I realise this last little tid-bit is pretty
OT...)

--
dorayme

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