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Topic starter
01/04/2025 9:01 am
A topical news item that may be of interest. Especially today of all days.
BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism - YouTube
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
01/04/2025 9:10 am
What, is someone implying that spaghetti does not grow on trees?
01/04/2025 9:22 am
Does not appear Kosher to me.A topical news item that may be of interest. Especially today of all days.
BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism - YouTube
John Bono
North Jersey
Topic starter
01/04/2025 9:57 am
Oh goodness me no. The joke was that they don't actually grow it in Switzerland. (In reality the Swiss spend most of their time breeding cuckoos, which they then put into clocks).What, is someone implying that spaghetti does not grow on trees?
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
01/04/2025 10:08 am
@graeme-ogg IMHO the Swiss are the cuckoos....wasting their time punching holes into perfectly good blocks of cheese.
01/04/2025 10:10 am
Personally I prefer the more easily digestable vermicelli, from the smaller trees.
01/04/2025 10:13 am
That's funny. Happy April Fools Day everyone!
01/04/2025 10:38 am
Obviously fake news. Everyone knows spaghetti is a root vegetable.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
Topic starter
01/04/2025 11:11 am
Quite so. And digging it up is a real chore if you have a bad back. Personally I stick to beetroot, which grows conveniently on small trees which rarely exceed 7 or 8 feet in height and the ripe fruit (or veg, if you are a real stickler for botanical accuracy) can be easily plucked from the lower branches.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
01/04/2025 11:21 am
Another of my life long beliefs shattered. What's next, that tomatoes are fruit?
Topic starter
01/04/2025 11:39 am
Indeed they are. And toadstools are a mutant variety of aquatic insect. Given the right atmospheric conditions, snails are capable of sustained flight and aerial acrobatics. Hens DO have teeth, but they encircle the anal vent in order to squeeze the last drops of valuable nutrition from hard-to-digest seeds and grain. And horseshoe bats are a surviving species of dinosaur afflicted by hereditary dwarfism.There are just so many fascinating facts regarding the natural world about which the average man in the street is depressingly ignorant, I don't know where to begin.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
John Kuvakas and Tony Perrone reacted
01/04/2025 2:32 pm
@graeme-ogg, please allow me to assist in suggestions as to where you might begin...
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
Tony Perrone reacted
Topic starter
01/04/2025 4:29 pm
I am of course immensely grateful for the generous offer of assistance but really . . . you are a very busy man, with endless calls on your time and expertise, and there is really no need for you to go to any trouble on my behalf. So please don't even think of it. I beg you. I IMPLORE you. And as for sending some of your tame globetrotting "social rehabilitation" assistants to try and help, I wouldn't hear of it. No, no, I will soldier on, just leave me to grapple with my own profound ignorance.
Thanks awfully, old chap. Don't take it wrong way.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
01/04/2025 5:29 pm
You are not alone, my friend. You are never alone...hmmm...at times, that can be comforting...
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
Tony Perrone reacted
01/04/2025 8:34 pm
@graeme-ogg Much easier to just pick the lower hanging root.
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