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Revelation! 666 Is Not the Number of the Beast; It's actually 616
Topic Started: May 10 2005, 03:01 PM (479 Views)
Hoss
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gvok
May 11 2005, 11:37 AM
When I was young people said Canadian Geese. Now they say Canada Geese for some reason. I hate that too.

I've always called them Texas Geese.

Maybe the geese all got together and decided that Canada Geese was more poitically correct than Canadian Geese.
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Well it ain't flying with me.


---This post is dedicated to Fesarius a.k.a. "Coolman". ;)
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Gvok,

Thanks. I too will never quite accept that a tomato is a fruit.

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Is it ok to put them in fruit salad now? There is a blurry line between fruit and vegetables.

Perhaps this is just one of the signs of the apocalypse.
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May 11 2005, 01:42 PM
I've always called them Texas Geese.

Maybe the geese all got together and decided that Canada Geese was more poitically correct than Canadian Geese.

Texas does seem to be thier winter home.

It was a bit strange seeing those geese in the wintertime when I lived in Texas.

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38957
May 11 2005, 12:57 PM
Is it ok to put them in fruit salad now?  There is a blurry line between fruit and vegetables.

Perhaps this is just one of the signs of the apocalypse.

Exactly. When people start putting tomatoes in fruit salad then I'll start calling them fruit.

Actually, there is a judicial opinion out there that legally (as opposed to scientifically) declared tomatoes vegtables. I'll try and find it.

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The case in question went up to the United States Supreme Court: Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), in an opinion authored by Justice Gray. The plaintiff had sued to recover tariffs paid under the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883 on tomatoes he imported from the West Indies. The Tariff Act called for payment on vegetables, but not fruits, hence the importance of the distinction. Although I agree that the "folkloric cachet" does derive from the impression that the decision had more to do with legal semantics than with botany, the decision did not define tomatoes as "vegetables-in-law" but rather attempted to assess whether the legislature at the time the Tariff Act was passed would have intended tomatoes to be classed as vegetables within the meaning of the Act. The Court chose to base its interpretation of the somewhat vague statute on the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable" as opposed to the botanical or trade meanings. In this sense, the opinion actually favors common reasoning over technical reasoning.
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Minuet
May 11 2005, 12:13 PM
38957
May 11 2005, 01:42 PM
I've always called them Texas Geese.

Maybe the geese all got together and decided that Canada Geese was more poitically correct than Canadian Geese.

Texas does seem to be thier winter home.

It was a bit strange seeing those geese in the wintertime when I lived in Texas.

Every once in a while in the winter, I go take a gander at them.
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:rotfl: :rotfl:

Superb. It was so great, that I just had to gaggle! :)
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Now the real question remains, is Ketchup a Fruit or a Vegitable?

Or, does Ketchup bear the number 616?
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iancook
May 11 2005, 04:12 PM
Now the real question remains, is Ketchup a Fruit or a Vegitable?

Or, does Ketchup bear the number 616?

Ketchup is a fruit product and Catsup is a vegetable product.
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Or, does Ketchup bear the number 616?

Ian,

No, the number for Ketchup is 57. :rotfl: ;)
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