The other night, over dinner, my girlfriend and I got into a debate over the state of fruits and vegetables. She claimed that they were ova, I claimed that they weren't. (I can only imagine what my 14 year-old son, who was at the table with us, thought of all of this.) In an attempt to demonstrate that fruits are more like fertilized beings than they they are like ova, I began to explain how bees cross pollinate flowers. A couple seconds into it, she looks at me from across the table, aghast, and accuses . . .
"Are you flirting with me?!?"
Laughed for three minutes straight, and really hard. My stomach muscles still ache.
Observations, rants, and plausible
deniability from a person who refuses
to be a prisoner of his own world.
deniability from a person who refuses
to be a prisoner of his own world.
The Village
I AM WRITING!
My Screenplay -- Draft Three
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Thursday, January 18, 2007, posted by Q6 at 7:28 AM
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For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation).
The term fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant.
In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.[1]
In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plums, apples and oranges.
However, a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from.[2]