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A strawberry isn't a fruit!!!#262632

By The Viking Invasion - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:00 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:00 pm #262632

The definition of a fruit is:

"The developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple."

This means that by necessity it contains its seeds inside itself. The actual "fruit" of a strawberry is what is known as a "swolen receptacle" and is actually the part of the plant underneath the ovary. It swells with a food supply for the pips (which are ACTUALLY the fruit) when the pips themselves reach maturity and are ready to be distrubuted. Its secondary function is to attract animals to eat it, dispersing it even further afield than would normally be possible.

Sorry, Rachel, but NO fruit has its seeds on the outside.

#262637

By Loudmouthed_Cutie - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:08 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:08 pm #262637

whats a strawberry then

#262638

By Console - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:09 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:09 pm #262638

Technically correct, but as it's "Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quix" and not QI, I think we can let it slide. Besides, you have to have the answer Rob DJ set on the answer sheet.

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By The Viking Invasion - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:11 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:11 pm #262639

Fair enough, just thought I'd let people know. I must have spent the entire half hour from 9,30 to 10 trying to get through and let the team know. Alas, it was all the "Play Your Cards" callers that were getting through, and not little me.

Oh well...can't win every one...

#262677

By blugun - Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:33 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:33 pm #262677

Sorry, Rachel, but NO fruit has its seeds on the outside.

What about a quartered apple :lol:

Never trust a scarecrow wearin shades after dark, be careful of that old bow tie he wears, it takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blugun

#262678

By SAV1OUR - Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:37 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:37 pm #262678

Console wrote:Technically correct, but as it's "Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quix" and not QI, I think we can let it slide. Besides, you have to have the answer Rob DJ set on the answer sheet.

Yep, if an orange is square then it is, and thats that, you dont wanna MESS..DJ, coz its makin yer feel so thick, and so Tracy got cut off this morn, oh that was it she was dull wasnt she.

neilt0 wrote:
Click, look, be happy.

#262679

By blugun - Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:41 pm

- Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:41 pm #262679

SaviourOfReviews wrote:
Console wrote:Technically correct, but as it's "Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quix" and not QI, I think we can let it slide. Besides, you have to have the answer Rob DJ set on the answer sheet.

Yep, if an orange is square then it is, and thats that, you dont wanna MESS..DJ, coz its makin yer feel so thick, and so Tracy got cut off this morn, oh that was it she was dull wasnt she.

Exactly.............................eh?

Never trust a scarecrow wearin shades after dark, be careful of that old bow tie he wears, it takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blugun

#262740

By Boboff - Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:30 am

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:30 am #262740

Yes a Strawberry is an Ovary not a fruit, Tsh I thought everyone knew that, becuase you get to pick you own Ovary farms all over.

#262748

By Yudster - Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:44 am

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:44 am #262748

I. Will. Never. Eat. A. Strawberry. Again.

Charlalottie on Twitter wrote:Just remembered that I played pool with a satanist last night. Really should go out on a Friday more often.

Charlalottie wrote:Had a good night last night. We lost the pub quiz but had my hair plaited by a viking.

#262754

By Boboff - Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:11 am

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:11 am #262754

I am going to eat Ovary's now, or something close to it anyway !

#262760

By Yudster - Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:19 am

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:19 am #262760

Boboff I thought you were my friend..........I have to barf.

Charlalottie on Twitter wrote:Just remembered that I played pool with a satanist last night. Really should go out on a Friday more often.

Charlalottie wrote:Had a good night last night. We lost the pub quiz but had my hair plaited by a viking.

#262762

By DemonHorse - Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:21 am

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:21 am #262762

boboff wrote:I am going to eat Ovary's now, or something close to it anyway !

but enough about your trips to the hospital.

Anyone who thinks we're contributing to the dumbing-down of internet forums can shove their stupid opinion up their a$$

#262773

By Boboff - Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:02 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:02 pm #262773

Yudster wrote:Boboff I thought you were my friend..........I have to barf.

What about the shower thing ?

Merry Christmas, and yes we are cyber aquantences it is true.

#262775

By Yudster - Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:04 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:04 pm #262775

Eating ovaries. You wouldn't say that if you had 'em.

Charlalottie on Twitter wrote:Just remembered that I played pool with a satanist last night. Really should go out on a Friday more often.

Charlalottie wrote:Had a good night last night. We lost the pub quiz but had my hair plaited by a viking.

#262778

By Boboff - Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:11 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:11 pm #262778

Something close to them, it was a rubbish attempt at inuendo about rug munching, sorry.
I never knew that about strawberries though, isn't there something that also says a tomato is a fruit for the same reason, and based on that definition it would make it a fruit.

#262781

By Yudster - Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:15 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:15 pm #262781

I knew I disliked fruit for a reason. I always said it was bad for you. Now I know I'm right. I'll just keep taking the vitamins and avoiding the fruit. Fruit is evil.

Charlalottie on Twitter wrote:Just remembered that I played pool with a satanist last night. Really should go out on a Friday more often.

Charlalottie wrote:Had a good night last night. We lost the pub quiz but had my hair plaited by a viking.

#262886

By The Viking Invasion - Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:35 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:35 pm #262886

When you eat fruit, you're eating plant babies.

#262906

By Yudster - Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:55 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:55 pm #262906

I know! Eeeuuuwww!!!!!!!!!

Charlalottie on Twitter wrote:Just remembered that I played pool with a satanist last night. Really should go out on a Friday more often.

Charlalottie wrote:Had a good night last night. We lost the pub quiz but had my hair plaited by a viking.

#262911

By Thehud - Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:17 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:17 pm #262911

straw·ber·ry (strô'bĕr'ē) pronunciation
n.

1. Any of various low-growing plants of the genus Fragaria, having white flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets.
2. The aggregate fruit of this plant.

adj.

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

Sounds like a fruit to me

#262959

By The Viking Invasion - Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:05 pm

- Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:05 pm #262959

Well it isn't...

"a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets."

Hanged with your own noose...

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By lordmoose - Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:00 pm

- Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:00 pm #263097

The Viking Invasion wrote:Fair enough, just thought I'd let people know. I must have spent the entire half hour from 9,30 to 10 trying to get through and let the team know. Alas, it was all the "Play Your Cards" callers that were getting through, and not little me.

Oh well...can't win every one...

wow. you need to get out more.

#263128

By The Viking Invasion - Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:33 pm

- Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:33 pm #263128

lol, i dont go to work until 11, so I wasn't in any sort of hurry.

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