And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Grow tomatoes the size of Volkswagens! And they glow in the dark!
It'd be interesting to know their criterion. Researchers have successfully germinated 4000 year old wheat berries found in Egyptian pyramids. Of course they probably weren't on a shelf.
I remember that episode of Gilligan's Island (TV sit com for the too young to know about) that had a crate of radiated vegetable seeds wash up on shore.
The thought of there being people out there who don't know what "Gilligan's Island" is hard to imagine. But as I get older my view of the rest of the world does get a little funny...
My gal's a one ton tomato. Just watch my legs bow, She is a one ton tomato.
My "little woman" is quite large, That's why she is the one in charge. She wears the pants all of the time 'Cause she cannot squeeze into mine. She is the woman of my dream But she can make our poor scale scream.
♫ ♫ Gonna tell you a story, that you won't believe But I fell in love last Friday evening With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen Well I was just getting ready to get my hat When she caught my eye, and I put it back And I ordered myself couple of more shots and beers
She were 5 foot 6, two-fifteen A bleach blonde bomber with a streak of mean She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight And the roller derby program said That she was built like a 'fridgerator with a head Her fans called her Tuffy, but all her buddies called her Spike
You know that I fell in love with a roller derby queen Around and round, a round and round The meanest hunk of woman that anybody ever seen Down in the arena ♫ ♫
I happen to live down the road from oak ridge. Interesting little town. Theres lots of "atomic" stuff around the area. Businesses sport a reference, the diners have an "atomic" dish of one flavor, couple old barns have signs painted on the side.. Currently quite a bit of work going on there. The lab itself is still humming (where they make enriched plutonium, do research, and other secret stuff!), there is a private company doing low-level recycling (medical nuclear waste, etc.,) get to see these weird containers chained on the back of flatbed tractor trailers come from all over....and a ton of locals are employed building the new uranium processing facility. Know lots of good people making a decent buck on gov't construction contracts building the thing. If I was a youngin graduating college with 'nuclear' in my degree title, I'd be moving to EastTN.
Not to be a bummer, but Oak Ridge laboratories experimented with radiating seeds in order to extend shelf-life, and it worked.
ReplyDeleteIt'd be interesting to know their criterion. Researchers have successfully germinated 4000 year old wheat berries found in Egyptian pyramids. Of course they probably weren't on a shelf.
Delete"atomic flowers" ...at your supermarket near the Golden Book Encyclopedia display.
ReplyDeleteI remember that episode of Gilligan's Island (TV sit com for the too young to know about) that had a crate of radiated vegetable seeds wash up on shore.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of there being people out there who don't know what "Gilligan's Island" is hard to imagine. But as I get older my view of the rest of the world does get a little funny...
DeleteGMTA. I went searching for a screen cap and found this: https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=169579&stc=1&d=1314781868
DeleteOne Ton Tomato, go eat a One Ton Tomato
ReplyDeleteMy gal's a one ton tomato.
Just watch my legs bow,
She is a one ton tomato.
My "little woman" is quite large,
That's why she is the one in charge.
She wears the pants all of the time
'Cause she cannot squeeze into mine.
She is the woman of my dream
But she can make our poor scale scream.
One Ton Tomato, go eat a One Ton Tomato
bogsidebunny
I assume that’s to the tune of “Guantanamera?”
DeleteThe title is a good one!
ReplyDeleteAttack of the killer Tomatoes!
Delete♫ ♫
ReplyDeleteGonna tell you a story, that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evening
With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen
Well I was just getting ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye, and I put it back
And I ordered myself couple of more shots and beers
She were 5 foot 6, two-fifteen
A bleach blonde bomber with a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Her fans called her Tuffy, but all her buddies called her Spike
You know that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
Around and round, a round and round
The meanest hunk of woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
♫ ♫
I happen to live down the road from oak ridge. Interesting little town. Theres lots of "atomic" stuff around the area. Businesses sport a reference, the diners have an "atomic" dish of one flavor, couple old barns have signs painted on the side..
ReplyDeleteCurrently quite a bit of work going on there. The lab itself is still humming (where they make enriched plutonium, do research, and other secret stuff!), there is a private company doing low-level recycling (medical nuclear waste, etc.,) get to see these weird containers chained on the back of flatbed tractor trailers come from all over....and a ton of locals are employed building the new uranium processing facility. Know lots of good people making a decent buck on gov't construction contracts building the thing. If I was a youngin graduating college with 'nuclear' in my degree title, I'd be moving to EastTN.