Hi! I am a genius!

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_titan

you scare me sometimes.

Not as much as her threat to send her brother-in-law after me with a tow truck.....

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Take that up with Adrian. Oh, and we'll miss you.

Oh, I wasn't disputing, only ... exploring the limits of my ignorance.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Not as much as her threat to send her brother-in-law after me with a tow truck.....

That's 'cuz the winch is too heavy to carry.


Arum Titan = Big Stinky Flower! Actually, I'd probably appreciate it - it might look nice in the yard over by the neighbor's bedroom.

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

[COLOR="Magenta"][SIZE="3"]Arum Titan = Big Stinky Flower! Actually, I'd probably appreciate it - it might look nice in the yard over by the neighbor's bedroom.

They don't flower very often, DixieGal. I have some friends in Cambridge, who rang when their specimen in the Botanic Garden hothouses flowered in 2004. But we couldn't get there because of other commitments. They kept the gardens open till midnight, and dons could be seen queuing with their infant daughters, telling them to pay attention because they would not see the like again.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Patricia

They don't flower very often, DixieGal. I have some friends in Cambridge, who rang when their specimen in the Botanic Garden hothouses flowered in 2004. But we couldn't get there because of other commitments. They kept the gardens open till midnight, and dons could be seen queuing with their infant daughters, telling them to pay attention because they would not see the like again.

Is that the same as the Corpse Flower?? I saw one of those at the Huntington Library in San Marino years ago. It was really something.

[kaas]

Really guys,
you should mark those kind of links as NSFW - especially with so large a ... petal!

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by kaas

Really guys,
you should mark those kind of links as NSFW - especially with so large a ... petal!

It's strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.

[kaas]

yes,

but imagine the amount of batteries needed (or does it uses duracells?)!
kaas

[pilotbob]

I swear I took the lounge out of my New Posts scan. Hmm...

BOb

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Gimme a big showy funeral, lots of flowers that all smell cloyish
...

Oh, DixieGal, Adrian would not dream of any violence around you, even inadvertent, except possibly to others in your defence (though he is modern-gentleman enough to realise that a lass of your calibre is likely up to providing her own defence, and would therefore naturally cede to "ladies first" if there was some defensive womping required). While with most dance-partners there's the possibility of inadvertent limb-removal during his enthusiasm for GETTIN' DOWN, I would humbly offer that he is somewhat taken by you, knowing that no-one can out-dance a Gal of Dixie. I swear, the hirsute lad seems totally infatuated!

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I swear I took the lounge out of my New Posts scan. Hmm...

BOb

We arranged to have it put back in, because we miss ya, ya cute little, air-pingu, you.

Cheers,
Marc

[Tattncat]

Originally Posted by Patricia

They don't flower very often, DixieGal. I have some friends in Cambridge, who rang when their specimen in the Botanic Garden hothouses flowered in 2004. But we couldn't get there because of other commitments. They kept the gardens open till midnight, and dons could be seen queuing with their infant daughters, telling them to pay attention because they would not see the like again.

Isn't that the flower that smells like rotten hamburger?

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Tattncat

Isn't that the flower that smells like rotten hamburger?

That's the one .... I finally went and looked it up. I've seen one of those up close ... and jeeps, they stink!

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Gimme a big showy funeral, lots of flowers that all smell cloyish, enough sappy music to leave every eye in the parlor moist, and many eulogizers who break down into fits of weeping midway through the eulogy. Then snap off my head and blast it into geosynchronous orbit so that I can always be "watching over you."

The flowers themselves might leave the eyes moist. (Last funereal I was at also featured incense, as the wife of the departed was Thai Buddhist, and that moistened quite a few eyes as well.)

My dad has always said he wants a proper Viking funereal, with a flaming barge. I've been considering whether a scale model carrying his ashes would be an acceptable substitute. Opinions?