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'Lost crops' could have fed as many as maize
phys.org ^
| 12/23/2019
| by Talia Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis
Posted on 12/23/2019 7:33:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:33:54 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:34:20 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
they could have fed thousands. "Why feel billions when you can feed ... thousands?" -- Dr. Evil
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:35:33 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:35:54 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:36:16 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BenLurkin
I had a dream recently where I was in Egypt during the time they were building the pyramids. I remember all these ropes that people were climbing with bricks under their arms. They were building the pyramids! So much have been like 1300 BC or something.
Anyway, I remember in the dream that I was standing at a long table and it was evidently my task to feed the laborers that were building those pyramids. So there I was constantly putting food out on the table and that food was Fig Newtons.
Yes, Fig Newtons. I was laying those Fig Newtons out on that table, stacking them like dominoes.
Fig Newtons in 1300 BC. Why do I have dreams like that? I haven't had a Fig Newton in about 20 years.
To: SamAdams76
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12/23/2019 7:43:19 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SamAdams76
I’ve always thought that, given eating a Fig Newton or a brick, it would be a coin toss decision... They are right up with styrofoam Circus Peanuts...
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:49:16 PM PST
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: SamAdams76
I haven't had a Fig Newton in about 20 years. 20 years, 2300 years, in dream time, same diff...
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posted on
12/23/2019 7:49:37 PM PST
by
null and void
(The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
To: BenLurkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOlD0JZhM4
Oh, maize what we call corn. Just imagine how many would have been fed if only Monsanto hadn’t corrupted practically all corn and made farmers plow up their crops that were using unlicensed/permitted by Monsanto.
Imagine the carbon footprint increase with all those thousands more people in the world eating her corn and grains.
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posted on
12/23/2019 8:01:45 PM PST
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bgill
To: SamAdams76
To: SamAdams76
What, no Strawberry Newtons?
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posted on
12/23/2019 8:03:53 PM PST
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bgill
To: null and void; SamAdams76
And it’s not my fault either.
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posted on
12/23/2019 8:09:27 PM PST
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Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: BenLurkin
I dunno... a salad of Erect Knotweed doesn’t sound too tasty
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12/23/2019 8:19:12 PM PST
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bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
Thanks BenLurkin. Could have, but didn't, so they switched to corn. Maize is for U of M fans.
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12/23/2019 8:51:01 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
Chenopodium is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. Wikipedia
Family : Amaranthaceae
Scientific name : Chenopodium
Higher classification : Chenopodioideae
Rank : Genus
Tribe : Atripliceae
Order : Caryophyllales
Lower classifications : Pigweed, Quinoa, Chenopodium pallidicaule, Chenopodium giganteum
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12/23/2019 8:55:40 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
Polygonum erectum, commonly called erect knotweed, is a North American species of herbaceous plant in the buckwheat family. It is found primarily in the northeastern and north-central parts of the United States, but with scattered populations in... Wikipedia
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12/23/2019 8:56:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
But what do they taste like?
More importantly can you make Beer or Wine out of them!
To: a fool in paradise; FreedomPoster
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posted on
12/23/2019 9:11:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SamAdams76
If you were old enough to have seen this, it never left your sub-conscious.
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posted on
12/23/2019 9:31:39 PM PST
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PGR88
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