To: PatrickHenry
I thought he early corn type plants were from something that started with a 'Z'. Can't remember now...
20 posted on
06/15/2005 10:04:27 AM PDT by
djf
("Stop quoting the law. We have swords!" - Roman general Sulla)
To: djf
I think I heard this theory in a campus bar in Iowa City in 1970. It had something to do with lemons and limes coming to earth to colonize the planet. The venture failed because the limes didn't speak the same language as the lemons...
To: djf
The genus of corn is Zea. Is that what you are thinking about?
58 posted on
06/15/2005 11:31:33 AM PDT by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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