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Killer tomatoes attack human diseases
NewScientist.com ^
| 29 June 2006
| Andy Coghlan
Posted on 06/30/2006 10:51:11 AM PDT by annie laurie
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To: GSlob
I figure beets is the only honest vegetable.
They come from dirt.
They taste like dirt.
Nuff said.
;-)
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posted on
06/30/2006 12:00:25 PM PDT
by
djf
(I'm not Islamophobic. But I am bombophobic. Same thing, I guess...)
To: annie laurie
Oh, boy! According to this, I'll finally be able to stomach the taste of tomatoes.
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posted on
06/30/2006 12:43:43 PM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom!)
To: Hegemony Cricket
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posted on
06/30/2006 12:45:37 PM PDT
by
girlangler
(I'd rather be fishing)
To: Hegemony Cricket
"See - tomatoes are poisonous!"
Actually, that urban legend was started in 1597 by a barber-surgeon named John Gerard. Not true then, not true now.
The question is: Is it a fruit or vegetable? It is commonly accepted by the scientific community to be a fruit. However in 1893 the US Supreme Court declared it to be a vegetable. So who should we believe?
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posted on
06/30/2006 1:14:32 PM PDT
by
FreeInWV
To: Shaun_MD
People who don't grow their own are missing out.
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posted on
06/30/2006 1:55:24 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Fathers Against Rude Television: You may already be a member)
To: patton
Nicotine is a very valuable compound. See Nicotinic Acid aka Vitamin B6.
It's the smoke part, and all the other stuff in ciggies that are bad for you. BTW, smoking tobacco grown in soils that contain uranium, which are actually fairly common, can release really bad raioactive stuff into your lungs.
Maybe the tobacco guys should sell it in pill form.
"OK men, ingest'em if you got'em."
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:16:09 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
( Vote Fraud: The Democrats' Secret Weapon .... Well, secret to the RNC, anyway.)
To: Kenny Bunk
There are enourmous benefits to nicotine - so much so, your brain actually manufactures it. Shhhhhh - don't tell the smoke nazis.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:20:40 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: FreeInWV
But it was believed for many years that tomatos were indeed poisonous.
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posted on
06/30/2006 3:00:36 PM PDT
by
djf
(I'm not Islamophobic. But I am bombophobic. Same thing, I guess...)
To: Hegemony Cricket
They're really hard to keep lit, though...LOL! :D
....then use a blowtorch.
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posted on
06/30/2006 11:20:24 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
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