Just bumpin' because *I can* <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> .

I like Stretch, who is he/she?

For our friend Stretch:

Vegetables:
Term originally used for any plant, now the name for many food plants, most of them annuals, and for their edible parts. There is no clear botanical distinction between vegetables and fruits. Most vegetables consist largely of water, making them low in calories. They are excellent sources of fiber, vitamins A and C, potassium, calcium, and iron. Legumes (e.g., dried beans, peas, and lentils) are a good source of complex carbohydrates, have a high protein content, and can be used to some extent as meat substitutes. In the United States the demand for fresh vegetables during all seasons has been met by improved methods of handling and shipping and the development of large commercial truck farms and market gardens, especially in California, Florida, and Texas, plus importation from other countries such as Chile. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture guidelines for a healthy diet recommend 3 to 5 servings of vegetables daily.

Fruits:
Fruits are classified according to the arrangement from which they derive. There are four typessimple, aggregate, multiple, and accessory fruits. Simple fruits develop from a single ovary of a single flower and may be fleshy or dry. Principal fleshy fruit types are the berry, in which the entire pericarp is soft and pulpy (e.g., the grape, tomato, banana, pepo, hesperidium, and blueberry) and the drupe, in which the outer layers may be pulpy, fibrous, or leathery and the endocarp hardens into a pit or stone enclosing one or more seeds (e.g., the peach, cherry, olive, coconut, and walnut). The name fruit is often applied loosely to all edible plant products and specifically to the fleshy fruits, some of which (e.g., eggplant, tomatoes, and squash) are commonly called vegetables. Dry fruits are divided into those whose hard or papery shells split open to release the mature seed (dehiscent fruits) and those that do not split (indehiscent fruits). Among the dehiscent fruits are the legume (e.g., the pod of the pea and bean), which splits at both edges, and the follicle, which splits on only one side (e.g., milkweed and larkspur); others include the dry fruits of the poppy, snapdragon, lily, and mustard. Indehiscent fruits include the single-seeded achene of the buttercup and the composite flowers; the caryopsis ( grain ); the nut (e.g., acorn and hazelnut); and the fruits of the carrot and parsnip (not to be confused with their edible fleshy roots).

An aggregate fruit (e.g., blackberry and raspberry) consists of a mass of small drupes (drupelets), each of which developed from a separate ovary of a single flower. A multiple fruit (e.g., pineapple and mulberry) develops from the ovaries of many flowers growing in a cluster. Accessory fruits contain tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary; the strawberry is actually a number of tiny achenes (miscalled seeds) outside a central pulpy pith that is the enlarged receptacle or base of the flower. The core of the pineapple is also receptacle (stem) tissue. The best-known accessory fruit is the pome (e.g., apple and pear), in which the fleshy edible portion is swollen stem tissue and the true fruit is the central core. The skin of the banana is also stem tissue, as is the rind of the pepo (berrylike fruit) of the squash, cucumber, and melon.

<small>[ November 04, 2002, 05:10 PM: Message edited by: Resilient ]</small>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by new_beginning:
How about:

What you put in, your thighs will happily receive.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">No comment.

Hmmmmmmmmmm on the 1/3, 2/3 thing and porn.

Well, I'm part of the 1/3 (male) population, but not the part that watches porn with a spouse - I don't HAVE a spouse. If'n I did, there'd be no porn watchin' lest we made it ourselves. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

So, I'll conclude that some females answered yep to this question.

Dave

Well, well, well,

After a LONG absence from MBland, I come in for a quick look around and what do I find? SHERYL, Jo, Dave, MEDIC and others having a good time and making it look like a pretty good idea to actually VISIT this place again! I have really missed you guys!

I hope you are all doing as well as you sound! I myself am doing pretty fine. Maybe I am finally reaping what I have sown for the past three years! Do you think? I mean, since we are in a DEEP philosophical discussion about Karma and all that!

BOY HAVE I MISSED YOU GUYS!

Peppermint

Sweet, SWEET Peppermint!!

Well, here's the deal-eo... if you do a search on me, you'll see that I go in fits and starts (I *think* this is a start, but it might be a fit, I'm not really sure)... I am on a posting binge right now, for reasons unknown to me... I just get 'in the mood' you know.

I've missed you too!! HUGS!!

Dear Sheryl,

I would say that 5316 posts entitles you to pretty much post as you please! I wonder if you are the champion as well as the QUEEN of MB posting?!

By the way, loved the poll too. How about one on SEX next time? That ought to cause another website crash! Of course it would also bring out the loonies, but I actually miss some of them too!

Peppermint

Yes! Sheryl ... PLEASE DO A POLL ON SEX!

Peppermint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi sweetie! It's been forEVAR. How are you? Can you please please please offer an update on you?

Like old home week around here.

Lv,
Jo

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Resilient:
<strong>In the United States the demand for fresh vegetables during all seasons has been met by improved methods of handling and shipping and the development of large commercial truck farms... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Does anyone know how many large commercial trucks can be grown per acre?

LMAO!

Better question is: are they a vegetable or fruit???

I friggin can't believe you read that whole bloody thing, O2BINSANE!

I can't either. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

Sheryl, I really hope this is a "START" and not a binge for you.

Jo

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by o2bsane:
I can't either. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">And you even comprehended it TOO! Impressive.

A poll on sex, eh? You mean.... like... um...

<eeeeeek> How often do you masturbate? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

I almost threw up just writing that!

I'm just so elated to see Peppermint and 02BSANE too. You guys have been sorely missed.

Please tell us how things are, okay?

Lv,
Jo

No talk of self gratification. Too boring ... too everyday.

Just ask stuff like, ummmm ....

Lemme get back to you on this ....

<small>[ November 04, 2002, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Resilient ]</small>

Sybil POST. Sorry.

<small>[ November 04, 2002, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Resilient ]</small>

See what I mean? Just MENTION sex and people get so befuddled they think trucks grow on farms! That was a good one, o2bsane!

Hey Jo,

I'm doing well (at least for the moment, who really knows once you have entered the INFIDELITY ZONE), thanks to a group of great counselors, an understanding physician, CELEXA, a new job, a reformed husband, and a more positive outlook on life. Firestorm and I are in a good spot in our recovery right now. I don't think I'll ever say that our marriage is better than before the affair, or that it was "worth it" (whatever the heck THAT means), but we have definitely improved on the areas of communication, compromise, fighting fair, POJA, meeting each other's most important EN's, and the rule of TIME. That last one was a big step for us!

We still have some affair related problems to overcome (hence my suggestion of a SEX poll), but we have come so very far in the past two years, much further than I thought we would ever be, much closer to being whole again than I really thought possible. I still see the XOW occasionally, and I really feel absolutely nothing when I do. She has been diagnosed with crippling arthritis and is really starting to decline (see how this works into the KARMA discussion?) and I actually feel sorry for her and especially her husband and three little girls. It still seems so sad and so absolutely senseless.........

But anyway, I am doing as well as possible for ME, I think. And I am so glad to see old friends here and witness the proof that we CAN survive and recover, with or without our spouse!

Thanks for asking about me, and I hope you are doing as well as you sound!

Love,

Peppermint

OH! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

You mean like:

Have you ever used a banana or cucumber (sticking with our kitchen theme) for sexual gratification?