On topic for the thread, "vegetable" is a dietary and commercial term. "Fruit" is both a dietary term and a botanical term. A tomato is a fruit in the botanical sense of the term, but in dietary terms a tomato is usually considered a vegetable but not a fruit. Perhaps the most "correct" view is that tomatoes are both fruits and vegetables (and that the categories are not, as popularly believed, mutually exclusive).

Mushrooms, though considered vegetables, are not actually plants but fungi.

::: triple sigh :::

No, and in fact, a dictionary doesn't arbitrarily assign definition; it merely indicates how it is used with as much precision as possible. Usage inevitably defines the word, not the other way around. So if you want to maintain that your scientific acuity is such that you wish to question the definition of such a word, be my guest. Most of the world, including those who are considered experts in their field, are perfectly comfortable using the word in said context. Once it reaches this stage, it becomes more than just an "opinion".

Such arbitrary labeling is not unusual. But it is generally more of a hindrance to making a point than an enhancement of it. You can call your dick a flashlight, if you wish, and no one can say you are right or wrong. You are simply assigning it a title. However, until it attains a level of usage, it will not be considered as such by any but yourself. The word "flashlight", to most, will have a set and solitary meaning that has no phallic connotations. Unless they are subliminal, and Freud was right after all.

Take, for instance, this example: "You cannot hum an entire song while holding your nose." Technically speaking, you can. You can hold the tip of your nose, or the top, or in a way that doesn't impede the passage of air. Or you can find a song that is a few seconds long. However, "holding your nose" is generally considered to mean holding it in such a way that air cannot escape or get in, as in when one gets a whiff of the fart. To do this, and hum a song of reasonable length is, indeed, impossible to do. At some point, the air being shot through the voice box to produce a sound will have to be expelled. With one's nose held as per popular usage, and with one's mouth kept shut, expulsion cannot be achieved. The reasonable gist of the sentence is indeed true, in spite of technicalities that may indicate otherwise. Unless you stand to make a bundle on a bar bet that is tethered on such a technicality, pointing such out is less enlightenment or term-defining than douchebaggery of the most pathetic stripe.

Like I said, the logic of a semantic dodge is often unassailable. But it is rarely a salient point, either. You were the one who wished to define the terms, then balked when it was done and it led to a conclusion you didn't care for. If you don't wish to be questioned, then stop throwing out incorrect little posts that merely argue a point that you know less about than you think, as you did in your initial response to pfsr_cain. Interesting that every post you have made to this thread has been one of commentary, not contribution. You've given not one piece of pointless knowledge, in spite of your proclamations to have a head full of them, so you popped off in an effort to show you had a valid contribution with a smarmy "exposing" of someone else's well intentioned post. I think you may have spent a little too much time on some of the Yay-hoo forums and picked up some bad habits.

Sometimes I find you amusing, entertaining, and even enlightening, Landon, in spite of your borderline creepy obsession with underage gymnasts. But this is not one of those times.

Now, to get back on track:

Creedence Clearwater Revival never had a number one song on Billboard's Hot 100.

Andrew Jackson had a bullet lodged next to his heart, from a duel when he was younger.

Martin Luther wrote that the devil had visited him personally and he farted at him.

They were rare, but there were black slaveholders in the pre-civil war United States.

Houdini completed the first manned flight on the continent of Australia.

Is is is.

This is because the work of Creedence transcends categorization and is unquantifiable. The fact that any of their songs charted at all was a blasphemous act by the chartmakers comparable to if Moses had attempted to look upon the burning bush during the creation of the Ten Commandments.

Infidel Goyim chartmakers....

I'm almost certain this is wrong, mainly because the 'middle finger' gesture is not very British at all. Most people here, until American culture began to replace our own, used two fingers. On the other hand I could be conjecturing here.

However, I have heard exactly the same version of this story but with the two-fingers gesture instead of the middle finger gesture, and I've also heard it declaimed as being wrong. The two-fingers up gesture is supposed to represent horns, and it was originally used to suggest that the recipient was being cuckolded (horns is a very old metaphor/symbol for cuckoldry).

Robert Todd Lincoln (Abe's boy) was present at two Presidential assassinations, neither being his father's. He was asleep in the White House when he was informed of that shooting, and went to the President's bedside across the street from Ford Theater.

He was an eyewitness to Garfield's killing, standing with him on a train platform. He was Garfield's Secretary of War.

He was with the Presidential party at the Pan-American Exposition when McKinley was shot, although he did not personally witness the event.

Also, a few months before his father was shot, he (Robert Todd Lincoln) was standing on a train station platform, leaning against a train car, in a crowd. The car began moving, spinning Lincoln down and into the small gap between the platform and the moving train. A man grabbed him by his collar and pulled him quickly up, saving him from serious injury if not death. The man did not realize who Lincoln was, and didn't know until he received a letter a few weeks later from a Union colonel and friend of Lincoln, thanking him for his heroic effort. The man was Edwin Booth, John Wilkes' Booth's less excitable brother.

Also, when he (R.T. Lincoln) stepped down as Secretary of War, he was heard to yell "WAR? HAH !!! GOOD GOD, YA'LL, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, SAY IT AGAIN, NOW !!!"

Yeah, I heard this stuff two. And it wouldn't make sense to cut off only the middle finger two keep an archer from shooting an arrow. English still use two fingers when flicking people off.


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As for Mr. Burke, his first name was William. His skin was hided and made into wallets. I am able to remember Willaim Burke's name so well because the largest spa in Souther California is called Burke, Williams. I love telling this story at school.

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The brain has no nocioceptors, so it cannot feel pain.

The brain is also the only organ that can be transfused to another body without being rejected.

perhaps not in the real universe...but that isn't a statement based on his quote...the quote says given infinite time...

Wrong.

"Fish fish fish fish fish fish fish," and "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo," are both grammatically correct.

The monkeys theory has been disproven.

http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/monkeys.html

This is a good start, but there have been entire chapters in interesting books dedicated to this cause.

obv level

No, they transfered monkey brains.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

On average, 100 people die every year by choking on ball point pens.

The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.

Link?

LOL it's always the third one that gets ya.

wrong:

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.

And don't forget, Tolstoy orginally wanted to call "War and Peace," WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

I can't figure out what that sentence means.

wiki it....it explains it thoroughly.

You're slow on the draw here, buddy.

thanks for the link...interesting article...it basically says that although its very likely that the works of shakespeare would be produced it is not guaranteed...basically there are an infinite series of keystrokes that do not equal shakespeares writing so that it would take an infinite amount of time to get through those before getting to shakespeare...infinitys is fun

I'm not reading all this so I guess you win.

I would like to point out that 17 is not underage, though.

Kudzu wins by resorting to sheer verbosity!

Samuel Johnson famously defined "Lexicographer" as "A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."

He also offered this definition of "network": "Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

It is if she's
A) in some states, like here in Tennessee, or
B) My daughter