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What Is It? for 2/12/12

Posted February 12, 2012 12:00 AM
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02/12/2012 2:48 AM

A mutant zucchini.

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02/12/2012 7:50 AM

I'm pretty sure that this is what my doctor uses on me when he does a prostate exam.

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02/13/2012 7:00 AM

Hope he took you to dinner first..

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02/14/2012 8:18 AM

Do most guys get their prostate checked every month?

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02/12/2012 8:35 AM

When penis pumps go bad...

Details at 11.
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02/12/2012 1:06 PM

Looks like a big animal horn to me (the glass coffee table it is resting on helps give it some scale).

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02/13/2012 5:28 PM

Post a picture of that animal and this thread will be nothing compared to it.

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02/12/2012 2:17 PM

Orchid root...

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02/12/2012 2:40 PM

A salamander

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02/13/2012 5:30 PM

What's that, a hybrid of salami and comander perhaps?

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02/12/2012 3:35 PM

It's a wacumber. The product of cross pollination between a water melon and a cucumber.

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02/12/2012 3:40 PM

Fukushima snake melon?

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02/12/2012 5:36 PM

That's Gord gourd.

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02/13/2012 4:03 AM

Amphisbaenidae slither and squirm,
For such lizards lack limbs, like a worm.
Though these squamates aren't snakes,
It would still give you shakes
If you found one coiled up in your perm.

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02/13/2012 4:47 AM

Monsanto's first attempt at keeping rodents out of crops. Watermelon with snake genes...

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02/13/2012 5:07 AM

Jack's mum left one of the beans on the coffee table.

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02/13/2012 5:27 AM

Eating..

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02/13/2012 6:16 AM

Vegetable of some kind probably a cucumber or zuchini ,
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02/13/2012 6:54 AM

Ah! Those aren't vegetables as they don't grow in the ground. They're probably berries.

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02/13/2012 8:18 AM

Whatever it is, be afraid, very afraid!

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02/13/2012 9:13 AM

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Yeah, right.

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02/13/2012 10:15 AM

Looks like an over grown gourd of some type.

Maybe zucchini.

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02/13/2012 10:24 AM

One of Audrey II's arms.

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02/13/2012 5:39 PM

Scientific name is: Cucurbitaceous Hollander Gostosa.

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02/13/2012 10:35 AM

Chernobyl Cucumber
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A Neukini??

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It's a snake gourd...

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02/13/2012 2:49 PM

Whom ever is keeping it on their coffee table better watch out.

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02/13/2012 3:01 PM

I don't know. Looks like it kinda grew on the kid.

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02/13/2012 6:26 PM

Any Shel Silverstein fan will recognize that as a Slitheree-Dee (aka Slithery-dee and Slithergadee - but Shel himself said "slithereedee" on his album).

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02/14/2012 4:33 AM

It's a very long marrow (one of the squash family).

I have no idea if this vegetable (in the culinary sense rather than the botanical sense) has a different name in the States.

I do like the way the gardener has directed its growth...it looks quite like a snake. 8/10 for artistic impression.

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Aplogies for being late...Just realised the "Daily Digest" in which I found the link was one that got caught in the spam filter...it's got a bit over zealous in the last few days...

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This is a picture of the new easier to slice horizontal watermelon.
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02/15/2012 7:46 AM

It was introduced to me as a snake squash - also known as snake gourd. (I used it at a Halloween party this year - it was a good conversation piece.)

Many people guessed correctly so I won't list the names this week.
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11/06/2012 2:48 PM

Since I started taking Metamucil, I feel wonderful.

I just had to take a picture of some of the results.

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WHOOOF

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