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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...

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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.

With apologies to mike scholtes

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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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02/13/2012 10:38 AM

A Neukini??

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02/13/2012 11:14 AM

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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The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea.
He may catch all the others, but he won't catch me.
No, you won't catch me, old Slithergadee,
You may catch all the others, but you wo--

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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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02/14/2012 4:37 AM

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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02/14/2012 10:19 AM

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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