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Friday What is it?

08/14/2015 7:14 AM

It's Friday, so here you are...

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08/14/2015 7:25 AM

Sliced runner bean tartlette with joux d'épinards?

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08/14/2015 9:00 AM

PS I know it should be "jus" but "joux" is so much more Loyd Grossman .

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08/14/2015 9:20 AM

I do so like a little tart now and again...

Although at my age I can seldom manage the "again"

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08/14/2015 7:50 AM

Fruit with its side sliced off?

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08/14/2015 8:03 AM

The green reminds me of Abalone, the serrated concertina form reminds me of windpipe formation in mamals, the trachea.

So I would guess shelfish/molusk trachea or something similar.

My back-up guess is the seed membranes from a pumpkin or similar with the seeds removed. (I often saveseeds from vegetables for next season planting.) Though in this case the colour indicates that they would be immature and not viable for growing.

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08/15/2015 6:36 AM

For future reference, the mammal trachea does not resemble a serrated concertina in the slightest. The incomplete rings of cartilage are separate from each other (which makes an emergency tracheotomy that much easier).

Also shellfish do not have a trachea, which is a tube for passing large volumes of air
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08/16/2015 7:44 AM

Thanks for the heads up on that.

Del totally got me with this one. I looked up the "properties" of the picture and got his intentional distraction. I was making the story in my response fit his picture topic to appear smart.

I do come from a farming background and have seen many animal trachae (We used to butcher our own sheep and cattle.) so I do know they are not serrated/concertina at all.

ps. I also spent a little time as an anaesthetist for open chest surgery in a veterniary program.

It comes down to this. DEL got me good!!!!!

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08/14/2015 8:18 AM

Stomata and spiracles (various types of breathing hole) also come to mind.

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08/14/2015 8:49 AM

Ah, I should warn I did rename the image as a deliberate red herring or is it the gills of a green herring?

Some close answers, but no cigar.

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08/14/2015 8:55 AM

Glad I didn't get sidetracked by thinking of checking out the image info .

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08/14/2015 8:58 AM

A singularity, I guess, it is best to have someone to talk to at this wonderful sight seeing.

A particle to wave duality may seem fit at Fridays. or couple of harmonics perhaps.

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08/14/2015 9:11 AM

It's obviously a fur ball...hope you feel better Del!

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08/14/2015 9:21 AM

The end part of a squash where the stem was detached with a pattern carved into it?

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08/14/2015 9:33 AM

A slime mold growth on lime gelatin.

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08/14/2015 9:44 AM

There is no human intervention, it's all natural.

I'll give you an idea of scale...

It's 10 foot across... nah, just kidding

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08/14/2015 3:25 PM

A zucchini with a slice taken out after drying a bit.

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08/14/2015 9:52 AM

A hole in the side of a zucchini, where something has chewed or cut the skin away.

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08/14/2015 9:57 AM

We have a winner!
I think it's slug damage that has healed over as it's grown...

I cut a couple this afternoon... they'll end up in a Tuna pasta dish...
Next question, should I open a bottle of my Rhubarb and Sultan wine to go with it?

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08/14/2015 10:03 AM

Probably, that guy is a gardener. My skin follicle chill when I imagined something like that grow on a skin. -a terrifying sight.

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08/14/2015 8:54 PM

Heyyy - I had it first! Er well, I guess not technically. BUT, I had the idea earlier and was not able to post because I had to unload an ammonium nitrate tanker (which was late due to fires in Oregon causing road closures and detours).

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08/15/2015 2:40 AM

Sultan wine??? Did the Sultan of Brunei die? Did you ferment him? () He was such a good friend of mine, why did no one tell me?

I've got to go now...

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08/15/2015 2:42 AM

Which side is the slug on, Del?

(We don't make floss for slug bits)

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08/15/2015 3:32 AM

WOW!!

I was MILES away!!!

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08/14/2015 10:11 AM

A lizard with an eye infection?

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08/14/2015 10:36 AM

just add vodka
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08/14/2015 11:16 AM

Momma Mia!, some dooty bastages been masticazione on my zucchini!

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08/14/2015 2:11 PM

Hey Giuseppe, is it ok I use suction cups to tie this on my Vespa?

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08/15/2015 3:31 AM

Some sort of sea animal or plant that anchors itself onto rocks and the like with such a foot/sucker?

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08/15/2015 10:17 AM

First thought: do I really want to know?

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08/15/2015 11:05 AM

You gotta eat it before it eats you

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08/17/2015 8:05 AM

Vulcan brain surgery?
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