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OK, so as we approach midnight, at the start of another school year: pluots. What's the real deal? I mean, I know what they are, but should I care? How does the fact of pluots affect me, my life, my dreams? Are they symbols, harbingers of a world to come? Should we be frightened of them?
Do we, as a professoriat, have an opinion on pluots? Post your thoughts on pluots here.
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 10:18:16 PM » |
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Pluots are one of my mother's topics of conversation. Please do not be like my mother any more.
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 10:19:48 PM » |
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Is a pluot a hybrid of plum and apricot? (That is what I am assuming). If they are not, what are they? Please explain.
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 10:20:31 PM » |
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I prefer apriums.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 10:21:30 PM » |
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Is a pluot a hybrid of plum and apricot? (That is what I am assuming). If they are not, what are they? Please explain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PluotMs. P., I hate to point this out, but your signature line quotes John Dewey: that "fruitful object of knowledge." Is this not a pluot? |
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 10:21:45 PM » |
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I have not tried them, mostly because I disapprove of their pronunciation.
Plum plus apricot should not be pronounced "ploo - ott." Where does the "ploo" come from? Nowhere respectable, I assure you.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2011, 10:25:38 PM » |
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I prefer apriums.
I was kidding when I wrote this, but I just discovered that apriums do actually exist.. Who knew? |
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2011, 10:26:37 PM » |
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There is, apparently, a pluot variety named the "Flavor Penguin" (see Wikipedia article). They were weird and new in supermarkets around here just 3-4 years ago, and now there are whole bins of them. Just like tilapia a decade or so ago. The genetic engineering aspect weirds me out, although I suppose it's no stranger than other fruits of hybridization we consume every day.... I prefer apriums.
I was kidding when I wrote this, but I just discovered that apriums do actually exist.. Who knew? And plumcots and nectaplums. ...I'm not sure I'm buying any of this, though. I mean, it's Wikipedia, after all. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 10:32:35 PM » |
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I like pluots and many of the other hybrids, but my market doesn't carry any of them. *pout*
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 10:45:10 PM » |
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First time I have heard of such fruit. Never seen them in these parts. Are they a fruit only available in California or the West?
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2011, 10:46:35 PM » |
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I like pluots and many of the other hybrids, but my market doesn't carry any of them. *plout*
I fixed that for you. |
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2011, 10:46:48 PM » |
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
I don't know whether conditions on Pluto are suitable for the growing of pluots. I suspect not.
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« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2011, 10:51:52 PM » |
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First time I have heard of such fruit. Never seen them in these parts. Are they a fruit only available in California or the West?
No, I'm in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/post-Irene metroglopolis. Check your market, Helpful. As I said, they were quite unusual here only a few seasons ago, and now we're awash in them. Like Tribbles. Vox, Pluto isn't a planet anymore, so I don't care. Your Pluto/pluot ploy implodes. |
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« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2011, 10:52:35 PM » |
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Nope, they don't exist here. What do they taste like?
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« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2011, 10:58:21 PM » |
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Vox, Pluto isn't a planet anymore, so I don't care. Your Pluto/pluot ploy implodes.
Dude. Just because it isn't a "planet" anymore doesn't mean it ceased to exist. You could still plant pluots there. Your planetary parochialism is perplexing. VPl |
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