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Cartoon Tomatoes Haiku: Josh

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Mutant tomatoes!
I’ve never seen such a weird things.
Are the edible?


 
Josh got a kick out of the “hot” hot pepper thread. I’ve closed that thread– this is the new one.

I’ve made a new rule: No discussing grammar or spelling and especially giving long lectures about mistakes that might be typos in comments. Exception: You are making a joke about a particularly funny typo that changed the meaning of a sentence or word. You can suggest I correct mistakes in posts or titles. Note: Discussing definitions of words is permitted. Knowing what someone means by a word is necessary to understand what they mean. It is also not grammar.

If typos, spelling errors and/or grammar errors are your pet peeves, take it to Language Log. (Don’t expect much sympathy for your peeves from that group of linguistics professors who sometimes make fun of people who indulge in peeveblogging and peeveology.

Of course my rule will be enforced as haphazardly as all other rules. But if you exhibit too many violations, I’ll moderate you.

Open thread. Update I’ve activated “After the Deadline” for comments. It’s supposed to … do something… You should see a little “ABC” check mark right under the comment. Check that after typing in your comment and it should find typos etc. (There is supposed to be a version for full posts. I need that too!)

54 thoughts on “Cartoon Tomatoes Haiku: Josh”

  4. Actually these are 100% natural, so my guess is I have cartoon fingers rather than green ones.

    It could be the artist’s equivalent of the philosopher’s stone… everything I touch goes funny.

    Oh dear.

  6. All– Check out the little blue “ABC” with a green check mark above the “submit” button. It’s supposed to be an intelligent editor. With some luck, this will do a better job than self-appointed volunteer grammar mavens. (It suggested a ‘-‘ in self-appointed so I inserted one. 🙂 See, it already works.)

  7. One of the charming things about this site is the somewhat eccentric spelling and grammar rules that apply. I’d be sad to see this all fixed ;(

  8. I intentionally wrote “steemed tomatoe” because of your spelling and grammar rule, so would have ignored the abc check mark’s advice. And it tried to correct me now, but to no avail.

  10. steveta_uk– I will feel free to ignore the advice when the checker suggest I fix phrases like “Ah’m a fixin’ to go to the store”.

  11. Lucia,

    “little ABC button”

    Thanks. Maybe not quite as useful as the old 10 minute edit function, but still a big help….. to avoid distractions based on typos.. in the heat of battle. 🙂

  12. … and I’m happy to see the presumably unintentional grammatical error that occurred before that phrase 😉

    Edit seems to work – but I added this 15 minutes later!

  13. steveata_uk… Well… as blog admin, I could fix it. But.. nah.

    SteveF–I’m looking for a new ‘edit’ plugin right now.

  18. Andrew_KY–
    I’m fiddling. Yes. The new “edit” plugin has a “delete” feature. A few people have regretted their comment and would like to delete. I’m going to see if there is a time limit. (I don’t think they should get to delete comments people already responded to.)

  20. I’ve set the “edit” feature to give you 3 minutes to edit, and delete to give you 1 minute. If you wrote the comment these buttons should show. I need to log out and check if they really are showing.

  26. but my edit / delete buttons are only text… no nuffin when I click on em
    (didn’t catch nuffin…is that a word?)

  27. The wet duck flys at night

    The wett duck flies at nite

    It is now time for all good men to come to the aid of their country

    Andres

  31. SteveF–
    Yes. I’m sticking stuff in to track down the problem. It looks like there might be a bug in the plugins “time” measurement. I’ll figure out where that is and fix it.

  34. There seems to be a problem with
    function dateValid($date,$type)

    I’m reading about mysql2date, how dates are passed and where time() gets it’s time from. There must be a mismatch because the plugin *does* know I want to give you guys 3 minutes to edit and 1 minute to delete.

  36. On my screen, each commenter starts his or her remarks with the catchy phrase

    edit/ delete button?

    Maybe “Button” is everyone’s pet name for Lucia, and the new grammar coaching software is at work —

    [Whaddaya think about this comment? Should I] edit? delete?, Button?

    j/k

  37. Josh —
    As the tomato protuberances look like noses [well, to me at least], I’m wondering if you can grow a specimen with “ears” as well. Perhaps there’s something that one can do to stimulate growth in a particular direction.

  39. My daughter does genetic research. Maybe she can offer an idea.
    I would for sure save seeds from these and see if I could get their seeds to do this again next year.

  42. Okay Lucia I will make you a deal. You give me some foods you want recipes for and I will provide them. Then I want you to do a post on who thinks 590ppm is the tipping point in the atmosphere. Why is this a good trade? I happen to live with one of the greatest cooks alive today. I guarantee you I can give you crazy recipes with secret ingredients that are dripping in awesomeness. How about carrot souflait? (Spelled souflait wrong I’m sure) Baked Alaska? This ain’t yo mama’s banana puddin? I’ve got them all.

  43. Dr. Shooshmon, phd,
    My nephew studied at the Culinary Institute of America. I don’t need to write a post on the tipping point to get great recipes.

    Others– I’m trying to sort out the issue with the plugin. In the meantime, I do have a place holder for the “edit/delete” buttons, even though it looks funny.

  44. Ot Lucia: but the warmistas were MORE right this time about the NH ice it has not tracked 2005 as I thought it it would you/they win THIS time hahahah. Also UHA temps are tracking according to warmista theory so far but it will take me at least 10000 years to be convince more hahaha.

  47. but Lucia, that banana puddin sounded soooooo goooooood
    shooshmon, just break out that recipe if she don’t wanna bite

  48. I know this doesn’t have anything to do with the Global Warming Hoax, but it does hit close to home.

    “COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lawyer for a runaway Christian convert from Ohio who was also an illegal immigrant says the 18-year-old woman has gained permanent residency in the United States.

    …Bary had sought the green card as she argued in court she could not reunite with her Muslim parents, whom she alleged threatened her with harm for converting.”

    http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2010/09/07/story-columbus-rifqa-bary-us-citizen-granted.html?sid=102

    The chance to live and walk free. 🙂

    Andrew

  49. do not worry lucia. this is, how plenty of tomatoes will look, after the net nuclear power plant blows up.
    .
    as this topic seems to be the follow up to the “ice open” one, here another update:
    .
    The latest value : 5,034,219 km2 (September 7, 2010)
    .
    a serious drop below the “revised” Goddard guess. but Steve used the opportunity to make a post that shows him bang on target, on the day when extent fell through his “revised” estimate. totally bizarre.
    .
    http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/arctic-forecast-verification/

  50. Lucia, what restaurant does your nephew cook at? I was very dissappointed by your answer, you should know by now that there are plenty of people who haven’t gone to school who are still very talented in their line of work. Additionally, I highly doubt your nephew learned to make something complex like Baked Alaska or Carrot Souflait. Also, some of my recipes are very old and your nephew can’t possibly have learned them. But I suspect really the issue is you are scared to make a post about tipping points because it would actually separate the differences in opinion everyone here has. You should change the name of your page because this is not where climate talk gets hot. Instead, it’s where climate talk gets wimpy. Lucia, Timothy Geithner is the Treasury Secretary and he has never held a private job. He has always held a government job, same with Christina Romer. Additionally, this is true of Obama also. None of these people have actually conducted business, instead they have theorized and theorized. That Steve McIntyre guy is not a climatologist and he caught Michael Mann and the team cheating. James Hansen is supposed to be this genius scientist and almost nobody challenged him when he made his big fake predictions. The lone person who did was Rush Limbaugh and I say he has more heart and more guts than almost anyone in America right now. Please stop listening to the group think and make some decisions yourself.

    Whoever wanted that banana dessert recipe, send me your email if you still want it because I am not posting it on here. I don’t want Sod or Fancy Pants my nephew goes to the culinary institute to have it. Oh no no, he went to HHHHHHAVARD old chap, he’s the best and the brightest. HHHHHHHHHAVARD you say? Why, why didn’t you say so old chap! The man’s infallible!

  51. So Sod are you saying the ice caps are going to be totally melted soon or are you just attacking Steve Goddard. I don’t care I’m just trying to see what you’re driving at. Please don’t feed me some line of crap about how all the ice is going to melt. We both know the world has been warmer and the ice caps melted and sometimes they didn’t melt. In fact, the ice caps are actually a rare occurence in earth’s history so we should be surprised that they are even here.

  52. Josh, send some of those tomatoes to Dallas/Fort Worth… zebras and giraffes are abandoning Noah’s Arc there and might need some fresh food soon

  53. From The Firefighter’s Prayer in Memory of 9/11:

    And this Tuesday morning
    In my heavy gear and helmet
    Stairs lined by the subdued and stunned
    Elegant in morning pressed clothes and fresh deodorant
    Eyes eloquent in their despair for me
    They shuffle down as I lumber sweating up
    Each stair the rhythm of my mantra
    Ah Jesus,
    Ah Jesus,
    Ah Jesus,
    Ah

    http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa092501c.htm

    Andrew

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