[11:07
AM] Mr. Brown:
Oh,
I got some more paw paws
There
were lots on the ground though. I did not get there before they
really started getting ripe so they were falling off like crazy
[11:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
Where'd
you get them?
[11:12
AM] Mr. Brown:
At
my paps
He
has two paw paw trees
Only
learned this though like a year ago
lol
I
picked some when i was there on Saturday
[11:15
AM] Mr. Blue:
What
do they taste like?
[11:16
AM] Mr. Brown:
banana
cream
[11:16
AM] Mr. Blue:
hmm
[11:16
AM] Mr. McGreen:
What
is a paw, pa?
[11:16
AM] Mr. Blue:
Local
fruit
[11:16
AM] Mr. McGreen:
never
heard of em
[11:16
AM] Mr. Blue:
Me
either until a few years ago
never
actually seen or tasted one
[11:17
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Mr.
Brown, have you had durian?
or
you Mr. Blue
[11:17
AM] Mr. Blue:
no
[11:17
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Adam
gets them occasionally at the strip district
I
may try one
[11:18
AM] Mr. Blue:
You
sure they're durians?
there's
a lot of things that look like durians but aren't
Supposedly
they smell so bad most places don't carry them, and i never smelled
them when i was in the strip
[11:20
AM] Mr. McGreen:
yea
they are durians, said the smell being THAT potent is kind of a myth
[11:20
AM] Mr. Blue:
They're
not allowed on subways in SE Asia
(Mr.
Brown passes Mr. Blue some paw paw – Mr. Silver)
[11:31
AM] Mr. Blue:
Kind
of custardy/yogurty
Like
a banana/blueberry yogurt
I
wish i had a place to plant paw paws
You
do Mr. Brown... you could have a small orchard
[11:34
AM] Mr. Brown:
Yep
I
was thinking we could do that as one of the food sources
lol
It's indigenous, so less to do to keep it
[11:36
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Then
we'll make some into moonshine
paw
paw shine
[11:36
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
currently have blueberries
Grapes
apples
I
could try and plant some paw paw
This
thing is basically a PA Bananna
including
the stuff that good for you in it
same
as a bannan
bannana
i
can't spell that
lol
[11:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
And
it's not even domesticated/cultivated like a banana
it's
just wild, and still decent
Imagine
if you grew them and cross-bred them to be larger and last longer
[11:40
AM] Mr. Brown:
They
get pretty big already. That was a small one
or
are you talking pumpkin big
[11:41
AM] Mr. Blue:
hey,
why not?
[11:41
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
bet it would lose flavor doing that
[11:43
AM]
No
one ever bred a fruit for improved size and flavor...
Like
watermelons...
(farmer,
5000 years ago) "Crazy am I? Why, I tell you, before I die
at 35, I'll have bred these up to the size of a duck egg, and they'll
taste slightly less bitter!"
[11:43
AM] Mr. McGreen:
have
you had jackfruit? Anyone?
[11:45
AM] Mr. Blue:
don't
think so
[11:45
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Some
say they are the answer to world hunger
[11:45
AM] Mr. Blue:
Why?
Are they deadly poisonous?
[11:46
AM] Mr. McGreen:
tee
hee
No.
They are huge, plentiful, and can be prepared a lot of different
ways
[11:48
AM] Mr. Blue:
heh
Wasn't
corn originally just grass?
The
ear being the little tuft of whatever you see on grass if you let it
grow?
[11:49
AM]
Little
6 row things with a few dozen seeds, i think.
[11:49
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Have
you had paw paw?
Apparently
its a thing. A PA thing
[11:50
AM]
A
“PA paw”
"This
tastes like a pair of dog feet!"
As
I understand it, it has issues with rapid spoilage
[11:52
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Mr.
Brown is going to farm paw paw
Mr.
Blue and Mr. Brown going into the paw paw business
[11:53
AM] Mr. Blue:
That
would explain my sudden violent stomach ache
[11:54
AM] Mr. McGreen:
seriously?
[11:54
AM] Mr. Blue:
lol
no
[11:54
AM] Mr. McGreen:
oh
[11:54
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
actually think it would calm a stomach ache
[12:02
PM] Mr. McGreen:
Farmer
Brown's Hypothecary
[12:02
PM] Mr. Brown:
I
have a sassyfrass tree too
but I'm going to dig it out
it
grew into my blueberrrys
All
the Brown's are farmers
or
were
My
pap with all his brothers worked on the family farm
And
a lot of them got their own farms
one
specializes in blackberries
[12:03
PM] Mr. McGreen:
i
was reading about farming and the generational aspects of it
[12:03
PM] Mr. Blue:
we
have 1 sassafras too
it's
huge
[12:04
PM] Mr. Brown:
sassy
frass tea is good but not good in large amounts
for
you
[12:04
PM] Mr. McGreen:
i
want woods and land so i can make homemade booze
don't even wanna sell it
Just
think it'd be neat
[12:04
PM]
You
can tell Mr. Brown is country bred because he can't pronounce his products.
[12:04
PM] Mr. McGreen:
or
spell them.
lol
[12:04
PM]
Right
He
has a suspicious number of teeth
But
he did say he's getting a crown.
[12:05
PM] Mr. McGreen:
How
much land do you have Mr. Brown
[12:05
PM]
(watches
for use of 'rods' and 'hectares'.)
[12:05
PM] Mr. Brown:
1.35
acer
acr
arge
[12:05
PM]
Argchres
[12:06
PM] Mr. Brown:
acres!
[8:04
AM]
Live
rounds
Looking
at a bit of net fluff
"The suspect had boxes
and boxes of live rounds!"
I
paused to think that "round" is meaningless in a bullet
context
Maybe
a musket ball, but that's not "live" either
A
dummy and a blank aren't real bullets...
Who
the Hell came up with such a stupid thing to say?
And
then my subconscious said "The British"
I
haven't checked yet...but they have a history of such things
[8:13
AM] Mr. Blue:
It
sounds like a bomb term
[8:13
AM]
Yet
it never seems to used for bombs
[8:13
AM] Mr. Blue:
parlayed
into bullets
[8:17
AM]
Round
like a round of drinks?
Pour
out shots and everyone has one, and then go to the next round?
(round
being "pass around"?)
It's
still bizarre, and my searches are explaining nothing for origin.
It's
a derived idiom for "bullet" (IMO)
[8:25
AM] Mr. Blue:
Maybe
cuz musket balls are round
[8:26
AM]
Nod...that
was in my stack 'o pondering
Such
a ball would be “dead” on it's own though...unless it means
loaded in the gun with a charge of gunpowder making it “alive”. So even an
all-in-one musket cartridge wasn't “live” until you loaded and
primed/capped it.
Post
powder and ball, only a metal cartridge bullet with built in primer
can be a "live round" since they're potentially volatile...but bullets were no longer round by then.
So...”live”
“rounds” never actually existed in the context used for them.
So
just say "bullet"
[8:27
AM] Mr. Blue:
Maybe
when both musket balls and bullets overlapped they needed to denote
which was which?
[8:33
AM]
(Very
public school Brit officer addressing corps, 1884) "E-auch of
yew men wih-all be izz-yued tw-ah scohr wive wounds fohr yewr
long-harms..."
(grumbling
regulars)
"Jee-sus...what's he talking about?"
"Ows
'ee gonna shout commands spoutin' that muck?"
"What the Hell are
'wive wounds'?"
[8:34
AM] Mr. Blue:
Hehehe
[9:28
AM] Mr. Brown:
Well
I understand the "live" part
But
no, I never really thought about “round”.
