My Dear Old Dad (age 77) has been lurking here at Chiff & Fipple. He would like to join and participate in the conversations, but he has no interest in ITM!
His hobby right now is gardening, expecially, growing strange varieties of hot peppers that probably could be registered as lethal weapons. He also grows unusual plants like macadamia nut trees and miniature pineapples, and is on an ongoing quest to keep armadillos out of his garden. He would enjoy talking about that.
But I suspect what he really wants is a place he can tell stories, make puns, and annoy the moderators.
He really enjoys the personalities here and has told me several times how much he enjoys the different avatars. He has already chosen what his avatar will be-- a picture of a “peter pepper”
Can anyone recommend a gardening forum? A gardening forum that is just as much fun as Chiff and Fipple? Could such a forum possibly exist?
Does he live near you? I’d love to get a couple of quarts of chiles from him around canning time, as I’m in a totally wooded yard now, and there’s nothing like the home grown stuff.
Speaking personally, I’d welcome him posting in the pub. No love of ITM required around here. I’d be happy to get into heated debate about the relative merits of habaneros vs Tabascos or jalapenos vs serranos.
If those peppers are anything like they look, they’re not hot at all. Capsicum impotens, anyone?
Caroluna, I’d chide you with a great chiding for being impudent and posting suggestive vegetables but it took me a while before I could wring any meaning out of what I was looking at. Please don’t try harder.
Those aren’t Capsicum impotens. I’m pretty sure those are V. subscription espirato.
There used to be these clear plastic face molds you could get that you wrapped around bell peppers. As the fruit grew, it took on the shape of the mold. Something like this:
((Cheesey, cheesey))
(This is a song about vegetables, they keep ya regular
They’re real good for ya)
Call any vegetable, call it by name
Call one today when you get off the train
Call any vegetable and the chances are good
Ah, that the vegetable will respond to you
(Some people don’t go for prunes… I
Don’t know, I’ve always found that if they…)
Call any vegetable, pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable lonely at home
Call any vegetable and the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you
(A prune isn’t really a vegetable.
Cabbage is a vegetable…)
No one will know
If you don’t want to let them know
No one will know
'Less it’s you that might tell them so
Call and they’ll come to you
Covered with dew
Vegetables dream, of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your hand while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
Now it’s back to the gutter with this splendid tomato which looks like a bottom.
(image censored in the interests of propriety, but check out the link)
sorry nano I won’t do it again…but dear old dad would be proud of me
