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geoscope · Post by **geoscope** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:33 pm

micheal_andreas_stahl wrote:I'm 15 and my birthday is the 10th of november. Jokes, Quotes and stoies about the horrers of growing older appreciated. Oh and a Alppaca on the side

Wouldn't the alppaca be the main course?

micheal_andreas_stahl · Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:29 pm

No. I'm vegetarian. My perants want to raise them for their wool. Wool is the first thing that they are used for and the second is for guarding sheep and Goats. It is good as in Australia (well the part i come from) Foxes are a big problem. I have chickens. Had 24. 2 Dead of some bug, while 12 were taken by Foxes.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:56 am

dat's "alpaca" one P

like "llama" has 2 L's

like a "vicuna" needs a tilde

like a "camel" has 2 humps.

arm your chickens with suicide bombs and you'll get a nice fox cap and azucena besides the ground chicken dish.

Note: Azucena is a traditional filipino food (I don't eat it, and will never eat it.. EVER) in which the main ingredient is... DOG.

I guess fox would do nicely.

Though, it's certainly better than the other filipino dish called "Forget-Me-Not" made from... CENSORED.. don't ask.

..okay okay.. bull's private organs. lol

But I do love 3 other thing filipinos love and foriegners hate or at least don't knwo nothing about:

1) We put KETCHUP and not gravy on our fried chicken.

2) Balut and Penoy. Made from duck's eggs. The thing with balut is that... the chick inside the egg is already partly formed. And all soft and squishy, and you're drinking the amniotic fluid, eating the placenta, and then gulping down the chick.

3) Durian. People are divided into 2: Those who love durian's smell and those who hate it. I fall with the first category. Ever smelt a durian? No? You're missing 3 quarters of your life.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:05 am

What's Durian?

Post by **jackS** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:13 pm

mmm..... durian smoothies....

It's a fruit. A fragrant, fragrant, tasty fruit.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:47 am

It's a fruit. My favorite fruit in all the whole wide world.

After that comes mango, then grapes (and only because grapes are pretty expensive here, and eating grapes has always been associated with childhood memories of christmas or new years).

JackS!!!

You find it fragrant too

Most people who first smell it (that is, never tasted it) say that it smells like something bad.

For me, it's the opposite, I was raised on it. My mother said she ate durian while pregnant with me.

So In filipino tradition of "lihi" (that is you supposedly acquire the characteristics of the food that your mother craved for in your pregnancy), I should also either smell good or smell horrible. lol. joke

Honestly it's the most penetrating (add titillating, exciting, erotic.. lol) and sweetest smell on earth... If you've got the nose for it.

geoscope · Post by **geoscope** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:18 pm

Never heard of durian, but it can't be as pungent as limburger and pickled herring. I'll have to see if I can find that fruit around here and give it a try.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:35 pm

Never heard of it either. Will try to do a google search to see what this is and if it has a name i am familer with.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:12 pm

And an advice:

NEVER EVER SLEEP BENEATH A DURIAN TREE.

That fruit is as big or bigger than a human head, stone hard and heavier.

And it falls from the branches on its own at night.
There's a funny singaporean sign in th wiki, about durians and trains..

Read about Durian at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

Want to know more exotic fruit?

How about Makopa?
Mangosteen?
Rambutan?

umm.

Chico?
Tisa'?

"Santo Papa" - a weedy vine actually, with the same reputationa mong filipino children as the gooseberry has in european ones. i.e. wild growing.

lol

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:57 pm

I think in Australia we call them custard apples.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:53 am

No you don't. Custard Apples are have soft thin skin with a creamy white pulp inside. Some small spines, but the spines of custard apples don't hurt you. These do.

Take note: Custard apple seeds are small and black. Durian's seeds are as big as Avocado seeds and are a light brown color.

We call custard apples here differently by their variety.

We have the Abana, the Guyabano, the Atis...

etc.

Though we also have a lot of similar looking fruit, like the Marang (The Jackfruit), the Nanka (Breadfruit, maybe? I don't know for sure).

They look a bit similar.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:43 am

Oh.

What about fruit salad plants?

micheal_andreas_stahl · Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:22 pm

Oblivion wrote:We have the Abana, the Guyabano, the Atis...

What are these?

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:40 am

fruit salad plants.

soursop and relatives. What you call custard apples. I don't like them much tho.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:41 am

What other plants are eat able?

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:51 am

weeeeelll...I eat..

grass, (not pot. grass).

weeds, (not pot. weeds).

and I boil it in a pot (not grass. pot!)

joke!!!!!!!

micheal_andreas_stahl · Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:32 pm

I like it.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:28 pm

uhuh... so you're a goat too?

micheal_andreas_stahl · Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:57 am

Well, a Mountain Goat.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:58 am

I thought mountain goats eat rock (not heroin) and ice (not morphine)?
Which they find in cracks (not cocaine)?

lol.

I'm a plains goat. Enough narc talk already.

grendel0226 · Post by **grendel0226** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:10 pm

Your durians look a lot like what we call "monkey brains" for slang, except I've never seen a cooked monkey brain, and it starts as a round, green, spiky, and apparently sweet fruit.

Sleeping under monkey brain trees would be pretty painful. I've seen how hard those things hit kickballs at recess when in fifth grade. The fruit splattered, and a teacher needed to retrieve the ball from about 20 yards away.

I'm 19, although my age usually escapes me since I really haven't had anything age-wise to look forward to. The lottery never really interested me, the draft is something I dread, and as much as I hated high school, I hated the thought of being out in "the real world" even more. I also won't ever be able to drink and I tried smoking at a young age, which wasn't all that great anyways. I take meds that make even some over the counter medicines a bad idea, let alone alcohol and illegal drugs.

There is one plus to being 19 though. I can buy modern medieval style weaponry at the local Rennaisance Faire. Citizens can apply for a gun permit and get a gun after 21, but I don't plan on owning any that I can find ammo for.

As a side note, I tend to read constantly, if not at a computer then by books, though they both have their advantages and disadvantages.

I'm also having one hell of a time getting the scanner part of my printer/copier/scanner working because of (what 2 electronics geeks have concluded) windows patches. I was wondering if there's a way to flash the firmware on it since there's no patches that I can find for my HP PSC 1510 through the USB cable. Maybe going into Electrical Engineering isn't such a great idea since I can't figure out how to do that, and I can't do code very well. I'm pretty good at art, poetry, and electronic theory. Man this turned random...

Melonhead · Post by **Melonhead** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:24 am

Well, since grendel0226 sort of resurrected this this trail...

1) Custard apples? Wow, suddenly mangos seem so boring. Do they have another name? (Or is my chain being completely yanked?)

2) Draft? Your location says "Ohio." There hasn't been a draft in the USA for 35 years. I'm thinkin' you can relax...

3) Favorite author: Jerry Pournelle, followed closely by C.J. Cherryh. Cherryh is why I'm a merchant. (There are no Earth Carrier Ships available for purchase at the Commodity Exchange/Trade Center. Yet...)

4) My Mom has a llama (the animal, not the spaceship). Very good for keeping the coyotes away from the sheep. (Obviously, she does not live in Hampton.)

Shissui · Post by **Shissui** » Sat May 12, 2007 1:20 pm

@Melonhead: Soldiers who have served 3 years or more in Iraq are 13% less likely to re-enlist than soldiers who have not gone to Iraq. The last time that US re-enlistment dropped by such an extreme was in 1970.

Personally, I would think that anyone subject to US draft registration laws should be very concerned.

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