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Post by alanseago on Aug 28, 2009 14:57:09 GMT
I have limited vision. I cannot see anything more than 24 miles away. So you've never seen the moon? Oh Alan!   Don't be silly, the moon is just outside my window, not now of course, its asleep. |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 28, 2009 15:36:33 GMT
How about this then; Amongst the "Partially Sighted" community - a certain type of blind person - the type who was deliberately 'needy' and didn't make an effort to even attempt to do things for themselves would be known as "A Swede"! I like it. But why?  I can only think as a derivative of that other perennial insult; "Turnip."  |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 29, 2009 5:17:49 GMT
Do not forget that a Turnip in Scotland and Ireland means a Swede and probably the usage for white turnips ousted it in England as they came in from France. They are very different things (if only I could get decent purple navets in this country! Far better than radishes!). There's confusion before that too because swedes belong more on the rape side of the family and [white] turnips on the 'neep' side, but the official Latin is reversed with turnips as Brassica rapa and rape as Brassica napa (and swede Brassica napobrassica - apparantly it is a cross between a cabbage and a turnip with none of the advantage of either! Try Kohlrabi, an edible stem). The mistake might be understandable if they were writing in Old English or Hebrew script where N and R can look very alike but I doubt they were - so it ain't!
Just a thought: why is it that when sane people try to debate creationists they always let the latter set the rules about no intermediate animal species? Plants are full of hybrids and obvious species similarities that can lead you from a cabbage to a rhubarb via spinach and dock, or from a parsnip to a hemlock via coriander.
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Post by alanseago on Aug 30, 2009 12:48:53 GMT
"Plants are full of hybrids and obvious species similarities that can lead you from a cabbage to a rhubarb via spinach and dock, or from a parsnip to a hemlock via coriander. "
I know a forum or two where they do that!
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