Hi Rudi, Yony.

I have a problem at home with my PCs - I think the power went off on Friday evening and therefore my PCs reboot. Unfortunately, they have passwords on them (windows XP) and have not reloaded the agent... so no crunching till next week :o((

I have the agent crunching on my laptop... so that will give a few points. Sorry

Have a good one and keep up the good work fellow Coconauts!!

More coconut facts fron the coconauts. Today...

The COCONUT in history

46 Spanish and Portuguese explorere were taken by the three little eyes at the base of the COCONUTS inner shell that reminded them of a goblin or grinning face, and named them coco, the word for goblin. Some have translated the word coco to mean monkey face.

47 Early Sanskrit writings reveal that the people of India were using COCONUTS as a staple food and for various everyday needs. In India the coconut palm was known as kalpa vriksha which translates as "tree that gives all that is necessary for living."

48 Published in 1755, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Lanuage spelled the drupe COCOANUT. Many people thought Johnson had confused the nuts with cacao beans, later called cocoa, when chocolate was introduced into England. Eventually the"a" was left out. Sometimes it was spelled with a hyphen COCO-NUT.

49 COCONUTS made a strong impression on Venetian explorer Marco Polo ( 1254-1324) when he encountered them in Sumatra, India and the Nicobar Islands ( no, one did not fall on his head ), calling them "Pharoah's nut". The reference to the the Egyptian ruler indicated Polo was aware that during the 6th century Arab merchants brought COCONUTS back to Egypt probablly from East Africa where the nuts were flourishing. See exciting fact No. 45.

50 Magellan encountered a host of troubles, mainly scurvey and starvation. A last minute decision to go ashore when they spotted the island of Guam brought them further trouble. Unfriendly natives wearing COCONUT shell masks and shaking COCONUT shell rattles with human bone handles greeted them on the shore, Magellan was able to negotiate and came away with provisions anda good supply of COCONUTS.
BONUS FACT Had it not been for the curiosity of Antonio Pigafetta, a nobleman from Venice who decieded to explore the world as a tourist, Ferdinand Magellan's voyage from Spain in 1519 might have gone unrecorded. Pigafetta boarded one of Magellan's five ships and kept a daily journal of Magellan's effort to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Pigafetta wrote" Coconuts are the fruit of the palm trees..and as we have bread, wine, oil and vinegar, so they get all these things from the said trees....with two of these palm trees a whole family of ten can sustain itself..."

Join the COCONAUTS on their quest to spead the COCONUT through out the galaxy.

Looks like I'm talking to myself, here.

Still could do with a hand here while Rob completes his cure.

Ehhhh!

Looks like we NEED a DENTIST to get new members around here.