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Former Member
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Looks like we NEED a DENTIST to get new members around here.  You called? The first two interesting COCONUT facts today are on the COCONUT in dentistry!!  Is there nothing this team can't do? Err,... get a new team member? 51 Stuck on a desert island without a toothbrush? Take a piece of COCONUT root, about 3 inches long and flay it on a stone. This makes an acceptable tootbrush. 52 The shell of the COCONUT gives a product used by Pacific Islanders for toothache. It is obtained by burning the endocarp (the shell) and condensing the volatile products which seperate. It is similar to oil of cloves. 53 Until the early 1900's, a whole coconut was the accepted form of currency in the Nicobar Islands. In the South pacific, pieces of COCONUT shell carved into coin-like spheres served as currency. 54 In Bali women are forbidden to touch the COCONUT palm. Because females and coconut trees both share the ability to reproduce, men fear that a woman's touch may drain the fertility of the coconut tree into her own fertility. 55 Natives of New Guinea have their own version of the COCONUTS origins. They believed that when the first man died on the island, a coconut sprouted from his head! Come back soon for more interesting COCONUT facts brought to you by the COCOnauts |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Gets out a coconut frond skirt to go beat the bushes for a NEW MEMBER to join our team. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Gets out a coconut frond skirt to go beat the bushes for a NEW MEMBER to join our team. That means your topless!! Look Rudi the idea is to entice new recruits not drive them away! Please, please I can't take much more of this, somebody please join, anybody.... If only for a few days. I know your watching. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 7, 2005 3:44:16 PM] |
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rudi
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
We pushed through the 300,000 point milestone. yesterday.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Here are today's COCONUT facts brought to you by the COCOnauts.
----------------------------------------Following on with historical facts 56 After Magellan's voyage, Sir Francis Drake sailed from England to the Cape Verde Islands, off Africa's west coast. He, too, was impressed with COCONUTS and wrote "Amongst other things we found here a kind of fruit called Cocos, which because it is not commonly knowen with us in England, I thought good to make some description of it" 57 Though the accounts of many explorers mention COCONUTS , the nuts remained unknown outside the tropics until 1831 when Englishman J.W. Bennett wrote "A Treatise on the Coco-nut Tree and the Many Valuable Properties Possessed by the Splendid Palm." This spurred European interest in the nut. 58 Since sugar was becoming plentiful in Europe, the sweet and pastry business flourished. All sorts of fruits and nuts were incorporated into confections, making COCONUT meat a desirable product. Soon tea and spice traders were shipping whole coconuts to London, an operation that proved expensive and impractable. 59 A Frech company, J.H. Vavasseur, set up operations in Ceylon. They shredded the COCONUT meat and dried it, making it easier to transport without spoilage. By the early 1890's they were shipping 6,000 tons of desiccated coconut. This figure rose to 60,000 tons by 1900. 60 While Europeans were going nuts over COCONUTS there was little interest in the U.S. until 1895, when Franklin Baker, a Philadelphia flour miller received a shipload of coconuts in payment of a debt from a Cuban businessman. After a few unsuccessful attemps to sell the cargo, before it spoiled, he made a decision that put coconuts into the hands of home cooks and commercial confectioners. He set up a factory for shredding and drying the coconut meat. By the early 1900's, coconut cream pie and coconut custard were all the rage. Coconut frosting topped all sorts of cakes.  Five more thrilling, exciting COCONUT facts tomorrow.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 7, 2005 9:45:33 PM] |
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Johnny Cool
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rudi LOL!  |
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Former Member
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No one about?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hmm.... nothing from Rudi. Must have been arrested for wearing a grass skirt.
While we sort out the bail money for Rudi we could do with some help here! What some members will do for their team.Don't admit to anything until we can find a shark, sorry I mean a lawyer.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hmm.... nothing from Rudi. Must have been arrested for wearing a grass skirt. While we sort out the bail money for Rudi we could do with some help here! What some members will do for their team.Don't admit to anything until we can find a shark, sorry I mean a lawyer. Join today and get a Coconut to use on your favourite shyster errr lawyer.. |
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