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Former Member
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Looks at Tony...I wonder if we should start a what to do with a 80 foot Poplar tree thread. I don't think that would be very popular. sorry groan....  As we are fast approaching our first half million team points perhaps we should break open a new thread then.  |
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Former Member
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Looks at Tony...I wonder if we should start a what to do with a 80 foot Poplar tree thread. As we are fast approaching our first half million team points perhaps we should break open a new thread then. Not keen on poking fun at Rudi's fate ... New thread ... yes .. this one is getting toooo long. Tony, if you open a new thread, please put a link at the begining to this one so we don't loose all those nutty sayings  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One last bump before you go.
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One last bump before you go. Not quite, there's life in the old thread yet. So with the assistance of the trusty zimmer frame we bring you some more very interesting COCONUT facts.  90 In northern India, COCONUTS were valued as fertility symbols. When a woman wanted to conceive so would go to a priest to receive her special coconut! 91 Samoans believe that a COCONUT lying on thr ground is not free for the taking but that it belomgs to someone who knows it is there. If you should claim the taboo coconut when no one is looking, the Tapui, a magical spirit will taunt you. This unseen force may strike you by lightening or punish you with a painful incurable illness. 92 The first solid food eaten by a Thai baby is three spoonfuls of the custard like flesh of a young COCONUT , fed to him or her by a Buddist priest. Only 9 items left in the saga of the 101 COCONUT facts.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Your last chance to join Team Seycelles before the last of the extremely interesting 101 COCONUTY facts! 93 Dried half COCONUT shells are used to buff floors. 94 Fossil records from New Zealand indicate that small COCONUT like plants grew there as far back as 15 million years ago. Even older fossils have been found in Rajasthan, India. 95 The stiff leatlet midribs of the COCONUT palm make cooking skewers, kinding arrows or bound into bundles, brooms and brushes. 96 The COCONUT is buoyant in water and are carried over vast distances by marine currents. Nuts collected from the sea, as far north as Norway, have been found to be viable. 97 Coconut coir (the fibre from the husk of the coconut) is used to make ropes, mats, brushes, caulking boats and as a stuffing fibre. It is also used extensively in horticulture as a potting compost. 98 The roots of the COCONUT palm are used to make a dye. The roots are also chewed as a narcotic. 99 The left over fibre from COCONUT milk production is used as a livestock feed.  100 COCONUT oil is used in the manufacture of toilet soaps, shaving cream, liquid soaps,natural shampoo and other cosmetics. When burnt in an open lamp it does not produce a smokey flame. One final fact to reveal. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Coo...a blue star..cool
 Coo...a blue star..cool Coo...a blue star..cool Coo...a blue star..cool!  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Coo...a blue star..cool Coo...a blue star..cool Coo...a blue star..cool Coo...a blue star..cool! Deserted by me team mates....time to break out the coconut wine. No sense of ocassion, have they!      |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Congrats to you Photobytony
  Bit quiet round here - that doesn't bode well   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Congrats to you Photobytony Bit quiet round here - that doesn't bode well Thanks VIAO. It was Thanksgiving Day in Canada yesterday. I expect that accounts for Rudi's absense!  No sign of RobSab anywhere, must have gone into hibernation! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 11, 2005 10:30:34 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Finally... the one you have all been waiting for....
The last of the 101 extremely interesting COCONUT facts! 101 Waving a flag of his own clothes, a tsunami victim dressed in only his underwear was rescued after surviving alone for 25 days on a flattened island in India's Anderman and Nicobar archipelago. Officals on Campbell Bay Island reported that a Nicobarese man named Michael Mangal had been spotted on deserted Pillow Panja Island on January 19th. Mangal was sucked into the sea when the first tsunami wave struck, but an even biger wave dumped him back on the shore. However, he found that no one else from his village had survived. Injured and desperate he survived the next 25 days only on COCONUTS before being rescued. THE END Made in colaboration with the Institute of Coconutolgy, Third door on the left, Main Street, Mahe. Seychelles. SEY 2047987456. Tipimg erors by photobytony Scrutiny by nelsoc Liquid catering by Rudi the Red, Polish sausages by RobSab. The Coconauts wesite will be published this week! Contains all the 101 coconut facts and more. |
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