HUMONGOUS VEGETABLE UPDATE

As well as yet another GNFARB: Monster Marrow

(Thanks to Siouxie and Jeff Renner)

Comments

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

I've seen bigger marrows . . .

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

What's a marrow?

[Annie Where-but-here]

If that thing grew in my garden, I'd move. Then call Stephen King.
(Yay, Siouxie finally got posted!)

[Dr. Bob]

< M <<
("M" arrow)

[Dr. Bob]

8==8
(bone marrow)

[pogo]

Mohat - it's a squash, but the skin is usually smoothe.

-or-

When ah moon hits your eye like a big a-pizza pie,
'at's a-morrow.

[pogo]

*swaps 'a' for 'o' in 'morrow'*

[pogo]

*the first 'o'*

[Hammond Rye]

"And how would you describe you record-setting vegetable?"

"Well, it's mottled green and brown, with a lumpy scaly surface oblong in shape and about 3 - 4 feet long."

"So, a giant booger?"

"Yes"

[Siouxie]

♬ To-marrow, To-marrow
I love ya, To-marrow
You're always a day awayyyyyy....♪

[Joe Dolce]

What's a marrow?

Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | 02:02 PM on September 5, 2008

What's-a marrow you, hey, gotta no respect...

[crossgirl]

i used to love the marrow tyler moore show

[crossgirl]

and marrowed with children!

[emkay]

Oooh, that reminds me of the hilarious marriage scene in The Princess Bride! To paraphrase: Marrowage!

[padraig]

I expect Swamp Thing to hatch out of it any moment.

[Siouxie]

emkay, I was just thinking the same thing!!

LOL @ cg!!!

At first glance, that looked to me like a giant decomposing tongue. (Yes, Annie - too much Stephen King).

[CJrun]

=======================D

(Walter Marrow)

[pogo]

Marrows eat oats and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy.

[CJrun]

Annie used to send her gun dog down to the corner store to hold it up. :P

[pogo]

The road was a ribbon of moonlight of moonlight looping the purple marrow.

*offers extra credit to students who can site the reference*

[pogo]

*removes one 'of moonlight' - damn phone!*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yes, CJ. And I'd use the money to buy marrow-wanna.

[Siouxie]

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor???

Highwayman??

[Annie Where-but-here]

:P

[fivver]

And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—

Guin if the extra credit involves mutant veggies, no thanks.

[Allen at Division]

Kevin McCarthy: "They're already HERE!!!"

[pogo]

Right! - Highwayman - Tennyson.

[Siouxie]

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor???

Highwayman??

[Siouxie]

damn bot!!

*snork* @ Annie!!!

YAY! what did I win??? Teacher?? fivver's cheating!

[fivver]

Am not!

[Kevin McCarthy]

*snork* @ Allen at Division for referencing a classic.

[emkay]

Veggie...wanna feel my veggie?
Veggie...such a thrill my veggie
Veggie...wanna touch my veggie?
Veggie...it's too much my veggie!
Check it out my veggie, veggie.
Don't you doubt my veggie, veggie.
talkin' bout my veggie, veggie,
check it out my veggie

Every gardener wants to have a monster, monster marrow
to have the kind of veggie, always in demand
Hoeing in the mornings, go marrow go
Had a soggy summer, raindrops glow
You can best believe that, it’s a monster marrow
ready to break the record, better than the beetroot can

Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
Monster, monster marrow (monster marrow)
I've got to have a monster marrow
Monster, monster marrow
I've got to be a marrow! Ow....

[Dr. Bob]

pogo, pogo, pogo *sigh*
cite
–verb (used with object), cit·ed, cit·ing. 1. to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), esp. as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
2. to mention in support, proof, or confirmation; refer to as an example: He cited many instances of abuse of power.
3. to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
4. to call to mind; recall: citing my gratitude to him.
5. Military. to mention (a soldier, unit, etc.) in orders, as for gallantry.
6. to commend, as for outstanding service, hard work, or devotion to duty.
7. to summon or call; rouse to action.

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[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < LL citāre to summon before a church court; in L, to hurry, set in motion, summon before a court, freq. of ciére to move, set in motion]

—Related forms
cit·a·ble, cite·a·ble, adjective
citer, noun

[Spiny Norman]

Right! - Highwayman - Tennyson Noyes.

; ^ )

[Margaritaville]

Humongous Vegtable WalsoBAGNFARB.

[Siouxie]

Yep, Spiny. Alfred too ;-P

Ok...I googled it.

[Siouxie]

*tosses Marg an 'e' before Dr. B notices*

la la la

[Elon Weintraub]

Eeeek. Too big.

[ubetcha]

"Marrows eat oats and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy."

Posted by: pogo | 02:40 PM on September 5, 2008

Pogo, you get a suite on the geezer bus for that one!

[pogo]

ub - already got my lifetime bus pass.

Dr. Bob, that is just the sort of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put.

Say, what's that doctorate in, anyway?

[Pinky]

I am both impressed and dismayed that no one made a juvenile comment about the length of the cucumber in the story.

So . . . .

"Cucumbers can be so sensuous, don't you think?"

Reference anyone?

[Dr. Bob]

huh. I just read this on Wikipedia...
...botanically speaking, squash is a fruit (being the receptacle for the plant's seeds), and not a vegetable.

[Jacki]

We are hosting a German exchange student who informed me yesterday that apparently there is a German word pronouced the same way we pronouce pepperoni. Per her explanation, this word refers to "a big vegetable" and she has spent the last two months wondering why we would eat said big vegetable on pizza. Of course now I have an insatiable need to see of a picture of what she is referring to. Anyone speak German?

[Lairbo]

Monster Marrow Mash (with apologies to no one)

I was working in the garden, late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my marrow from its soil began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise

It did the mash

It did the marrow mash
The marrow mash
It was a garden smash
It did the mash
It caught on in a flash
It did the mash
It did the marrow mash

[repeat chorus]

ps: Pogo, I have it on good authority that a kid'll eaty ivy, too (wouldn't you?)/

[Dr. Bob]

Animal House
"People are senuous, vegetables are sensual."

[Siouxie]

*sits and waits for Dr. B the esmart people to answer* ;-P

[Margaritaville]

*thanks Siouxie for correcting my embarassing faux paw*
I so know how to spell vegetable. And faux pas.

[Jacki]

Pinky,

Apparently Al Qaeda thinks so too

[pogo]

You are correct, Lairbo. Take a seat on the bus.

And what ever happened to my rutabaga twist?

[Spiny Norman]

Linky to the UK Telegraph article with a picture of the offending vegetable fruit. The woman picking (probably equally offensive) tomatoes appears to be hiding from the ::ahem:: "sensual" cucumbers...

[Siouxie]

Good job, Lairbo!!

[Biggin]

Damn! I saw that story but didn't send it in because I figured nobody knew what a marrow is!

* Mentally noting to always send in stories *

[Allen at Division]

This is right out of "The Vegina Monologues"...

[gjmokcb]

I'm rather more taken by the World Record Cucumber. A trip down memory lane, as it were.

[gjmokcb]

Stick a cigarette in its gnarly self and name it Edward R.

[klezmerphan]

I think "Monster Marrow" is either a good name for a p0rn film, or a p0rn actor...

(must just be me)

[Suzy Q]

Marrow him? I hardly know him!

[Siouxie, starting to hunker down]

*snork* @ Suz!

[frodolives]

"After all, to-marrow IS a new day!!!"

[Ednausean]

THAT'S Michael Moorow Before the name change to Moore.

[Howard from Broward]

Jacki: I ordered a pepperoni pizza in Italy one time (i think it was Milan) and got a pie with a large pepperoncini-type pepper on it. Maybe that's what (s)he meant.

also:
"This monster vegetable now holds the new world record for the biggest ever marrow after weighing in at 65 kilos (113lbs)."

I may not know marrow, but i know that 65kilos is 143 lbs.

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[Siouxie, hsylst wexxt tuyte]

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