ASTEROID MEASUREMENT-UNIT UPDATE

Asteroid the size of 48 eggplants to pass Earth Tuesday

(Thanks to Dave Vander Ark)

Comments

[Jim]

There must be a glitch in the AI algorithm that generates these random asteroid measurement units. My only question is whether a consenting eggplant was involved.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Didn't 48 Eggplants open for Captain Beefheart?

[wiredog]

48 Eggplants was the lesser known follow up single to 96 Tears.

[Elaine Benes]

Don't "eggplants" vary in size due to a host of variables?

[george gillson]

Few people realize that the eggplant is the national fruit of Israel, from whence this article originated.

[wanderer2575]

How many bunches of kale is that?

[LeDud]

How many eggplants in size until it destroys all life on earth?

[J. Michael Hammond]

At the risk of becoming a one-note-Johnny here, I just want to provide the public service announcement that an object approximately eggplant-shaped that is 48 eggplants long is actually over 110,000 eggplants in volume. You could throw a bundle of 48 eggplants at Earth at meteoric speed and they would burn up in the atmosphere.

[man tom]

While at the grocery store a few nights ago I had to wait for elderly woman and her husband to fill a couple of produce bags with some pear-shaped pale green giant avocado looking things. I stood from a distance and had no idea what the cosmic-looking vegetables were. She bagged up probably 15 or more while I waited. Two heaping plastic bags full. All the time I watched her I was thinking, 'those must really be good, the couple obviously came to the store to buy whatever they were." So she gathered her many pounds and they pushed their cart away. Now it was my turn, so I went to the spot they vacated and saw the couple had made off with enough 'Mexican Gray Squash' to create enough gas to cause a huge geriatric explosion capable of rising far up into the atmosphere. I had never heard of 'Mexican Gray Squash'. Well, to make a longer story short, those squash were displayed right above the lower bin holding the Hallucinogenic Green Beans I wanted.

*I am thinking Mexican Gray Squash may be a product of Mexico.

[Lucky Jack]

Obviously the trail of green poop was left to distinguish theirs from the other colors clogging the streets.
They must be saved!

[Pullet Surprise]

Which came first? This chicken plant or the eggplant?

[Mad Hatter]

@J. Michael Hammond - Nice to see someone raising our collective intellectual bar! Come back soon!

[cfjk]

On its' way to Uranus?

[Florida Man]

I still remember the good ol' days when eggplants were measured in bushels, not in asteroids.