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  • A AspDotNetDev

    I will try to answer without googling... 1) Boxing? Chess? Judge scored "sports" in which the score is subjective and only revealed at the end? 2) Political progress? A glacier? 3) Asparagus. Broccoli. 4) Strawberry. 5) Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in. 6) Dwarf. Dwindle. Dweeb? 7) Yep, the iPhone I'm using now has a bunch. 8) Iceberg lettuce. 9) Socks. Silk. Shoes. Slippers. Sandals. Suede, Sesame Oil, Scabs, Scars, Snow Shoes, Suiture. Or, did I only have to list an initial item starting with the letter "S"? ;P

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    AspDotNetDev wrote:

    I will try to answer without googling...

    I am impressed.

    The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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      jschell wrote:

      I suspect that depends on culture and definition.

      The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use :confused:

      The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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      Well, stap me vitals! Canned pickled lettuce[^] - and more!

      The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H

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        Answers, courtesy of Google Boxing. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute. Asparagus and rhubarb. Baseball. Strawberry. The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner. Lettuce. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.

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        Slacker007 wrote:

        skis

        Which naturally leads to "snowboard", "skateboard" (arguable), and "skates". :)

        Martin Fowler wrote:

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          Well, stap me vitals! Canned pickled lettuce[^] - and more!

          The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H

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          You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))

          The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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            You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))

            The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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            I'd have punted for watermelon. Never seen that anything but fresh. So, of course, someone's going to post a link to prove me wrong. Peter

            Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.

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            • O Oakman

              You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))

              The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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              It surprised me. I Googled "Tinned Lettuce" (Edward Gorey fan); and there it was.

              The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H

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              • O Oakman

                jschell wrote:

                I suspect that depends on culture and definition.

                The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use :confused:

                The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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                jschell
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                Oakman wrote:

                The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use

                Has a reference to cooking it though.

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                • P Peter_in_2780

                  I'd have punted for watermelon. Never seen that anything but fresh. So, of course, someone's going to post a link to prove me wrong. Peter

                  Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.

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                  Peter_in_2780 wrote:

                  I'd have punted for watermelon.

                  Pickled watermelon and watermelon rind.

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                  • A AspDotNetDev

                    I will try to answer without googling... 1) Boxing? Chess? Judge scored "sports" in which the score is subjective and only revealed at the end? 2) Political progress? A glacier? 3) Asparagus. Broccoli. 4) Strawberry. 5) Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in. 6) Dwarf. Dwindle. Dweeb? 7) Yep, the iPhone I'm using now has a bunch. 8) Iceberg lettuce. 9) Socks. Silk. Shoes. Slippers. Sandals. Suede, Sesame Oil, Scabs, Scars, Snow Shoes, Suiture. Or, did I only have to list an initial item starting with the letter "S"? ;P

                    Martin Fowler wrote:

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                    AspDotNetDev wrote:

                    1. Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in.

                    Pretty sure that isn't going to work. You could probably get to to be sucked in but it would be destroyed in the process.

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                    • J jschell

                      AspDotNetDev wrote:

                      1. Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in.

                      Pretty sure that isn't going to work. You could probably get to to be sucked in but it would be destroyed in the process.

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                      AspDotNetDev
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                      Yeah, probably not. It was all I could think of at the time though.

                      Martin Fowler wrote:

                      Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

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