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Here's a gardening theme.. remember after the jokes for the riddles -- that theme..

Why do potatoes make good detectives?
Because they keep their eyes peeled.

What do you get if you divide the circumference
of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid
and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United
States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-   George Bush, U.S. President, 1990

What do you call a stolen yam?
A hot potato.

Have you heard of the garlic diet?
You don't lose much weight, but from a distance
your friends think you look thinner.

What do you get if you cross a four leaf clover with poison ivy?
A rash of good luck.

A man walks into a flower shop "I'd like some flowers please."
"Certainly, Sir. What did you have in mind?"
He shrugs "Well I'm not sure, I uh, I uh, I uh..."
"Perhaps I could help.  . . What exactly have you done?"

Where did the vegetables go to have a few drinks?
The Salad Bar.

Everyone has these on their face?
Tulips.

What vegetable do you need a plumber for?
A Leek.

What runs but never gets tired?
Water.

That one sounds familiar.  :happyroll:

 ::)  :rotflblue:

I especially like the Bush quip. ;D


1) watering hole

2) eyes

3) leek

4) my toilet ;D

Ah Brigid, creative as ever I see! :D

#3 is spot on, the rest are creatively correct!   :rotfl:

I'd rather be creative than not and only correct. ;)

Actually, being creative is a gift from Him so it is my duty to use it. Right? ;D

For sure! You score more points this way than the other!  :D

We have Politically Correct
and now we have Creatively Correct.

Are you sure you both aren't pulling this out of the air?
I'll have to have a talk with Patricia to see if this is acceptable.  :D

 :happyroll:

But Martin, isn't pulling something out of the air being creative? ??? ;D

Is that not called Magic?  :D

But I don't equate rabbits with creativity (although Patricia might ;D ).

If you can get Patricia on your side by talking rabbit, then I'll consider that cheating.  ;D

 :happyroll:

:rotfl: :rotflblue: :rotfl:

1.  to a salad bar???

2.  tulips???  (two lips)

4.   -- total blank, except for garden fence or garden path that runs around/through the garden, or maybe strawberry runners?????

Is the last one a Road? (runs through the town or country)  ???

Hmm, Martin, I thought you were against 'creative' answers!  :D

You got #1 and #2! :D Good show! A green thumbs up!  :thumbsup:

give us a hint???? ???

Well, I was thinking #3 might give away #4.

And I'd think someone who'd like green might get #3. Or someone Welsh. :D

I can always supply hints! The more obscure the better! Don't be afraid to ask!  :D

well, leeks was already given for #3, but it doesn't seem to help!!!! 

do we go from the running end or the tired end?  hint away!

Oh it was? Leeks is #3!  :D

Ah, I see! Well, with a hint like leeks, how a person couldn't get #4 .. perhaps trying to hard? #4 is very simple and basic! :D

the garden hose then?????????

Oh dear, that's almost it, you've practically got it, you know it but you haven't said it.. the temptation to just say it is very strong for me. :D

Well, you know who's sitting on your shoulder providing that temptation! :angryred:

 :confuzed: :toocrying:  i need a pulling-out-hair-in-frustration smilie now!

Brigid -- help!  save us both from temptation!

I won't help but ;):

Hail Mary .........

There once was a green house. Inside this green house, there was a white house. Inside this white house was a red house... and inside this red house were lots of babies. What was this house?

A watermelon.

Perhaps this riddle will help! :D

It's a toughie, but it's on the theme!

I plead a purple thumb! ::) I do realize that the green house must be the clear house the holds plants.?

a watermelon?

Correct! :D

Congratulations! You certainly got that fast!

but   but   but

i still don't get the other one

um, water runs - watermelon -  tired melons - run......

nope

nothing

Is that it? Water?

Have a glass!  :D

Ohhh ......... ;D


Well, actually Rachel deserves the "credit" for that one.

 :teapot:   silly me.  congrats, brigid!    :D

i don't get any credit -- i wasn't seeing the trees for the forest in the way.  sigh.

Well, without your comment I wouldn't have had the smallest chance!

we are a team!  yay! 

we are ready for you, shin!  try your hardest!

and -- is shin your real name?  with how my shinsplints were hurting so, i almost couldn't like you at first.   :-[

No, it's just something I picked up when I was studying Japanese and fell into the habit of using everywhere. Now, everybody just thinks of me as a pain in the shin because I always tell people about the harder things in life, so it's just about perfect! :D

I have the perfectly ordinary first name of Jeffrey which my mother's good looking friend suggested to her, and she picked instead of David or Gregory. :D

lol

my maiden name was Jeffries, and people always insisted I had a brother Jeffrey, but I only had Christian, Scott, and Daniel, and sister Nicki (Nicolette)

what does 'shin' mean in japanese?  is it a name or something else that you relate to?  just wondering.  my nephew Kevin is very good at picking up languages -- he speaks chinese very well -- he spent a month there last year -- i learned a bit of german, but no other languages, except how to sing 'head-shoulders-knees-and-toes' in japanese, although i had a korean aunt who taught us how to count to 10 in korean when we were little.

All good names! :D

I used to listen to German opera but I never picked up any of it truly, you did not need to know the language to appreciate it. :D

A friend of mine learned Chinese and Japanese, I was impressed with his skill with languages! Mine is poorer than I liked, I picked up less than I thought I would. I've taken courses in Latin, French, and Japanese, and done very poorly with all of them. :D

I just looked it up (I forgot the meanings) and read that Shin can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

    * ?, "true"
    * ?, "extend"
    * ?, "new"
    * ?, "heart"
    * ?, "belief"
    * ?, "progress"
    * ?, "humility"
    * ?, "advance"
    * ?, "gentleman"

If you can read the above you can see there are many different characters for the same sounding word, but with different meanings. Japanese like Chinese is a language full of different symbols to represent words, unlike our 26 character alphabet, it has tens of thousands of characters.

I just picked it up because I liked the sound of it, more than the meaning though I recall I was looking up characters that represented 'belief' and 'faith' and 'heart'.

So you can see if you want to learn to write in the language it is tougher than other languages. So mostly I just studied spoken Japanese, though I made a few attempts to do more that fell largely flat.

I really think that Asia and many other countries need to hear the quotes of the saints in their languages. :D

I appreciate the Japanese family traditions of respect, hard work, discipline, education, etc. America had some good influence on them and some bad after we took over and reformed their government. My grandfather fought in the war against the Japanese, he was on an island in the Philippines shortly before the end.

Some of the forum members like to make up haiku. :D They're all incipient poet laureates!

Looks like the characters won't post. C'est la vie! :D

aw, i guess i can google it later -- i wonder how their computer keyboards look if they have so many characters on them    :boggles:

Oh they have several other shorter alphabets so to speak, that they combine with the others, that are sound only based..

They still type out the main alphabet, but what they do is they type the sound of it first, then get a drop-down list of choices as the computer guesses what they want, and they choose from that.

Had a Korean friend in school when I was a boy, he was a straight A student. Those Asian parents keep those children hard at work! Though he didn't have quite as terrible the threats behind it as he did in the old country.

that is so interesting -- i live in the same small town i was brought up in (same church i was baptized, received 1st confession and 1st Holy Communion in, confirmed and married there too) and really don't get to see many different types of people -- even those of different heritage are 'Americanized' before they come to my town and i know so little of the world -- i find it interesting lately.

Going by all the meanings of Shin, it looks like you'll get all the variety you could ever want right here! :D

Shin -- I think you are a true gentleman to extend and advance our humility and belief and to help us progress toward a new heart!

That's true (and a funny way of putting it :rotflblue: !

he picked the right name, then!

Please.  :D Don't be so kind!  ;D

you inspire kindness.