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#68710 05/03/2002 11:54 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Well, it seems that a carpel is also the female part of a flower...kinda puts a whole new slant on Carpal Tunnel, doesn't it? (seeing-as-how-the-Gutter Police-are-away-on-vacation-e)

My memory was jogged back to this piece of long-forgotten high school Biology 101 flora datum by this article about Archaefructus sinensis, the just-discovered 125 million year old ancestor of all flowering plants (fossil found in China):
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-first-flower0502may02.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

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#68711 05/04/2002 12:03 AM
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Add million, Max! It was there, didn't you see it ...thanks for the subtle hint!

But I notice you sidestepped the much more (ahem) important matter here about the nomenclature of the Board.

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Yeah, Max. We wo'n tell him that carpel only sounds like carpal. Right?


#68714 05/04/2002 12:28 AM
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Yeah, Max. We wo'n tell him that carpel only sounds like carpal. Right?

tomato/tomahto



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You mean:
Tomato/Tomayto


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Nope, he meant:

Tomayto/Tomato


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No, he meant to stir it up, and succeeded!



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Tomayto/Tomato

Actually® it's Duhmayduh/termater



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