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Rhuby:

I've been acorn to follow up on this to tell you about some of the nuts in my family. One of my favorites is living on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where he makes his lving collecting shells. A true beachnut.

There's one who is a bit of a black sheep, spending all of his time chasing women. He's our Macadamia nut, of course. Other family members, cognizant of his penchant for big boobs, refer to him as a chestnut. Due to my penchant for building furniture, I'm of course thought of in some branches of the family as a pine nut.

Then there's Gesundheit, so called because he's a cashew. My distant cousin is into personal data devices, so he's often referred to as a palm nut, though there are some in our family who think he's called that because of a certain penchant for autoeroticism (which is NOT getting it on in the back seat of the car.)

My great uncle is a noted entomologist, but since many in our family can't spell that we just think of him as our betel nut. His wife only works on wick ends, so we call her our candlenut.

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aw, nuts!

I'm all shelled out over this one... and I think there are no stones left unturned...



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Dear TEd: Was there never a Mannekin Pis in your family? A little peanut?


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I've seen beans jump, though.

I've only seen runner beans. Maybe they were practicing?


They were a bit green, come to think of it.


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don't forget the human beans...



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ĦAh, si! I too have seen the frijoles jump.


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I've seen beans jump, though.

I've only seen runner beans. Maybe they were practicing?


Maybe they suffer, as did the cook in my Dad's Sarf-Lunnon caff, from "haricot veins"


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you could be vericlose with that one, Rhub...



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don't forget the human beans...

Would that be a half-baked association, eta?


For more on "human beans", I'd recommend reference to Roald Dahl's Big Friendly Giant (BFG). Especially if you have kids.




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You are a gem of a parent, TEd, and your "children" seem to be real pearls. I take a more jaded approach, myself. Maybe I get a little too flinty at times -- or my voice is too gravely -- but my stones tend to be a little petrified of me. Maybe we're just from different social strata than you and yours. It occurs to me azurite, that you have probably taken quite a lichen to your rocks.

We do have some guys who have pretty interesting stories, though. Our copper is a state trooper. Opal, Ruby and Amethyst are milked for they're worth at the local lapidary. Sodalite is a diet soft drink entrepreneur; people drink his beverage by the quartz. Some of our A-fossils went to the local ba silica to study the prophets Mica and Malachite. They also enjoy the coral music there.

Well, I guess I'd better stop geoding you before you're ready to bauxite my ears. But if you accuse me of hounding you or picking a fight, I will have an instant lapis of memory.





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