#80903
09/17/2002 1:14 PM
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The turning of the leaves...'tis the season!  Where do the colors come from? Produced by photosynthesis, chlorophyll gives leaves a green color. There is also another pigment in leaves: carotenoids. Carotenoids are yellow and orange pigments. During the summer months photosynthesis produces so much chlorophyll that the leaves stay green. When Fall approaches, the days are cooler and shorter and photosynthesis stops, and no more chlorophyll is produced. With no green to be seen, the colors that have been there all along, the carotenoids, become apparent. Some trees with a lot of orange and yellow in their leaves are the sugar and black maples, the aspen of the Rockies, the hickory, and the ginkgo. The bright red and purple colors of fall come from a pigment called anthocyanin. This pigment is also found in plants like apples, beets and grapes. Sugar, produced in the leaves, is usually transported to other parts of the tree to be used for growth. In the Fall, cool nights prevent the sugary sap from being transported out of the leaf. The sugar is trapped in the leaf. Because there is so much sugar, it reacts with certain proteins found in the cell sap to form anthocyanins. When this happens, the leaves turn the beautiful, bright colors. The red maple, the dogwood, the tupelo, and the sumac all have autumn leaves that vary from red to purple. What makes a colorful Fall? Fall coloration is dependent on three things: amount of sunlight, temperature and amount of water during the fall season. The temperature during the time the chlorophyll production lessens is very important. Basically dry, sunny days with cool but not freezing nighttime temperatures are the most conducive to spectacular leaf color. During the warm days, the leaf can produce a lot of sugar. During the cool nights, the sugars are trapped in the leaves and eventually produce the colors of autumn. Late springs, dry summers or a very warm spell in fall will reduce fall coloration. When frost comes early, the colorful display may not occur at a
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#80904
09/17/2002 1:21 PM
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... trees with a lot of orange and yellow in their leaves are... the aspen of the Rockies
The aspen can glow yellow when back lit. My favorite black and white photo of fall colors was printed in the Arizona Daily Sun, the newspaper of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona. Most of the native trees around Flagstaff are ponderosa pines, but, up the sides of the San Francisco peaks, just below the tree line, there are aspens and in fall they are golden.
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#80905
09/17/2002 1:35 PM
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I wish I could still hear Edith Piaf......
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#80906
09/21/2002 5:44 PM
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I wish I could still hear Edith Piaf
Dear wwh: I wondered why the colors of autumn (gold and red) brought Edith Piaf back so vividly for you. I searched her biography and found nothing that would offer a clue [except perhaps her signature song "Vie en rose"]. Did you know that "Edith Piaf" was her stage name and derives from the nickname, "the Little Sparrow", given to her by the Club Owner who discovered her? "Piaf", as I have discovered, is french for "sparrow". She must have been a tiny, waif of a person because I came across a description of the walk-up Museum/Apartment maintained in her honor in Paris which contains "tiny black dresses" - presumably, dresses once worn by "the Little Sparrow" herself.
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#80907
09/21/2002 7:49 PM
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I wish I could still hear Edith Piaf...
Personally, I'm extremely glad that I can't ... the throttled spug grates on my nerves ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#80908
09/21/2002 8:31 PM
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". Edith Piaf: 30th Anniversaire Edith
Piaf. ... Les Amants d'un Jour. 20. Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes). 21. Dans Les Prisons
de Nantes. 22. ...
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#80909
09/21/2002 8:39 PM
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I understand throttled. And grates. And nerves.
But what's this "spug"?
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#80910
09/21/2002 9:30 PM
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I understand "throttled" but .... what's this "spug"?
I'm sure Capital Kiwi was thinking of the mottled sprug-eater, a sparrow native to New Zealand which subsists mainly on the sprug found on masticating sheep. I'm sure he intended no offence to the memory of "the Little Sparrow" or those of us who fondly remember her.
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#80911
09/21/2002 9:43 PM
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- SPUG (Seattle Perl
Users Group
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#80912
09/21/2002 9:47 PM
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I just googled "mottled sprug-eater" and came up with nada.
Are you pulling our legs, wm?
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#80913
09/21/2002 10:24 PM
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I still like 'pillock', 'bollocks', 'cobblers', 'hairy ring piece', 'spug', 'dreck' (and 'drokk' from
Judge Dredd), 'burk' (sp?) , 'poopnoddy', 'ninnyhammer', 'Edmund', and of course 'Pacino' (as
in 'Did you see dat chick? What a Pacino on her!)
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#80914
09/23/2002 12:55 PM
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'burk' (sp?)Not as widely used as was once the case, but berk as in "Berkshire Hunt". A lot more offensive than many users realised.  For more on Cockney Rhyming Slang, have a butcher's at this, me old china: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/articles/cockney-rhyming-slang.htmIt's the dog's.  P.S. "Throttled spug" 
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#80915
09/23/2002 1:26 PM
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Dear fishonabike: I deny any relationship to the "Berkshire Hunts". I don't even have
any idea why they are objectionable.
I found a site with British slang. Based on same reason we don't use "Michael".
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#80916
09/23/2002 3:26 PM
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from shona's site:"I haven't heard a dicky bird about it" (dickie bird = word) So AWAD could be "A Dickie Bird A Day"?
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#80917
09/23/2002 7:20 PM
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That could provide an appropriate acronym for the commercial-free paid subscription.
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#80918
09/23/2002 7:38 PM
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#80919
09/23/2002 8:35 PM
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As Wordminstrel pointed out, "spug" = "sparrow". Any salacious meaning is simply a figment of a demented American moral majoristic minute mind bent on banning more books.
And I did intend to malign Edith Piaf ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#80920
09/23/2002 8:56 PM
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And I did intend to malign Edith Piaf ...
You may have intended to malign the dear departed Edith Piaf, Capital Kiwi, but I, for one, was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Frankly, I credited you with more tact, if not with more taste.
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