OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

[J. Landman Gay]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> Andre-
> 
> Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 1:45:57 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Now, if I understand correctly from my small  english language experience,
>> you name fruits like this:
> 
>> if it is really small or has little seeds all over it, then, it is named
>> somethingberry
> 
> I find it quite disturbing to find that botanically there are two
> types of non-stone fruit: drupes and berries; and that most things
> that are commonly named berries in English (blackberries,
> strawberries, etc.) are actually drupes, while the class of berries
> includes such things as avocados and pumpkins, which I never think of
> as berries. Basically, in English almost any fruit with the word
> "berry" in it is not a berry, but a drupe. And almost all other fruit
> is a berry.
> 

Ergo, seedy programmers who write for the web are drupals.

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