Today I'll inform you all on how to pick a ripe melon. First, it should smell sweet, and there shouldn't be any stem stub left on the melon; there should have been a clean break. If the melon is picked too soon, before it falls away from the vine, it will not get any sweeter, no matter how soft it gets. This is because the plant provides it with all of the sugars it will ever have, so the longer its attached, the sweeter it will be. Other features of ripe melons are the slight soft spots on the ends of the melon, particularly at the end opposite from where the stem was. You should also hear a sloshing sound when you shake them, indicating that the seeds are loose. If your choosing a cantalope, make sure the net like patterns don't rub off easily as well.
Posted by Jay at November 23, 2003 11:15 PMJay,
I'll never be able to repay you for these priceless tips on how to select the proper melon. I feel so confident with my newfound knowledge, that I'm tempted to go melon shopping right now just to squeeze them and scream, "DAMN...THIS IS THE MOST PEFECT PAIR OF MELONS I'VE EVER GRASPED" throughout Shop Rite!
Many Thanks,
Kate R. Campbell
kate, i aim to please. i wanted to balance random facts with practicle knowledge. i'm glad you like it : )
Posted by: Jay at November 24, 2003 08:34 AMKate,
You're one sick bastard. If I see you in Shop Rite screaming something about melons I'll probably walk up and beat you senseless with a long, wide cucumber. Mmm, cucumber...
Pleasurably yours,
Stephanie Ann Love
Posted by: Steph at November 24, 2003 12:17 PMPS. I wish your middle name was Frances or Fiona only so your initials could be KFC, because that would just be funny.
Maybe not to everyone, but we all know that I have an odd sense of humor.
Posted by: Steph at November 24, 2003 12:18 PMI've wished the same thing ever since I was introduced to the finger lickin' goodness of KFC's chicken. You don't even know...
Well wait, yes you do.
Posted by: Kate at November 24, 2003 07:24 PMSo i herd that i was missed in here, so i desided to grace you guys with my mind as i always do. Just because i talked to one of you guys on AIM does NOT mean that my views of all of you have changed. To tell you the truth they are still the same. You basically called me stupip, dumb, a redneck, and so on. Because of that you will NEVER here the end of me. Trust me one of the many rules that go along with me is you dont fuck with me and get away with it. Another one is u dont fuck with my family and get away with it. Well guess what u did both. So always remember you will NEVER here the end from me. Until next time *which WILL be soon* have a lovely time!!!
Posted by: angel at November 24, 2003 10:21 PMJay thanks as always for the info. You are awesome :)
-Becky
Posted by: Becky at November 24, 2003 11:53 PMBut I think we are getting away with it, because you seem to lack the reason enough to realize that we could really care less what you say on here. Words are just that, words. And if we let them get to us, well then, we'd end up just like you now wouldn't we.
And that would be an awfully sad thing.
Posted by: Steph at November 25, 2003 12:58 PMOK...this makes no sense whatsoever. these people act as if we have seen them, know them well and continue to insult them and their families. i could be working with angel for all i know, or meet her 10 years from now, and never know the difference. i mean give me a break if you mess with me or my family. i mean they act as if we went to their houses and threw rocks at the windows. or spray painted on their cars you are a bunch of stupid rednecks. we said meaningless shit about a bunch of people we have never even seen, and i pray to god never have to see if this is how retarded they are. once again steph, kate and whoever else is continuing this war, my comment is simple, the one i already made...why keep having a battle of wits with a bunch of unarmed people. its just not right and its not fair. i mean its like fighting with someone who has a knife and you have a gun. you just shouldnt do it. so i'm done. i hope the rest of you are. because they are too idiotic to put an end to it, and realize they have made your original point loud and clear steph. so maybe its time we be the good people we know we are and put these morons and their dumb comments and arguments out of its misery.
Posted by: Angela at November 25, 2003 09:50 PMYea really, I mean this is all stupid, we could work with you, I could be sitting outside your home right now typing this on my laptop, I could be in the same schools, or driving next to you on the street, but if you do have a gun, LOL! It better be a good shot, because we don't stop for anything. As for us having a knife or whatever, it really doesn't matter because we are stronger than whatever you could possibly have anyway. Fear nothing, and have a blast with what we do.
Posted by: Muahahahaha at November 26, 2003 01:06 AMI would never threaten anyone with a gun. It was a COMPARISON. Check it again, you will get it, i hope! Of course you will. Your not an idiot. Your right about everything. I'm wrong. Don't hate me!!!
Posted by: Angela at November 26, 2003 09:06 AMI never knew anyone that was stronger than a gun, or one of those missle shooter gun thingys that they use in the military. That's just silly. You'd have to be undead to withstand such weapons of mass destruction.
Knives and guns and rocket launchers, oh my! Our online war has gone all "Star Wars Defense" suddenly. Regan did a good job with that. Kudos to you for allowing the US to once again be the kick ass country it always was (even though we SOO deserved 9/11).
And OMG, you're right! We DID go to the same school! We had 5th period gym back in 10th grade...in 1997! Wow. It's been so damned long since then, I hardly even recognized you. Good to see you, you haven't changed ONE BIT! You're still the same old sophomore.
Yeah, so like I've got homework to get done on the socioeconomic status of minority subcultures, but it was SO nice catching up with you. Hope we can do it again real soon.
Toodles!
Posted by: Steph at November 26, 2003 11:27 AMLets change Kate's middle name to FUCKER so her initials can be KFC. Yeah thats cool.
Thanksgivings a day away,
Chaunce Niobe Rodriguez
Posted by: Chaunce Rodriguez at November 26, 2003 12:37 PMI'd gladly take Fucker over Niobe as a middle name any day. :P'
Posted by: Kate at November 26, 2003 01:18 PMPoor Jay, gettin his blog invaded. Look on the bright side Jay, people are actually coming here on a daily basis!
Posted by: Kate at November 26, 2003 01:19 PMNow, if he posted every day, I'd stop calling it "Plant Fact of Whenever"
Posted by: John at November 26, 2003 02:19 PM...i hate you all
but yeah, if this is what it takes to tell people about plant facts, then its cool. even if you are all a bunch of retards : )
whoa, John and Jay posted within the same minute (02:19 PM)!!! I smell a plant fact of the day conspiracy!!!
Posted by: Chaunce Rodriguez at November 26, 2003 02:57 PMYou mean "Plant Fact of Once in a Great While"?
Cuz I kinda got confused with that whole "Plant Fact of the Day" thing. Also, I didn't know it had anything to do with plant facts, I thought it was a battlefield. Although, we pushed them out of every other part of NRD, they had to claim SOMETHING for their own, and this appears to be the weakest part since it is rarely updated and modified.
See Jay, you brought this on yourself.
Posted by: Steph at November 26, 2003 07:56 PMhey, john insisted on naming this plant fact of the day, when he knows how lazy i am. so its acutally john's fault.
Posted by: Jay at November 26, 2003 10:37 PMLove is a battlefield.
Posted by: John at November 27, 2003 11:54 PM"I never knew anyone that was stronger than a gun, or one of those missle shooter gun thingys that they use in the military. That's just silly. You'd have to be undead to withstand such weapons of mass destruction."
Believe it baby! Maybe we are undead!
"And OMG, you're right! We DID go to the same school! We had 5th period gym back in 10th grade...in 1997! Wow. It's been so damned long since then, I hardly even recognized you. Good to see you, you haven't changed ONE BIT! You're still the same old sophomore."
Sorry must not have been you, I graduated in 1996
"Yeah, so like I've got homework to get done on the socioeconomic status of minority subcultures, but it was SO nice catching up with you. Hope we can do it again real soon."
I've got homework to do on trying to sleep at night!!
John, I didn't know you liked Pat Benetar.
But seriously, love really IS a battlefield.
And its not about who lost and won, its how you play the game.
Also, make love not war.
Oh, and no boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.
*Insert Random Cliched Phrase Here*
Posted by: Steph at November 29, 2003 12:25 AMI'm still here under the moon
I'm still here under the moon
I was just a child but you seemed like so much more
The way you would avenge me and drift across the floor
I'd see you in the hall, and you'd kiss me with a smile
I never understood it, was I even worth your while?
The others kids at school, they would hate me and they'd spit
Cause I was just a no one, to them I wasn't shit
But you would always help me and stand there by my side
We were only seventeen, we'd be together till we died
But then it all happened on the ever dreadful day
Somebody tried to rape you, and now I'll make him pay
You pointed him out to me, my thoughts began to race
I took my daddy's forty-five and shot him in the fucking face!!!
I did it all for you, and though I'm facing years
I would do the time just to equal all your tears
The last thing that you told me when I left the courtroom
Is that we'd always be together, cause we're both under the moon
I'll forever love you, even if you're doomed
We'll always be together cause we're both under the moon
I sit here in my cell and the walls are made of stone
I justified your pain, but now I sit alone
I write another letter, I write one every day
I never got a letter back, I write them anyway
I try to call collect, your number has been changed
I'm staring at the lightbulb, and I start to feel deranged
You never came to visit me, I sit facing the glass
No one's on the other side, now it's in the past
My head is always spinning, I'm pounding at the wall
I feel like I'm forgotten, no sign of you at all
You're probably getting married, you're probably getting fucked
I'll break out of this cage and try to cut that motherfucker up
I curl up in the corner, my body will corrode
My teeth are turning into dust, skin is growing mold
I'm staring at the window of my eternal doom
I know that you are out there, somewhere underneath the moon
Even though I have to go to a website to find the neat plant fact of the day, it's still worth it dammit. But there are some plants out there who are theives. Jay, please notify the police if you know these plants who steal water. I watered my moms plants the other day, and the water disappeared. The plant refused to tell me where it took the water, and the cops are baffeled by this whole situation. So, for the love of humanity, tell me where they are taking the water captive and I shall reward you with treasure and pleasure. Signed - Anonymous
Posted by: Nelson at December 1, 2003 10:17 AMDisregard that Nelson posted the last one. It was an anonymous person I swear. Or perhaps a person who is incognito! Great word. Knowledge is everything!
Posted by: Not Nelson at December 1, 2003 10:26 AMJay, I believe you need to post a new plant fact. The natives appear to be getting restless...
Posted by: Steph at December 1, 2003 12:04 PMJay, get out of Wood's Hole, and do a new plant fact damnit!
Posted by: Kate at January 1, 2004 11:54 AMi wont be back until march, but ill have some cool experiences to share on here as well as some new awsome plant facts...youll just have to hold on
Posted by: jay at January 20, 2004 01:11 PMwow. I never knew plats were interesting. I now know ow to find the best melons. I think I'll be going to shop rite and screaming what Kate said. KFC.... thats good.
Posted by: Lief, Viking-guy at January 30, 2004 10:32 PMmy brother jay is faget. he is a unbelievable dendrofeliac, meaning he loves the tree up the butt, for all you collage prepies out there
$Kurt$Kelsey$
Posted by: little jay at March 25, 2004 05:10 PM"Faggot", "how", "college", "preppies".
It had to be done.
Posted by: The Grammar/Spelling Police at April 17, 2004 12:33 AMAlso, "plants".
Posted by: The Grammar/Spelling Police at April 17, 2004 12:34 AM