Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

[João Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>]

Em 04-03-2013 09:48, albcares escreveu:
> that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an
> acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was
> actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This
> is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass.
> (sorry for my basic language)

Are you making this up now or this tale really exists in other countries 
than Brazil? Here this story is told by writer Monteiro Lobato, it is 
called "The world reformer".

> 2013/3/4, Darac Marjal<mailinglist@darac.org.uk>:
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:55PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
> > > There is a tale in my country about an arrogant man that considered
> > > absurd
> > > that a pumpkin, being a large fruit, comes from a short plant, and the
> > > blackberry [1] comes from a tall tree although it is a tiny fruit. He
> > > kept
> > > thinking like this until he fell asleep under a blackberry tree and was
> > > awaken by a blackberry hitting his nose.
> > Just for the record, I would consider "cherry" to be a better
> > replacement than "blackberry" here. The Blackberry grows on a trailing
> > bush with thorny tendrils. Although its fruit is small, it's unlikely
> > anyone would sleep under one. A cherry, on the other hand, grows on a
> > full-sized tree under which someone could conceivably sleep. In
> > addition, the stone in the cherry would give added impact when falling
> > one someone's nose :*)

Yes, of course a cherry would be much better. No one would sleep under a 
blackberry tree also because the fallen fruit on the ground can stain 
the clothes.