Schrödinger's Kitten: The Fruit Is A Lie

Back in the Middle Ages in England ‘apple’ used to be a catch-all word for any fruit. Hence when oranges first appeared, they were sometimes known as ‘golden apples’ (and are still called Chinese apples in Dutch and German). Why not ‘orange apples’? Um, because the colour orange (first recorded use 1542) derives from the fruit, rather than the other way round. What did the English call orange things before that? Geoluhread (yellow-red), naturally. Not that there was much use for the word since at that point most things were brown and muddy most of the time, as far as I can tell. However, back then, before centuries of patriotic Dutch inbreeding, even recently-washed carrots were purple or yellow. True.

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Probably only interesting to botany geeks...

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The Original Generation X, 1954-63 - Brainiac - The Boston Globe

1958: Grandmaster Flash, Ellen DeGeneres, Charlie Kaufman, Ice-T, Sharon Stone, Robert Kagan, Holly Hunter, D. Boon, Alec Baldwin, Andie MacDowell, Michelle Pfeiffer, David O. Russell, Rick Santorum, Drew Carey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Annette Bening, Prince, David Remnick, Rick Bass, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jello Biafra, Kevin Bacon, Mark Cuban, Bill Berry, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Jim Hogshire, Belinda Carlisle, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Burton, Michael Jackson, Thomas Dolby, Tim Robbins, Viggo Mortensen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlene Tilton, George Saunders, Nikki Sixx, Bebe Neuwirth. Elsewhere: Andy Gibb, Gary Numan, Wong Kar-wai, Gary Oldman, Simon Le Bon.

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Born the year I was.

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Julie & Julia Review by Dave White | Movies.com

Amy Adams is just fine and I'm not going to go around bashing her button-eyed wonderment, especially while she cooks up food I would like to eat. She does what she does and she does it well. For the purposes of this movie she's no Nigella Lawson, but she is the new Meg Ryan--and the title could have passed on to someone way worse and less eagerly adorable, believe me--and we all just have to learn to accept it.

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Dave White's reviews are amusing and I agree with most of them. Click the link below the quote for more.

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