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Thursday, January 18, 2007

The road less travelled is paved with splatted tomatoes

Dear Googly is so pleased, so VERY pleased, to see that it is - for once! - an intelligent question about tomatoes (and not the usual filth about boners and shagging and pee) which brought somebody stumbling across the site.


Unfortunately, I have no idea what measures are being taken by the country’s Tomato-Makers to make their product more appealing to… er, costumers.

But, on the chance that my tomato-curious search friend just made a typographical error, I do know that tomatoes have been bred rot-resistant since the mid-nineties in order to make them more appealing (and longer-lasting) for consumers. Some of whom are bound to be costumers, based on professional demographics and wealth surveys and blah blah blah the banana thing was so much more interesting than this.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think they meant customers. Just sayin'.

kat said...

I feel like a moron.

Hulles said...

Someone should feel like a moron around here, and it ain't you. Dear Anonymous: look up 'sarcasm' in the dictionary. Don't google it.

I don't find it odd at all that people turn to you for tomato costume advice. You did a nice job with the toast people a while back.

Hulles said...

Sorry, apparently one of the duties I've taken on is stating the obvious. Not the first time on your blog, as I recall.

Anonymous said...

Um... hulles? I hate to point out the obvious to one who considers himself an expert but... and i'm just guessing here, i think that the anon above was referring to the googler's intended word being "customers", not "consumers". I don't think they were making a statement about irony at all (which i believe you should look up). Misspelling or misusing a word as not really ironic. Irony is when a word's intended meaning is the exact opposite of its literal meaning.