OT: OT DURIAN! (wasRe: OT: Marmite! )

on 3/18/06 7:37 PM, Mark J. Reed at markjreed@MAIL.COM wrote:

> On 3/17/06, Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> wrote:
>> LOL extreme measures are called for to seal in the durian goodness ;)
>
> Gaah.  Extreme measures are called-for to *locate* any "goodness" in
> durians.   If y'all keep talking about them like this I'm liable to
> chunder all over my keyboard.
    *snicker-snarlfle!* I have a friend (yes still) who once threatened to
let me walk home if I ordered any Durian pearl drinks in future.

    I countered that he has a convertible.

    He said that is right, but the Durian smell was in his convertible for
like a week. And that was after he aired the car out for that entire period.

    He compares the smell to "a combination of open sewer and stagnant water
with a wiff of decaying somethings."

    I said that it's just an intense rich smell.

    He just groaned, "Ya gotaa be frikkin' kiddin' me! That stuff should
qualify as a biological weapon!"

> DANNY VERMIN: I allowed a durian in my house once . . . ONCE!
>
> Ugh.
>
> There is, in DC comic books, a race of shapeshifting aliens called
> "Durlans".  I do not think the similarity in names is a coincidence.
> I think once, long ago, a Durlan was trapped on Earth, turned himself
> into a plant to escape detection, and died before he could change
> back.  Unfortunately, he was only worried about outward appearance and
> turned into something completely inedible, but people tried it anyway,
> for some reason decided they liked it, and proceeded to breed more of
> him...
    ROTFLMAO Oh that is just libelous conspiracy theorizing from the Fringe
Science lunatics!

    BTW it is quite funny to google how many active Durian fruit
fansites/blogs there are!



--
Hanuman Zhang

             "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe
             is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." -  Albert Einstein