Re: HUMOR?: fruitbats (wasRe: Butterflies)

>From: tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>Subject: HUMOR?: fruitbats (wasRe: Butterflies)
>Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:51:32 -0000
>
>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Yann Kiraly <yann_kiraly@G...> wrote:
> >
> > What exactley is a fruitbat? Is it an especialy big bat or does it
> > specialise on fruit?
>
>
>1. If a game similar to baseball, cricket, tennis, or badminton is
>played with a fruit, rather than a ball or a bird, the bat used to
>hit the fruit is called a "fruitbat".
>
>2. If, when building a house or other structure out of fruit, some of
>the fruit is broken, the broken pieces are called "fruitbats".  (By
>analogy with "brickbats").
>
>3.  A piece of fruit hurled as a weapon is called a "fruitbat".
that's a fruitcake.

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