Re: [aroid-l] Giant Amorphs - what a shame.
- Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Giant Amorphs - what a shame.
- From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" h*@worldonline.nl
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:27:46 +0200
- Importance: Normal
I seem to recall some high-energy exchanges on this list about metric and
barbaric systems.......
The petiole was 30 cm in diameter (= 15 Terabytes).
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> Onderwerp: Re: [aroid-l] Giant Amorphs - what a shame.
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>
> Oh my Lord Protector (of Phalloids and other things)
>
> Don't you have some indulgence with your overseas disciples,
> who are measuring in foot and weighing in stones???
>
> "Wilbert Hetterscheid" <hetter@worldonline.nl> schrieb:
> > Some species of Amorphs have thick stalks as a stable
> character, ............................. > Having said that,
> I have pictures of a giant
> > hewittii in Sarawak with a VERY thick petiole,
>
> So what is a VERY thick petiole in ETU (elephant trunk units)???
>
> > but then the leaf of it is 3 meter high!!!!!!
>
> OH,oh, what on Imperial and American earth would that be in
> inch, foot, yard or miles???
>
> With continental greetings from metric and decimal Germany,
> Bernhard.
>
> P.S.: My dear Lord P.(Protector of and the metric system),
> don't you even DARE to convert the units, one day THEY will
> convert....
>
> >
> > So, now that you robbed me blind of Amorphophalluses,
> you're going to get
> > rid of them again???????????? Just DON'T tell me you switch to
> > Philodendrons.................
> >
> > Lord Protector of Phalloids
>
>
