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TrainerAZ
That's right, a Japanese company that can't figure out how to do a website in English HAS created a device to turn a floral arrangement into a speaker. The vibrations travel through the plant stems and exit through the leaves and petals.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/ap_091304.asp
conju
That's exactly why I don't keep plants at my house.
~Y~
I'm always coming home to find that my ficus threw a rave. (At least that's what the dog tells me.) I say, if they have time to party... then they have time to get a job! Damn freeloadin' shrubbery!!! angrysoapbox.sml
DrinkSlinger
I hate to tell you this, but the dog's lying.

Shrubs don't pitch tents on the carpet.
Glassolalia
QUOTE(conju @ Sep 16 2004, 12:45 PM)
That's exactly why I don't keep plants at my house.

My Dad used to swear that my Mom was training her spider plant to strangle him, so he tried to abolish all plant life from our house.
conju
Did it work?
CelticGent
the training, strangling, or abolishing?
Glassolalia
None of it worked....
Oscar
Did the Mayan "end-of-the-world prediction" for 2012 include plants?
Glassolalia
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Nope - not that I remember, anyway!
Kirk
Woody Allen kills a man with a giant rudebega in the future though.
Oscar
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens".
(Death) Woody Allen
TrainerAZ
QUOTE(DrinkSlinger @ Sep 16 2004, 09:57 AM)
I hate to tell you this, but the dog's lying.

Shrubs don't pitch tents on the carpet.

But I bet the Shrub does.



Can't we just give him to the Knights who say Ni?
conju
No, that's too much work.
sixela
QUOTE(TrainerAZ @ Sep 17 2004, 03:55 AM)
Can't we just give him to the Knights who say Ni?

They're no longer the knights who say "Ni!", and I doubt he can pronouce their new name.
CelticGent
sometimes i make me giggle.
Absomphe
No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does.

No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does.

Doesn't.

Does.

Doesn't.

Does.

This isn't an argument.

Yes it is.

No it isn't.

Yes it is.

No, you're just contradicting everything I say, that doesn't make it an argument.

Yes, it does...........
MrGreenGenes
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot both of you.
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~Y~
I'll be your back up sniper and pick off the ones you may miss. smiley_abxy.gif
conju
QUOTE(sixela @ Sep 17 2004, 05:20 AM)
pronouce their new name.

2 part question: Is it sad that I know that? and if so, what can I do to avoid it in the future?
A.B. Normal
Part 1: Yes. But I'm sure you're not the only one. At least you were man enough to admit it.

Part 2: Drink. More.
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