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Nearly Sane

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Do plants think?
« on: February 16, 2017, 09:39:34 AM »
Perhaps the goal is to be reincarnated as a plant.



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Rhiannon

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2017, 09:56:40 AM »
Not broccoli though.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2017, 09:59:11 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on February 16, 2017, 09:56:40 AM
Not broccoli though.
That's what it wants you to think
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Rhiannon

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2017, 10:00:44 AM »
Ah, a cunning plan to avoid being covered in cheese sauce...
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Walt Zingmatilder

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2017, 11:44:49 AM »
It opens up a new area of physalisophy.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2017, 08:17:57 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 16, 2017, 09:59:11 AM
That's what it wants you to think
Yeah, they would hate it if it leak-ed out.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2017, 08:29:28 PM »
Quote from: Jack Knave on February 16, 2017, 08:17:57 PM
Yeah, they would hate it if it leak-ed out.

Lettuce please be serious on this important question.
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Robbie

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2017, 04:29:34 PM »
Corn-y remarks. I will endiver to find a few more when I've bean out.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2017, 05:21:22 PM »
... then  lettuce spray!
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2017, 08:22:12 PM »
I don't mind which plant I come back as, as long as I have a decent celery. Mind you, if I do come back as a plant, I'll simply think "Oh, my Gourd!"  :-[
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2017, 08:31:59 PM »
Anyone for a game of pass the parsley?
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2017, 08:57:30 PM »
Yes pease but we need someone sage to keep the pease.
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Rhiannon

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2017, 09:39:12 PM »
I don't have the thyme for this.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2017, 09:48:13 PM »
I don't understand why you turnip your nose and leaf!
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2017, 10:41:13 PM »
Some of these puns are only lentil better ones come up.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2017, 11:56:36 PM »
O-live and let live, too much sour grapes. Its no skin off your potato.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2017, 08:44:06 AM »
Quote from: Anchorman on February 22, 2017, 10:41:13 PM
Some of these puns are only lentil better ones come up.

That is just your op-onion, Jim.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2017, 09:00:02 AM »
Quote from: Gordon on February 23, 2017, 08:44:06 AM
That is just your op-onion, Jim.


Ah, but on a s-Kale of one - ten - it oat to be a good one.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2017, 09:37:19 AM »
It's all coming up Roses for me  :)
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2017, 12:55:54 PM »
That's a turnip for the books!
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2017, 01:50:06 PM »
Don't tell Jasper Carrot though.
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Bubbles

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2017, 02:36:43 PM »
A honeysuckle for your thoughts

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2017, 04:48:19 PM »
before retreating in your Courgette Stingray, driving like a manioc with Durian Durian blaring out of the stereo.
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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2017, 01:54:16 PM »
Quote from: The article
There is nowadays a growing scientific consensus that plants are capable of sensing variations in their environment, from changes in light to humidity gradients, from gravitropism—or the pull of gravity determining the upward growth of shoots and the downward extension of roots
Only if "nowadays" extends back at least until the early 80's when I learnt biology at school.
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Rhiannon

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Re: Do plants think?
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2017, 03:06:55 PM »
Yeah, it's long been fairly standard stuff for anyone who has studied even the most basic horticulture at any point too.
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