I hereby proclaim the watermelon SL's national fruit.

Who's with me?

Not sure about fruit... but I can think of a few users that might qualify as fruitcakes......

Lewis

I am wondering how can watermelon be declared a national fruit when it isn't even a fruit??

Torley might kill me for this but...

WHAT is actually a watermelon???

Aw Shit. Now I'll have to make a limited edition Watermelon-Themed SH-22c Maverick. Anyone got any watermelony textures I can use as a gift to our new diety?

I would have nominated Cyrus Apollo - but eh - can't have everything

Wikipedia thinks its a fruit.

Actually, it is. "Vegetable" is not a technical term. It's a silly, imprecise word made up by cooks who never went to college, and refers to an edible part of a plant, whether it's actually a fruit, leaf or root.
"Fruit", in the proper meaning of the word, is the plant kingdom's equivalent of an ovary.
Scientifically speaking, a cucumber (a "vegetable" closely related to the watermelon) is also a fruit. You know the little bulb thingy that stays behind in a flower after the petals are dead or removed? That is also a fruit / ovary. Whether or not it's edible is irrelevant - it is still a fruit.
Anything in a flowering plant (angiosperms) that produces and encases seeds is a fruit.
Non-flowering plants (gymnosperms) produce seeds but not fruits. So the pinecone, for instance, is not technically considered a flower or fruit, even though it serves the same purpose.
Long live King / Queen / Cat / Rabbit / Robot Torley, everlasting, ever-shifting, SEMPER WATERMELONIS

Thereby proving that Wikipedia is about as authoritative a reference resource as asking your pissed mate down the pub

Lol! Well I don't know! Who needs a brain when the internets out there?

I've never inquired about watermelon being a fruit or not..

What is it then?

The thing you need a brain for on the internets is knowing what parts are utter shite and what parts might just be somewhere near the truth.

And lets not argue about what the Watermelon is or isn't and what sources may or may not be right, shall we? There are far more worthy things to try and pwn each other about. Like, Impeach Bush Signs!

What, pie isn't the national fruit/vegetable/flag/animal/mascot/CEO of SL?


- Newfie

Yesh?

What was that old addage? 'Garbage in, gospel out'.

And SL is not a nation.

Fruit and Vegetable are common enough terms that we can acknowledge the differentiation in usage, though, indeed, the term vegetable is rather a farce.

However, the National Watermelon Promotion Board considers it a vegetable and that is good enough for me.

http://watermelon.org/index.asp?a=dsp&htype=funn&pid=32

"Watermelon's official name is Citrullus lanatus of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae and it is a vegetable! It is related to cucumbers, pumpkins and squash. "


I do not, however, support the Watermelon as SL's national fruit nor do I accept the use of Wikipedia.

I found these watermelons and thought they were kind of neat .. pretty spacious too if you feel like useing it for a house Can contact me in game for where i got them.

I have them at Maroon 90,73,46 if you want to check them out

tks goes to RacerX & Snail Dude for modeling the doorway

Oh almost forgot have some textures too LOL

Seconds the vote for watermelon as the national fruit of secondlife.

Eggy. Is there something you dont know?? LOL

If it has seeds, it IS a fruit!

Watermelons were done better in BETA.

I don't care what the National Watermelon Board thinks. It is a FRUIT.

coco

Yes.
Anything else I can help you with?
This is basic high school material over here... I was rather fond of biology, and even considered pursuing a career in it. But then I discovered computers and became a programmer instead.