{Meta.107.500}: Basilisk of Calabash {cybresearch}
 Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:00:45 CDT (23 lines)

Ahem!

It has come to my attention that the calumny, so recently directed
at lettuce and squash, has now spread to other greens, including
those we hold most sacred and dear.

I declare it unseemly and disrespectful to demean such highly
sensitive herbs and I shall not hesitate to haunt those who
obliviously delight in bringing such mean-spirited suffering to
our beloved succotash.

I warn you, I am the very model of a modern major vegetable. I've
information general, of animals and minerals.

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters horticultural. I
understand relations, both the simple and genetical.  About binary
contretemps I'm teeming with a lot o' clues, with many cheerful facts
about the smoking of the bong o' juice.

I'm very good at watering and germicidal incubus; I know the
scientific names of herbals categoricus:  In short, in matters
horticultural, microbic and debatable, I am the very model of a
modern major vegetable.