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The Carrot Shareing Thread
Topic Started: Feb 23 2010, 04:04 PM (244 Views)
Mark Stephen Baker
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Fancy a carrot? Pop on here and share a plesent carrot amongst friends.
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funny you should start this thread 'cause i had the idea today to start a thread or to put in my general beatle thread the idea of sharing spreadsheet/database columns. Everyone does one every month or so by the end of the year it'd be massive. I've got one with the following columns:Song,Composer, originally released on/as, # on running order (just cd)released date (u.K) That's it for now. I think i might add date for the american releases. Any suggestions for columns would be appreciated or not as the case may be
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Mark Stephen Baker
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I'll stick with carrots because I know what they are.
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Carrots used to be purple.
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Mark Stephen Baker
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They used to be all different colours till the Belgians got involved. Or something.
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The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus, Etymology: Middle French carotte, from Late Latin carôta, from Greek karôton, originally from the Indo-European root ker- (horn), due to its horn-like shape) is a root vegetable, usually orange, purple, red, white, or yellow in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. It has been bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot, but is still the same species.

The wild ancestors of the carrot are likely to have come from Afghanistan, which remains the centre of diversity of D. carota, the wild carrot. Selective breeding over the centuries of a naturally-occurring subspecies of the wild carrot, Daucus carota subsp. sativus reducing bitterness, increasing sweetness and minimizing the woody core, has produced the familiar garden vegetable.

In early use, carrots were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds, not their roots. Some relatives of the carrot are still grown for these, such as parsley, fennel, dill and cumin. The first mention of the root in classical sources is in the 1st century CE. The modern carrot appears to have been introduced to Europe in the 8-10th centuries. The 12th c. Arab Andalusian agriculturist, Ibn al-'Awwam, describes both red and yellow carrots; Simeon Seth also mentions both colours in the 11th century. Orange-coloured carrots appeared in the Netherlands in the 17th century. These, the modern carrots, were intended by the antiquary John Aubrey (1626-1697) when he noted in his memoranda "Carrots were first sown at Beckington in Somersetshire Some very old Man there [in 1668] did remember their first bringing hither."

In addition to wild carrot, these alternative (mostly historical) names are recorded for Daucus carota: Bee's-nest, Bee's-nest plant, Bird's-nest, Bird's-nest plant, Bird's-nest root, Carota, Carotte (French), Carrot, Common carrot, Crow's-nest, Daucon, Dawke, Devil's-plague, Fiddle, Gallicam, Garden carrot, Gelbe Rübe (German), Gingidium, Hill-trot, Laceflower, Mirrot, Möhre (German), Parsnip (misapplied), Queen Anne's lace, Rantipole, Staphylinos, and Zanahoria.
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Bill
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What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
Put a puppet on it.
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Mark Stephen Baker
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Bill
Feb 24 2010, 01:34 AM
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
That's got to be one of the fake sun tan women from Eastenders.
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I would prefer a pleasant carrot to a plesent one, but that may just be me.

Unless you meant a present one, which would be a nice token of affection if I was a rabbit.

Though our hamster would probably appreciate one.

Though I think he would like broccoli better. Have any of that?
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Bill
Feb 24 2010, 01:34 AM
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
Paris Hilton?
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BeatleBarb
Feb 27 2010, 10:35 PM
Bill
Feb 24 2010, 01:34 AM
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
Paris Hilton?
Brilliant! :lol:
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