On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:55PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > There is a tale in my country about an arrogant man that considered absurd > that a pumpkin, being a large fruit, comes from a short plant, and the > blackberry [1] comes from a tall tree although it is a tiny fruit. He kept > thinking like this until he fell asleep under a blackberry tree and was > awaken by a blackberry hitting his nose.
Just for the record, I would consider "cherry" to be a better replacement than "blackberry" here. The Blackberry grows on a trailing bush with thorny tendrils. Although its fruit is small, it's unlikely anyone would sleep under one. A cherry, on the other hand, grows on a full-sized tree under which someone could conceivably sleep. In addition, the stone in the cherry would give added impact when falling one someone's nose :*)
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