On Feb 11, 2008 2:35 AM, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
On 10/02/2008, Relata Refero refero.relata@gmail.com wrote:
The article is even littered with unqualified fictional statements such as "In the Rhubarb Triangle (a triangle made up of the 3 cities of Leeds, Bradford & Wakefield in West Yorkshire), rhubarb grows so quickly, you can hear it grow."
Fictional, is it?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/art...
Try reading that again and comparing it to the statement I quoted above. They do not correspond.
The corrected sentence would read as: "In a small number of farms in Leeds, Bradford & Wakefield in West Yorkshire, the farmers use zero-light growth sheds to accelerate the growth of rhubarb. In the quiet environment of the sheds it is possible to hear stalk buds bursting open."
Dear Lord, humour is dead. Of course they don't strictly correspond, its a TV show. Its a very slight rewording of an indisputable fact for humorous effect. Its simply not "fictional", and you didn't bother to check.
Why don't you make it easier on yourself and pick a real example of bloat?
RR