On Feb 11, 2008 2:35 AM, Earle Martin <wikipedia(a)downlode.org> wrote:
On 10/02/2008, Relata Refero
<refero.relata(a)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/ar…
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