Today's Mystery - Can You Guess What It Is?

[Ivan Seeking]

This is an extremely well known area in the US

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7498/desertscene2ne8.jpg

 

[Kurdt]

That ones rather easy Ivan and perhaps a rather obvious choice from yourself. That would be Groom Lake otherwise known as area 51.

 

[Evo]

Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Heh, I figured that would go quickly but was worth a try.

btw, I'm not an area 51 guy, so the obvious connection is a predisposed bias on your part.

 

[zoobyshoe]

This is an extremely well known area in the US

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7498/desertscene2ne8.jpg

Wow! On the lower right there's a baboon face in 3/4 profile. Looks like he's lying on his back looking up at the top of the picture.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!

Not this time. The winner of this contest receives The Golden Probe Award.

oh Kurdt...

 

[Kurdt]

Heh, I figured that would go quickly but was worth a try.

btw, I'm not an area 51 guy, so the obvious connection is a predisposed bias on your part.

I assumed you might live there since you used to be a grey skinned alien.

Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!

Are you trying to get rid of me

I was rather hoping for a weeks invasive surgery in the secret facilities at Groom Lake.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I assumed you might live there since you used to be a grey skinned alien.

Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.

 

[Evo]

Not this time. The winner of this contest receives The Golden Probe Award.

oh Kurdt...

 

[Integral]

Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.

That pretty much puts an end to the idea of Alien intellegence.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That pretty much puts an end to the idea of Alien intellegence.

...psssssst, Obama is one of us.

 

[rewebster]

Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.

that also explains the cold, gray skin and big heads

 

[rewebster]

I'll piggyback on Evo's thread:

Ok---What is it?

 

[Evo]

Pomegranite Seeds, My Favorite!

 

[rewebster]

just had one for lunch and took a photo--

where do YOU want to go for a week, Evo?


would this one have been harder for you to get?

 

[Kurdt]

Damn too late. I think Evo would enjoy a trip to death valley. She can keep me company for a week.

 

[Evo]

Nope, I grew up with pomegranites, 'tis the season. A harder picture might have been leaving the white membrane over the seeds.

 

[Gokul43201]

A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade'), but how many of you know that the botanical name of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) is the only biological name that has one specific type of bad grammar - the gender of the adjective does not agree with the gender of the noun (it should instead be Punica granata)?

 

[Evo]

Damn too late. I think Evo would enjoy a trip to death valley. She can keep me company for a week.

Woohoo! Did I ever tell you that I can make a knife and spearhead out of a harmonica?

I'm watching Survivorman right now. I'm learning how to live in the mountaintops in winter with only a camera in my backpack. I think the camera turns into a microwave oven.

Damn, I spelled pomegranate wrong, looks like Gokul has to come to death Valley with kurdt and I to make sure we don't make spelling and grammatical errors.

 

[Kurdt]

If i don't bring a harmonica you won't need a knife or spearhead . Unfortunatley I missed most of the survival programs here so I think I won't survive.

 

[Evo]

Wasn't it Persephone that had to spend a a month each year for every pomegranate seed she ate while in Hades? Which explains winter.

 

[rewebster]

"Persephone (Proserpine) was a daughter of Zeus and the Greek fertility goddess
Demeter (Ceres). Hades (Pluto) condemned Persephone to eternity in the underworld,
because she had eaten the forbidden fruit (pomegranate seeds). She was allowed to
return to the surface of the Earth for part of the year. Persephone was also
a personification of spring."

 

[Gokul43201]

Yes, it was Persephone. She was the Ancient Greeks' groundhog!

 

[Kurdt]

Surely the groundhog myth is the modern day persephone.

 

[rewebster]

well, she could stay at my place in my spare bedroom for those couple of months while she wasn't in hell

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There ya' go Evo, you win one week in Hell (California)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_California

 

[Kurdt]

That has to be the best opening sentence of any wikipedia article ever.

 

[SpaceTiger]

A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade')

Obviously. I mean, what kind of people wouldn't know these things? People with no idea of what's important, that's who! I want to picket these people...

...and I'll smear the signs with pomegranate juice. Now that would be hard-hitting, like a Wolf Blitzer newsbreak on Easter Sunday.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Today's "What is it?". Can anyone quess? If you ask, I will give hints.

Perhaps we should preface each of these challenges with an "Is this something?" poll.

 

[rewebster]

My parents took us to Hell on vacation when we visited my grandparents when I was a kid





(on the way to the Colorado River).

 

[Moonbear]

A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade'), but how many of you know that the botanical name of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) is the only biological name that has one specific type of bad grammar - the gender of the adjective does not agree with the gender of the noun (it should instead be Punica granata)?

Did you take the useless trivia quiz yet? Or should we just start calling you Cliff?