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8th August 2017, 06:25 AM
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Uselessfullness
We have at some time all encountered useless items, left handed potato peelers, right handed hammers, ambidextrous screwdrivers, politicians etc.
No doubt at some time we have all eaten Watermelon, that green skinned fruit with the red luscious inside.
Now there is a new one, coming to you maybe?
For three decades the Japanese have been working on this and have now managed to produce it.
A square watermelon. Actually cube shaped.
It is according to a spokes man not for eating but for decoration. It will last for about three weeks and fits very well into a square cardboard box specialty made to accommodate it.
Now who would have ever though of such an idea, what next, politicians with brains?
But the Japs are very inventive so maybe in a few hundred years more who knows what theyw ill produce.
We do get some crap on our TV news here in Oz.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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8th August 2017, 06:28 AM
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Could freeze it,take it with on Camping and keep the Backside cool by using as a stool! LOL
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8th August 2017, 09:42 AM
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Now that's a word with two definitions stool and stool , to which are you referring Vernon. Wouldn't put either stool in the fridge. Or am I getting mixed up like Ivan with his free French going the Wrong way at the right time. I will be having nightmares tonight after seeing that movie and will be seeing Brian prising the French hands off the rails of a fleetwood trawler saying you aren't coming on here you froggie basket. And the Frenchman shouting back I know my rights you can't all me a basket I will sue you, mon dieu. Cheers JWS.
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8th August 2017, 11:46 AM
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9th August 2017, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by
gray_marian
CAMPING!! Crikey Doc you would be humphey backit carrying that around
#1, What on earth is the point if you cannot eat them

Hi Marian.
They are going to freeze them and drop a plane load on the White House in retaliation for the Atom bomb
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9th August 2017, 05:12 PM
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Des i'm surprised at your comment about the bombs if those bombs hadn't of been dropped another estimated 2 million americans
would have died and all of the japanese as they were determined to fight to the last man, hundred of thousands of prisoners including
Australians, Kiwis , Brits and others of the commonwealth would have been executed as soon as the allies stepped on Japanese soil.
Those bombs saved millions of lives by bringing the war to an immediate end, Just think how many thousands of families now exist in Australia
because of all the prisoners that were released and got back to their families because of those bombs.
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