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Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant
An anonymous reader writes "So, according to a KPTV newscast, a Simpsons fan with too much time on his hands grafted a tobacco plant and a tomato plant and, ta-da: tomacco! Leaves and most likely the fruit (yes, tomato is a fruit technically) contain nicotine. Delicious AND deadly!" Simpsonschannel.com has a small news piece on the breakthrough, but in a Frink-like move, although scientists have found "nicotine in the leaves", it turns out "the lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does."
From the article: "The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons.
:P
What do you bet that McDonald's will start using these tomatoes to make us all addicted to their salads and burgers?
"This tates like grandma!" Love that episode.
My sig is blank, I typed this by hand.
I wonder where they got the plutonium to grow the crop?
If Phillip Morris starts selling tomatos, I'm not buying.
"Technology.....the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." Max Firsch
Everyone seems to set about making the impossible things in TV shows become a reality. Perhaps we need to start a TV show where geeks get laid by hot chicks all the time?
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yes, tomato is a fruit technically
Yes, botanically the tomato is a fruit. However, legally, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, tomatos are vegetables.
Wherein The Simpsons serves as prior art.
They're simply addictive! We hope to have a full line of Tomacco snack food products on the shelves as soon as we can get the pro-forma FDA approval.
-- R.J. Reynolds
Let's get this guy working on the raining donuts!
I can see the crowds at the movie theaters...
I'm still waiting for the "tobaccy and clam ice cream" for chain smoking otters.
The odds of a mutation creating all parts simultaneously are astronomical, and consequently, the only accepted theory that can sanely describe such a thing is intelligent design
Intelligent Design is an "accepted" theory?! I think you've been smoking too many tomacco leaves...
...does it smell like Grandma?
If The Simpsons has taught us anything, and it hasn't, it's that Tomacco plants aren't a good idea.
I've never wanted to go out for a veggie break so bad before.
Would ketchup packets replace nicotine patches?
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
An open plea to the Simpsons writers:
Please, more episodes about cold fusion.
Thank you.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Tomato plants can get the Tobacco Mosaic virus, too.
Frightening. Is IE also vulnerable?
MT
... but with marijuana plants. Tomajuana anyone?
btw, you're wrong.
Is IE also vulnerable?
;-)
IE is *always* vulnerable.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Applacco: An applacco a day keeps the cigarette away !
Cabbageacco: There's now a way to make your kids WANT to eat their cabbage soup.
Carrotabacco: It's not a problem if you overcook them !
Maybe we deserve this world ?
just need the tomeato plant.
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Worst... plant... ever.
Are you posting in the right place? Your comment was full of information and completely lacking in radical bias.
Thank you. I think I learnt something today.
Cheers
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Yeah... I was going to do that... with acid... had it growing in strawberries... but then I tried it and kinda... forgot how I did it... along with eight years of college...
They are actually a type of vegetable called a fruit vegetable
No, you're thinking of Richard Simmons if he were in a coma.
Nothing is provable without a URL.
Ah, that proves nothing.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Maybe we'll start seeing actors eating a LOT of tomatoes in TV and movies.
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I say tobato
If enithin kan gow rong it whil. (Murfey)
"Tomatsup"? Please post your "D'oh!" now or we will be forced to do it for you.
SQUEAK, the Death of Rats explained.
no...but it sure as hell could wean people off tomatoes!
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
How about this?
Nothing is provable without a URL.
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
I, for one, welcome our crop Overlords
I want my Tomeato.
The bed scene, after the lovin' is done...
"Marinara sauce?"
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Next we need
popplers, Slurm, and solent cola.
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Of course, all "vegetables" are "technically" fruits. The notion of "vegetable" as distinct from fruit is a cultural construct. Ain't Slashdot great?
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