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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?
I wonder where they got the plutonium to grow the crop?
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?
mogorific carpentry experiments
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.
Let's get this guy working on the raining donuts!
I can see the crowds at the movie theaters...
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...
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?
Is IE also vulnerable?
;-)
IE is *always* vulnerable.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Astronimical = 2.734 metric craploads
FYI
ymmv
Worst... plant... ever.
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?
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.