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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."
a beowulf cluster of these!
Mike Meyers: "Dad -- how can you hate *The Colonel*?"
Mike Meyers: "Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fort-nightly, smarrrrrrrtass! Oh, I hated the Colonel, with his wee, beady eyes: 'Ooooh, you're goin'ta buy my chicken, oooh!'"