Wordie: Apple: Comments

Comment by crunchysaviour, about 1 month ago

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:20:18 +0000

Most annoyingly pronounced in combination with "pie".

Comment by plethora, 4 months ago

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:51:10 +0000

From Family Feud a couple of years ago:
Bert Newton: Name a green vegetable.
Contestant: Umm... apple?
Me: *facepalm*

Comment by mollusque, 4 months ago

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:34:08 +0000

Strangely enough, kewpid, while I read your comment I was biting into an apple. (Having lunch at my desk as usual.)

Comment by kewpid, 4 months ago

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:37:09 +0000

I'm eating one right now. Yum yum.

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:25:03 +0000

"saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala
- dux ego vester eram - vidi cum matre legentem.
alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus,
iam fragilis poteram a terra contingere ramos.
ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error!

In our orchard-close I saw thee, a little girl with her mother--
I guided you both--gathering apples wet with dew:
the next year after eleven had just received me:
I could just reach the brittle branches from the ground.
As I saw, how I perished, how the fatal craze swept me away!"
- 'Eclogue VIII', Virgil.

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:18:34 +0000

"Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again. It is in this manner that they will be kept in renovated youth until Ragnarok." - Edda.

Comment by rolig, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:49:26 +0000

Another version of the same fragment:

Like the sweet-apple reddening high on the branch,
High on the highest, the apple-pickers forgot,
Or not forgotten, but one they couldn’t reach…
– Sappho, tr. A.S. Kline

Comment by rolig, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:45:47 +0000

Shall I compare you
To a lone red apple
High atop the tallest tree
Some say all who came
Passed it by
I say none
Can reach that high.
– Sappho

Comment by uselessness, 10 months ago

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:39:24 +0000

I don't get it...

Comment by oroboros, 10 months ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:11:55 +0000

Apple : Macintosh :: Blackberry : ?

Click on the "?" for the answer. There are 4 separate qualities the answer shares with the others.

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:18:43 +0000

Excellent suggestion, rt. Will do.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:09:19 +0000

It does sound like a Wisconsin thing. Or maybe PA, where I live. Cheese is King in Philadelphia. :-)

I say you start your own list of serendipitous typos, npydyuan. Imagine the possibilities!

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:05:52 +0000

Sounds like a Wisconsin thing. Ya know, where you sit around on your dupa eating enormous apple pies with lots of cheese. And beer.

Is there a good word for a serendipitous typo? On first attempt at above sentence, I came up with enormouse. Scary and cute!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:18:36 +0000

Really? But cheese is so good with apples!

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:12:56 +0000

or mock apple pie with Ritz crackers?

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:07 +0000

Now there's a combination I cannot imagine.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:28:42 +0000

Tasty!

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:27:10 +0000

Can somebody explain apple pie with cheddar cheese?

better than

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:06:39 +0000

windows.