Comments on: Apples As Big As Your Head! (Mar, 1949) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Harry http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066451 Harry Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:35:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066451 Main title: "Breasts As Big As Your Apples!" Sub title: "Mutant Apples as an Alternative to Breast Augmentation Surgery" It worked for her. Main title:
“Breasts As Big As Your Apples!”

Sub title:
“Mutant Apples as an Alternative to Breast Augmentation Surgery”

It worked for her.

]]> By: John M. Hanna http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066399 John M. Hanna Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:59:33 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066399 If I saw apples that big, I'd be afraid a Colour From Space had landed nearby. (See H.P.Lovecraft for reference) If I saw apples that big, I’d be afraid a Colour From Space had landed nearby. (See H.P.Lovecraft for reference)

]]> By: Charlie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066397 Charlie Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:37:16 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066397 And William Tell would have been a lot less impressive. Or less of a child abuser anyway. And William Tell would have been a lot less impressive. Or less of a child abuser anyway.

]]> By: Sorcerer Mickey http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066395 Sorcerer Mickey Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:17:23 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066395 We'd never know about gravity - Newton wouldn't have survived! We’d never know about gravity – Newton wouldn’t have survived!

]]> By: Vozpit http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066393 Vozpit Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:59:13 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066393 Yeah, but it'll keep the doctor away for a week! Yeah, but it’ll keep the doctor away for a week!

]]> By: George Trudeau http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066378 George Trudeau Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:29:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066378 Double the diameter, quadruple the volume, half the taste. Double the diameter, quadruple the volume, half the taste.

]]> By: Adam http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066375 Adam Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:49:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066375 No Eve, not tonight! No Eve, not tonight!

]]> By: MrG http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066373 MrG Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:34:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066373 Actually the basic concepts of the article are not off base: http://www.vectorsite.net/g2008m12.html#m16 The talk about plant hybrids was interesting -- plants hybridize much more easily than animals. Wheat is a very strange hybrid with triplicate pairs of chromosomes, an amalgamation of three grass species. And of course corn is a mutant grass that originally didn't look much different from rye or wheat. But the oversized apples were a Tinsley touch there. MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html Actually the basic concepts of the article are not off base:

http://www.vectorsite.net/g2008m12.html#m16

The talk about plant hybrids was interesting — plants hybridize much more easily than animals.
Wheat is a very strange hybrid with triplicate pairs of chromosomes, an amalgamation of three grass species. And of course corn is a mutant grass that originally didn’t look much different from rye or wheat. But the oversized apples were a Tinsley touch there. MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html

]]> By: Sean http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066371 Sean Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:51:16 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066371 S'hhhhh.... Don't question the excited farm girl of the future. S’hhhhh…. Don’t question the excited farm girl of the future.

]]> By: Dean http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066368 Dean Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:19:23 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066368 How is a tree gonna support those monsters? How is a tree gonna support those monsters?

]]> By: Kent http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066366 Kent Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:18:42 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066366 Herakleophorbia? Herakleophorbia?

]]> By: Charlene http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066365 Charlene Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:04:13 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066365 Not to mention that by the time it's ripe on the outside, it's overripe in the middle. Not to mention that by the time it’s ripe on the outside, it’s overripe in the middle.

]]> By: slim http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/04/apples-as-big-as-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1066364 slim Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:44:31 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7358#comment-1066364 Would you really want an apple as big as your head? It'd be kind of hard to fit in your lunch bag. Would you really want an apple as big as your head? It’d be kind of hard to fit in your lunch bag.

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