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« on: June 24, 2004, 09:56:36 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2004, 10:40:58 PM »
The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino ran a jillion people just to test the stench of one of those thingys back in 1999.  The run on the local news was great, hundreds of eager folks lined up outside for this rare botanical treat.  Watching them pass by it in the chamber it was in while reaching to clog their mouth and noses as defense agaist unwilling expulsion of bodily fluids was priceless.

No, I didn't make that trip.
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2004, 11:57:38 PM »
When it blooms, maybe they will put another webcam on the line of people so we can see all the retching and gagging...that would be really entertaining...
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2004, 12:03:08 AM »
One of those bloomed at the Univerisity of Wisconsin when I was there, and then in did it again a year or two later. I was always trying to avoid the crowds, though, so I missed 'em til they were passed their prime. Cool stuff, though.
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2004, 01:45:53 AM »
Tasty!
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2004, 03:45:29 AM »
i'm sorry, i'm afraid to click the link.

so, it's a bloom whose scent makes people retch?
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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2004, 03:45:49 AM »
Do they sell seeds for the corpse flower?  Our new house has a backyard, and I'm sure the neighbors would love...
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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2004, 04:28:50 AM »
It would maybe be easier just to plant a corpse. But you live in LA, right? I'd just wait a year or two - maybe one's already growing.
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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2004, 01:25:06 AM »
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout?  Will it bloom this year?
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2004, 03:18:54 AM »
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That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout?  Will it bloom this year?


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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2004, 03:36:02 AM »
Wow, that's deep. And weird.

Awesome.
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2004, 03:45:27 AM »
I guess linking to the poem on Plagiarist.com would have been out of the question, eh?

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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2004, 04:01:31 AM »
Far be it from me to seem sycophantic.


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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2004, 05:04:02 AM »
Man, a "Waste Land" reference to be made, and I missed it. I feel awkward and ashamed, much like the maculate giraffe.
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« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2004, 11:54:45 PM »
It Blooms Again, elsewhere


So normally I would not post a followup on a thread this dead and goofy, but thge name of the plant is Amorphophallus Titanum.

Any latin scholars out there?
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