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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (34599)	8/10/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Monster Raspberries, or Raspberry Monsters: Spouse went out picking raspberries (our favorite) yesterday, and blackberries, and Marion berries. Some of the blackberries are so big they look like pine cones. Freaky! Really! We're cleaning berries in the kitchen, and she says, "Look at this one!" "Wow. That's the biggest raspberry I've ever seen." Giant gumdrop. So Mr Measure gets out his instruments, of course. And then I froze them in a little container. They'll be in there for ages. Forever, maybe. I'll finally get mad and eat them someday, after seeing them take up a little nit of space in there every time I clean it out. And when that time coincides with the realization that nobody cares. YET; I did measure these giganto-raspberries. For posterity. Which, actually, is you guys. It would help if you get out a quarter, while we're doing this, and put it on the desk there. Okay? I'll wait. Okay. Okay. See the quarter? It's 15/16ths of an inch in diameter, That's almost an inch. 15 is almost sixteen. Handy; that's how I tell; even before I got into stocks. A raspberry as big as a quarter would be a big raspberry. We're talking raspberry, not potato, here. But how do you compare a raspberry to a quarter? Well, picture standing the perfect cone of a berry on it's top, on the flat part where the stem was ~ set it up like a Christmas tree on top of the quarter there. These two raspberries COVERED the whole quarter!!! With extra! The base of them! The bases were each ONE INCH in diameter! How long or tall are they? Get ready ~ they're a lot longer than the quarter is wide! One of them, Spartacus, is A FULL INCH AND A QUARTER LONG! A RASPBERRY! And the other, Giganticus, is ONE AND THRRREEE EIGHTS OF AN INCH LONG!!! COWS HOLY!!