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  2. Oddly colored and somewhat phallic: How Miami’s rare tropical ...

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    Roatta, 29, and Schlegel, 25, harnessed social media’s devotion to that which is strange and nostalgic (and possibly profane). They use it to market and sell the niche tropical fruit grown in ...

  3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana - Wikipedia

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    The first sentence predisposes the reader towards the incorrect parsing of the second. After reparsing the second, it becomes clear that the first sentence could be re-parsed in the same way. [further explanation needed] The sentence "time flies like an arrow" is in fact often used to illustrate syntactic ambiguity. [1]

  4. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Demonstrations of ambiguity between alternative syntactic structures underlying a sentence. I made her duck. [8] [9] One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. [10] Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Eats shoots and leaves

  5. Fruit (slang) - Wikipedia

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    The Coster's Mansion, 1899 sheet music. A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words costard (a type of apple) [9] and monger, i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall.

  6. Once and for All: Is a Pumpkin a Fruit or a Vegetable? - AOL

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    “By definition, a fruit is the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds,” says Appel. “Thus, by definition, pumpkin is technically fruit.”

  7. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    The c-selection of the adjectives colorless and green are satisfied as they combine with noun idea, satisfying the requirement that an adjective modifies a noun. The c-selection of the intransitive verb sleep is satisfied as it combines with the subject colorless green ideas , satisfying the requirement that an intransitive verb combines with a ...

  8. 6 inspiring Black protest songs, from 'Strange Fruit' to ...

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    Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.

  9. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Shows that a sentence can be paradoxical even if it is not self-referring and does not use demonstratives or indexicals. Yablo's paradox: An ordered infinite sequence of sentences, each of which says that all following sentences are false. While constructed to avoid self-reference, there is no consensus whether it relies on self-reference or not.