Why A Lemon?

[bannork]

Reading the story of the woman trashing her car the other day I noticed the car was referred to as a lemon. Why should a lemon signify something of poor quality, why not a pineapple,or even a water melon?

An Australian professor told me it's because you feel sour after the experience of buying a 'lemon' but I remember as a boy standing on the football field and being bellowed at by the P.E. teacher,' Don't just stand there like a lemon, move the ball!' I don't recall feeling sour at the time, more like frozen to death on the N.Yorks tundra.

bannork

Edited February 9, 2005 by bannork

[Shola]

I stand up for the rights of all lemons!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Join us in our quest for L.A.F!!!!

[lampard10]

I stand up for the rights of all lemons!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Join us in our quest for L.A.F!!!!

   

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you lemon

[Gazza]

Lemon?? I thought people were calling me a 'Lemming'. Maybe I'm as deaf as a door nail, I dunno.

It was enough to make me 'sick as a parrot' being called a lemming.

[chico]

I stand up for the rights of all lemons!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Lemons against fruitism!

Join us in our quest for L.A.F!!!!

   

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Wait til the LIMES get you for racism!!

[Jockstar]

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?

[Insight]

Jock, that was so bad it was bloody good! Nice one

[bannork]

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?     

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I'm bubbling at the prospect.

[Jockstar]

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?     

I'm bubbling at the prospect.

Sourpuss!

Edited February 9, 2005 by Jockstar

[Shola]

Exsqueeze me! I Lemon am feeling bitter over your sharp comments!

FYI Jock, Lemon-aid is a different branch for our under ripened kin elsewhere. L.A.F is a separate bunch!

Sorry to leave on such a sour note

[khunlungphudhu]

Sounds more like sour grapes to me!

[kayo]

no need to get bitter about it.

how do you think farang fruit feel...

[McAttack]

Exsqueeze me! I Lemon am feeling bitter over your sharp comments!

FYI Jock,  Lemon-aid is a different branch for our under ripened kin elsewhere. L.A.F is a separate bunch!

Sorry to leave on such a sour note    

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I'm not sure but I think you are trying to take the pith out of this topic

[lopburi3]

It is full of promise but disappoints. As PPM sang:

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet but the fruit of the poor

lemon is impossible to eat

[pedro01]

Dunno - my son won't let me call Honda a 'Mickey Mouse' car company...

Lemon it is..

[Shola]

Exsqueeze me! I Lemon am feeling bitter over your sharp comments!

FYI Jock,  Lemon-aid is a different branch for our under ripened kin elsewhere. L.A.F is a separate bunch!

Sorry to leave on such a sour note    

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I'm not sure but I think you are trying to take the pith out of this topic

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LOL

(Absolutly not! I'm merely trying to get to the core of the problem, pip pip! )

[bannork]

I recall the song on Led Zeppelin 1 where Robert Plant sings,"(she) squeezed my lemon till the juice ran down my leg', it's an old blues song, Ledbelly? Whatever , it goes to show that at one time the lemon was an object desired, to be protected and cherished, at least by the male species.

So, what went wrong?

bannork

[igotworms]

We can look back to around 1996 to the great ping-pong ball shortage of Patpong. Lemons were used as a substitute and their tarnished image never fully recovered.

[bannork]

We can look back to around 1996 to the great ping-pong ball shortage of Patpong.  Lemons were used as a substitute and their tarnished image never fully recovered.

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Wouldn't they have used limes? I've never seen a lemon in Thailand.

bannork

[Jai Dee]

Wouldn't they have used limes? I've never seen a lemon in Thailand.

bannork

Lemons were being sold at Carrefour in Pattaya on the weekend.

[McAttack]

Ahh. The plight of the Lemon...

To be hung on a tree...segregated from other fruit...carted at the back of the truck...sold into servitude at market....and then the life squeezed out of it...

cruel, cruel world.....when will it end?