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

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!!!!

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

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.

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!!

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?

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

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?     

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I'm bubbling at the prospect.

Maybe we should start a fundraiser?

Lemon Aid?     

I'm bubbling at the prospect.

Sourpuss!

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

Sounds more like sour grapes to me!

no need to get bitter about it.

how do you think farang fruit feel...

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

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

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

Lemon it is..

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! )

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

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.

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

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.

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?