bannork Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shola Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampard10 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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!!!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you lemon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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!!!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wait til the LIMES get you for racism!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockstar Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Maybe we should start a fundraiser? Lemon Aid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insight Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Jock, that was so bad it was bloody good! Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 Maybe we should start a fundraiser?Lemon Aid? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm bubbling at the prospect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockstar Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 (edited) Maybe we should start a fundraiser?Lemon Aid? I'm bubbling at the prospect. Sourpuss! Edited February 9, 2005 by Jockstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shola Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunlungphudhu Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Sounds more like sour grapes to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayo Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 no need to get bitter about it. how do you think farang fruit feel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAttack Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 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 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure but I think you are trying to take the pith out of this topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopburi3 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 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 poorlemon is impossible to eat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro01 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Dunno - my son won't let me call Honda a 'Mickey Mouse' car company... Lemon it is.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shola Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 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 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure but I think you are trying to take the pith out of this topic <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL (Absolutly not! I'm merely trying to get to the core of the problem, pip pip! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotworms Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't they have used limes? I've never seen a lemon in Thailand. bannork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAttack Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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