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There are some really cute people around.Making us guess the flavour of the sweet she brought back from Sydney.Sher: There are two flavours in it!Charlie: Papaya and mandarin orange?Sher: Half-correct! It’s not papaya.Charlie: It tastes a bit like grapefruit.Me: Give us a clue? Please?Sher: Well, the other flavour starts with ‘P’, it’s a fruit.RootBeer [skeptical look]: What, pumpkin?Sher: No.Me: Peach??Sher: No!Charlie: Pineapple?!Rootbeer: Pomegranate???Me: Pear!Sher: No, no, no, no, no! [smugly] I think you guys should just give up, you will never guess it.After ten minutes. In the lecture room.Me [persistent]: So what is it? I cannot think of anything else. Are you sure it’s a fruit?Rootbeer: Yeah, pineapple? [In walks MD] Hey MD, do you know of any fruit names starting with ‘P’?MD: Hmm? Pineapple? Papaya? Plum?Me [excited]: Plum! Is it plum?Sher: No, it’s not!Short, acute silence with puzzled frowns exchanged all around.Rootbeer [desperately]: Sher, you cannot do this. You got to tell us, otherwise we will not be able to concentrate on the lecture.After the two-hour lecture. Rootbeer [looking troubled]: I still cannot guess what it is.Me [half-giving up]: Is it pom-pom?Sher: No! I don’t think that is even a fruit, right?Rootbeer: Are you sure it’s a fruit? Did you see correctly?Sher [checking the cover of the sweet wrapper]: OH NO!!!Rootbeer and Me: What?? What?!?Sher: It’s actually grapefruit, I thought it was pomelo. Sorry, I saw wrongly!

s t a r m | s t October 28th, 2005

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