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And what even is it? What is a derry-o?
That is also a debate.

Is it derry-o?
Dairy-o?
A deiro?

And like Bruce says, what is it even?

All these unanswered questions. The farmer in the dell must have been very confused.
 

Magenta

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Sounds like a peach. :)
Oh, it does, doesn't it? Heh, I don't know why they called me that, it was nowhere near my real name :)

Melba (apple)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[TH="class: cultivar, colspan: 2, align: center"]'Melba apple'[/TH]
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[TR]
[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]
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[TH="align: left"]Genus[/TH]
[TD="class: genus"]Malus[/TD]
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[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Species[/TH]
[TD="class: binominal"]M. domestica[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Hybrid parentage[/TH]
[TD]McIntosh x Liveland Raspberry apple[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Cultivar[/TH]
[TD]'Melba'[/TD]
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[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Origin[/TH]
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Ontario,
Canada[/TD]
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Melba is a Canadian high quality cultivar of domesticated apple, which was developed by W. T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm, in Ottawa, Ontario by crossing a McIntosh with a Liveland Raspberry apple. It has a yellow skin washed with crimson colour. Flesh is extremely white, firm and crisp. Flavor is sweet with hints of tart.

There is also a Red Melba mutation which is more red coloured, and is ripening later in season. This tree is very productive and can bear fruit at a young age, but has a biennial tendency. Early harvest. Need high skill gardening but highly rewarded. It is mainly used for fresh eating.

Heh, I just learned something! Thank you! :D

Yeah, I mostly liked it. She had an employee who did NOT stop smiling EVER lol
I mean I guess that's good, but seriously one time he was trying to put together a chair and was doing it wrong and was still smiling.
He was a good guy tho lol.
I liked hanging around him cuz he tended to be a lot more positive than my step mother haha.
They had a really cool fish tank xD

Melba....someone in a book had that name I think
What kind of fish did they keep? Tanks can be high maintenance :p

Famous People Named Melba
Melba Moore, American singer and actress
Melba Montgomery, American country music singer
Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer
Melba Pattillo Beals, American civil rights activist, who integrated the
all-white Central High School as part of the "Little Rock Nine"
Melba Phillips, American physicist and science educator

Pop Culture References for the name Melba

Melba Toast
Anagram of MABEL
Melba, popular singer who marries Malcolm in James Purdy's novel "Malcolm" (1959)
Melba, a koala character in the video game series of "Animal Crossing".

Nicknames & Variations for Melba
Malva, Melva, Mellba

Melba: Meaning Of Name Melba | Nameberry.com
 

Dino246

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When you see a thread created by someone you don't know and it's a wall of text, do you first look for replies from people you know and see if they're in agreement before you bother reading OP? Kind of like, if your friend 'liked' this and agrees to this post, must be worth the read, something like that? No? Only I do that? Okay.
It depends on the gist of the first few lines, and how much time I have. If I see that people whom I respect have liked or responded I am more likely to read the whole post.
 
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TemporaryCircumstances

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Oh, it does, doesn't it? Heh, I don't know why they called me that, it was nowhere near my real name :)

Melba (apple)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[TABLE="class: infobox biota, width: 22"]
[TR]
[TH="class: cultivar, colspan: 2, align: center"]'Melba apple'[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Genus[/TH]
[TD="class: genus"]Malus[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Species[/TH]
[TD="class: binominal"]M. domestica[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Hybrid parentage[/TH]
[TD]McIntosh x Liveland Raspberry apple[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Cultivar[/TH]
[TD]'Melba'[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="align: left"]Origin[/TH]
[TD]
Ontario,
Canada[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Melba is a Canadian high quality cultivar of domesticated apple, which was developed by W. T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm, in Ottawa, Ontario by crossing a McIntosh with a Liveland Raspberry apple. It has a yellow skin washed with crimson colour. Flesh is extremely white, firm and crisp. Flavor is sweet with hints of tart.

There is also a Red Melba mutation which is more red coloured, and is ripening later in season. This tree is very productive and can bear fruit at a young age, but has a biennial tendency. Early harvest. Need high skill gardening but highly rewarded. It is mainly used for fresh eating.

Heh, I just learned something! Thank you! :D

What kind of fish did they keep? Tanks can be high maintenance :p

Famous People Named Melba
Melba Moore, American singer and actress
Melba Montgomery, American country music singer
Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer
Melba Pattillo Beals, American civil rights activist, who integrated the
all-white Central High School as part of the "Little Rock Nine"
Melba Phillips, American physicist and science educator

Pop Culture References for the name Melba

Melba Toast
Anagram of MABEL
Melba, popular singer who marries Malcolm in James Purdy's novel "Malcolm" (1959)
Melba, a koala character in the video game series of "Animal Crossing".

Nicknames & Variations for Melba
Malva, Melva, Mellba

Melba: Meaning Of Name Melba | Nameberry.com
Oy...I can't even remember just a bunch of colorful pretty fish. Haha. She had me clean out the inside often.
 
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When you see a thread created by someone you don't know and it's a wall of text, do you first look for replies from people you know and see if they're in agreement before you bother reading OP? Kind of like, if your friend 'liked' this and agrees to this post, must be worth the read, something like that? No? Only I do that? Okay.
That's exactly what I do! :D
 
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crosstweed

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Whoever's bored, I recommend this book, it is really great: "All of Grace" by Charles Spurgeon
Bless his Calvinist heart... I don't agree with all of his theology, but the man had some absolutely fantastic things to share and I think very highly of him.
 
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Bless his Calvinist heart... I don't agree with all of his theology, but the man had some absolutely fantastic things to share and I think very highly of him.
I thought he was a Lutheran! He sounds like one.

OH OH OH and I just found this, I can't believe I never found this earlier: The Pilgrim's Progress MODERN ENGLISH bahahaha. I confess I can't understand a single world from the original Pilgrim book. Ugh.

Here it is (and it's free btw): The Pilgrim’s Progress (New Edition) | Desiring God
 
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I thought he was a Lutheran! He sounds like one.

OH OH OH and I just found this, I can't believe I never found this earlier: The Pilgrim's Progress MODERN ENGLISH bahahaha. I confess I can't understand a single world from the original Pilgrim book. Ugh.

Here it is (and it's free btw): The Pilgrim’s Progress (New Edition) | Desiring God
Kewl!

LOL Yeah, the fact that I've pretty much always read the KJV helps a lot with that Olde English... (Although Shakespeare requires a lot of extra language research to be intelligible to me)

Spurgeon seems to have been a Baptist...
Slightly off-topic, I like this (taken from this article here Spurgeon Almost Quit | Desiring God )

"We would have it so happen that, when our life’s history is written, whoever reads it will not think of us as “self-made men,” but as the handiwork of God, in whom his grace is magnified. Not in us may men see the clay, but the Potter’s hand. They said of one, “He is a fine preacher;” but of another they said, “We never notice how he preaches,but we feel that God is great.” We wish our whole life to be a sacrifice; an altar of incense continually smoking with sweet perfume unto the Most High. Oh, to be borne through the year on the wings of praise to God to mount from year to year, and raise at each ascent a loftier and yet lowlier song unto the God of our Life! The vista of a praiseful life will never close, but continue throughout eternity. From psalm to psalm, from hallelujah to hallelujah, we will ascend the hill of the Lord; until we come into the Holiest of all, where, with veiled faces, we will bow before the Divine Majesty in the bliss of endless adoration." - Charles Spurgeon


 
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Kewl!

LOL Yeah, the fact that I've pretty much always read the KJV helps a lot with that Olde English... (Although Shakespeare requires a lot of extra language research to be intelligible to me)

Spurgeon seems to have been a Baptist...
Slightly off-topic, I like this (taken from this article here Spurgeon Almost Quit | Desiring God )
I like that too! I think I'll subscribe to this website lol. "Desiring God" is still in my list of to-read books. Have you read it?

Oh and I never had Shakespeare, should be a good thing lol but I feel like I'm totally missing out on some of that Elizabethan era. I can't stand the KJV either! Haha.
 
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crosstweed

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I like that too! I think I'll subscribe to this website lol. "Desiring God" is still in my list of to-read books. Have you read it?

Oh and I never had Shakespeare, should be a good thing lol but I feel like I'm totally missing out on some of that Elizabethan era. I can't stand the KJV either! Haha.
No, I've heard of it but I haven't read it...

I never had to read Shakespeare, but I did read through some of his stuff and lean a totally new vocabulary (and learned how to effectively insult people in Elizabethan English, but that's another story...).

KJV is my preferred translation. Once you learn the lingo and get used to the 'thees' and 'thous', I think it's an extremely accurate translation. Reading it side by side with other translations, in my experience it's usually truer to the original text.
 
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No, I've heard of it but I haven't read it...

I never had to read Shakespeare, but I did read through some of his stuff and lean a totally new vocabulary (and learned how to effectively insult people in Elizabethan English, but that's another story...).

KJV is my preferred translation. Once you learn the lingo and get used to the 'thees' and 'thous', I think it's an extremely accurate translation. Reading it side by side with other translations, in my experience it's usually truer to the original text.
Haha I'd love to hear that story one day. Yeah, I try to read KJV with my preferred version ESV (EaSy Version xD).
 
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I love the KJV! :D It sounds sooo poetic.. :rolleyes:

I didn't appreciate shakespeare in high school, but now I can thanks to the KJV (I think)..
 
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crosstweed

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Okay, confession time: I'm a little bit of a closet Olde English grammar Nazi. I love Joseph Ducreux memes, but the constant misuse/abuse of the archaic wording makes me shake my head in sadness.
 
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I heard someone speaking about the KJV once and they said it like requires college level reading comprehension. Yea its twu!! :rolleyes:

Yay it is thy truth.
 
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So Spurgeon is really Charles The Baptist??

:rolleyes: Fixed it for ya.
Haha I'd love to hear that story one day. Yeah, I try to read KJV with my preferred version ESV (EaSy Version xD).
Hehehhehe.
My brother likes the NKJV.
I love the KJV! :D It sounds sooo poetic.. :rolleyes:

I didn't appreciate shakespeare in high school, but now I can thanks to the KJV (I think)..
The KJV helped a lot with that. I didn't appreciate Shakespeare very much at all when I was younger, mostly because there are a ton of subtle jokes and puns in his plays that require that you know the language he used in order to catch them.