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[janewt]

Viv is a big meanie

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[vivian_shaw]

Mandragora spp are mandrakes. I am extremely fond of the mayapple, but calling a mayapple a mandrake is like calling grapes "greenie lumps." It is in one sense a perfectly accurate description but in a larger and more accurate sense irrational.

American robins are mutant thrushes and lousy parents. Which English robins may also be, but they do it while being actual robin robins. SO THERE.

[janewt]

IF I WANT TO CALL IT A MANDRAKE I'MA CALL IT A MANDRAKE

Because that's how common names work.

i'm not sure you deserve a Heinz products cookbook and you definitely don't deserve to see my Podophyllum

[vivian_shaw]

Can I call it a bloodroot, or a pachysandra, or a ground ivy?

Also: my engine compartment contained a rat's nest, your argument is invalid.

[janewt]

You can if you want but you'd be the only one. Lots of people call a Podphyllum a mandrake.

And I just looked it up online--if your engine compartment contained a rat's nest that means your argument is invalid.

[mephron]

Watching this discussion is a sort of tennis match level of amusement, back and forth and back and forth and amused.

[cheezdanish]

I agree wholeheartedly with this input.

[janewt]

If a woman disses your mandrake over IM you gotta call her out on LJ. It's a thing.