March-14th-2006, 01:02 PM
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Breaking AP news
Just saw this on Yahoo:
Woman Shows Off Five-Pound Monster Mango
By KARIN STANTON Tue Mar 14, 7:29 AM ET
When Colleen Porter took her mango to the local grocer, it wasn't to sell it--but to weigh it and show it off. Colleen Porter, already a state mango record holder, has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as growing the world's heaviest mango — 5 pounds, 7 ounces. The monster mango appears to be close to the size of a human head.
Porter, 47, a skin care specialist at Kona Center of Facial Surgery, has a certificate from Guinness to prove the record. She's framed it — in mango wood, of course.
Virginia Easton-Smith, West Hawaii agricultural extension agent for the University of Hawaii, who helped with the submission to Guinness, confirms the record. The fruit had to be weighed and documented two separate times by three people. Independent witnesses verified six weighings.
Porter, who tends a small avocado and mango orchard, also stopped by several local grocery stores to check out her mango on their scales. The record-breaking fruit is a Keitt mango, which typically reach two to three pounds.
"All the people I showed it to at Safeway and Sack 'n' Save were just amazed," she said.
Easton-Smith said the Big Island already is noted for producing the world's biggest jackfruit, but having the world's most massive mango is something special.
"We think it's very cool," she said.
Porter said she has been told a photograph of her mango is a "strong contender" to be included in Guinness's next edition, which goes on sale Jan. 1, 2007. The mango record is not found on the Guinness Web site, which includes only a selection of its 40,000 records.
The mango was picked in mid-October and still sits in Porter's refrigerator.
"We're turning it into a piece of art," she said.
Her husband, Scott, has made a mold from the mango and plans to create a sculpture to be painted by her daughter, Megan, an art major in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Porter, who has moved to a new home in Captain Cook, says she almost gave up her orchard.
"One day, I just didn't know if I wanted to keep it up," she said. " I looked up to the sky for some kind of answer and that's when I first saw it."
The granddaughter of farmers, Porter covered the fruit with a bag to prevent insects, birds and rodents gnawing on it and for two months kept vigil.
One day it just looked ready.
"I climbed the ladder and when I touched it, it fell right into my hands," Porter said.
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Supplementary reading:
Wikipedia entry on mangoes
Genetic anomalies
The human head: what do the measurements mean?
Skin care tips from the Ladies' Home Journal
Captain Cook
Captain Hook
Religious worship, use of bags in
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March-14th-2006, 01:25 PM
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Reevaluating @ 500k
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When you find a lychee as big as a human head, give me a call.
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March-14th-2006, 01:42 PM
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PM me your number, Pete.
 
(Pretty eerie resemblance, btw)
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March-14th-2006, 01:49 PM
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Great, now they have something to feed this thing:
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March-14th-2006, 01:54 PM
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That's not real, is it? (the rabbit)
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March-14th-2006, 01:59 PM
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Those things happen for real, Larry. If only mankind could stay the hell away from such horrific scientific meddling.
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March-14th-2006, 02:09 PM
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Everything in that story is in metric, Mone, so it's clearly a hoax.
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March-14th-2006, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by blawless
Everything in that story is in metric, Mone, so it's clearly a hoax.
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Blawless, you're talking about people who built the Death Star. Don't fuck with them!
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March-14th-2006, 02:15 PM
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That rabbit is incredible. Damn.
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March-14th-2006, 02:40 PM
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De harder dey come...
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That's no ordinary rabbit!
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March-14th-2006, 02:42 PM
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That's no ordinary rabbit!
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A rabbit that special, you don't eat all at once!
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March-14th-2006, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Larry Nagel
That's not real, is it? (the rabbit)
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Thats a German Giant, and its real.
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March-14th-2006, 03:10 PM
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ROTFLMAO! 
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Blawless, re your Attachment (in #1): FYI, here's my customary link. You could learn this process in about 20 seconds.
How to use the IMG function (to post pictures from the Internet)
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March-14th-2006, 04:03 PM
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You know, I saved that and posted it from my computer because it had a pretty odd, code-namey file extension and figured it wouldn't work. But I just tried it and, remarkably, it did--wonderfully well. Who would have thought? I am relieved and I promise I will never, ever post another file directly from my computer. As you know, or you may not know--and I don't mean "you," Bluenoter, specifically, but the posting community here as a whole--I always try to do my best and do things the "right" way, because as experience has proven in many cases, this is often the best way. The simplest way, the easiest way, the most efficient way--these are things of beauty. I am clear on this, at least to the extent I am aware of my actions. Much must be escaping my notice, however! Believe me, I don't set out to do things the "wrong" way, or be a "bad guy," or whatever. But, too often, that is the case. I could tell you stories--stories that would freeze your blood. Why do I do these things? Why can't I be a better person? Was it my mother and her constant pill taking that set me down the wrong path? Was it my stepfather and his mean looks at me--no matter what I did? Why couldn't I do anything right? Why does it always feel like the heavy weight of everything is sitting on top of me, squishing my viscera and my will and making me feel awful and driving me to unspeakable behavior? Why does it all have to be so hard? Is there no escape? Is there nothing to take away this scalding, unbearable pain hammering at me every moment and thwarting any hope I might have to do better, to be better, even a little?
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March-14th-2006, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by blawless
You know, I saved that and posted it from my computer because it had a pretty odd, code-namey file extension and figured it wouldn't work.
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Oh, sorry! I didn't realize that you already knew how to do it the other way. I don't keep track of who knows and who doesn't. 
Re the rest of #15,
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March-14th-2006, 04:25 PM
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Poor woman...look at her hand in post #1. She may have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from repeatedly stroking her mango.
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March-14th-2006, 05:47 PM
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Just getting over my disappointment that the use of the word "mango" in the headline of the initial post was not, in fact, a euphemism.........
Last edited by Jimmy Cantiello; March-14th-2006 at 05:50 PM.
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March-14th-2006, 05:51 PM
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Whoop de freecken do. Every mango in West Africa is the size of your head. During the rainy season, you actually have to watch out for falling mangos, those things can kill you.
I knew a volunteer who tried to eat a XXXXL one, got about 3/4 of the way through it, and with nectar still on his chin, keeled over turning a bright shade of orange. Fever went up to 103 and he was sick for a few days. Gotta be careful of Mango Fever.
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March-14th-2006, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Surfer
Whoop de freecken do. Every mango in West Africa is the size of your head. During the rainy season, you actually have to watch out for falling mangos, those things can kill you.
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I can attest to that. I remember from perusing National Geographic when I was a kid.
Okay, sorry, I'll stop now...............
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March-14th-2006, 06:02 PM
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Paneed rabbitt
mmmmmmmm.....
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March-14th-2006, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by shrugs
Paneed rabbitt
mmmmmmmm.....
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coniglio
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March-14th-2006, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz
Poor woman...look at her hand in post #1. She may have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from repeatedly stroking her mango.
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Kinda sexy though.
She could stroke my mango if she wanted to. 
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