From: jkapllan@world.std.com (Jeffrey Kaplan)
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.humor.oracle.d] Re: What does this have to do with us?
Date: 17 Aug 1998 08:58:36 GMT

Subject: Re: What does this have to do with us? 
From: Lars Raeder Clausen <elascurn@humulus.daimi.aau.dk>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d

Paul Kelly can witness that Jeff Zeitlin on Wed, 12 Aug 1998 wrote:

> =46or various obscure reasons, I was looking through a book that
> describes plants of various types.  One of the plants it
> describes is a "rhododendron".
> 
> What do large leafy plants have to do with this froup?

Rhododendron \Rho`do*den"dron\, n. [E. "rhod-o-dendron", literally 'a Rhod
from Dendron', VA; {rhod} rec.humor.oracle.d + of + {Dendron}] (Bot.)  A
genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and
remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; also, a denizen of rhod with
access to beautiful breasts (origins of this meaning unknown).

-Lars "But I didn't find gullible" Clausen