Of Tomatoes and Cucumbers
Cue up Looney Tunes and go to the seventh paragraph at this link (HT Patterico) about Al-Qaeda’s problems with other internal terrorist groups):
“It’s happening daily,†Lt. Col. Keith Gogas said Thursday in an interview at an Army base in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. “Our read on it is that that the more moderate, if you will, Sunni insurgents, are finding that their goals and al-Qaeda’s goals are at odds.â€
American commanders cite al-Qaeda’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaeda has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.
Here we learn (with other supporting links at the comment) that tomatoes are female and cucumbers are male. But of course.
