Friday, June 10, 2005

Useless trivia of the day

The word avocado comes from a native american word that means "testicle."

3 comments:

Bookworm said...

Okay. Now I'll never get that image out of my head.

Michelle said...

Me either! I have a testicle tree in my garden!

heatherfeather said...

reminds me of the time i was in santa fe posing for a funny picture under a sculpture of an antelope and i looked up and saw the antelope had testicles and i shouted something to that same effect much to the surprise of the passers-by. i should have said it had avocados.