Not cucumis but...

Cheers, Tantine!

We all love Cucumis (the website and the fruit itself), and you "translated" our feelings into poetry (which should be a universal language apart).

My congratulations!!

No, Kaf. I'm now in the São Paulo State (which haven't entered in that story), but quite near from Minas Gerais (in fact, I lived there for 25 years). And I LOVE CHEESE (not more than my wife, of course ).

Oh how nice Tantine!!!
I couldn't do something like that!

Nutritional Analysis
1 medium cucumber

Cucumbers are 96% water by weight!

Calories 39
Total Fat (g) 0.4
Carbohydrates 73.8%
Saturated Fat (g) 0.1
Polyunsaturated Fat (g) 0.2 Vitamin C(mg)16
Cholesterol (mg) 0 Vitamin A(iu) 647
Carbohydrate (g) 8.3 Vitamin B6(mg)13
Dietary Fiber (g) 2.4 Vitamin B12(mcg)-Protein (g) 2.1 Thiamin B1(mg).07
Sodium (mg) 6 Riboflavin(mg).07
Potassium (mg) 433 Folacin (mcg) 39.1
Calcium (mg) 42 Niacin (mg) 0.7
Iron (mg) 0.8 Caffeine (mg) 0.0
Zinc (mg) 0.6 Alcohol (g) 0.0

THATHA, WHAT HAVE U STARTED

Sorry, I got a bit sidetracked by Porfyhr's very cute zucchini (um - I mean the picture of course - I have no knowledge of Porfyhr's zucchini or any other part of his anatomy).

Back to cucumbers. In Turkish, there are two words for cucumber, "salatalık" and "hıyar". The first one is a Turkish ending on a borrowed word from Italian, I think. The second one is from Farsi (I think), and can also be used to mean a rube or country bumpkin - like a Mineiro, I guess.

BTW, goncin, I didn't mean that you were a Carioca - I meant whoever wrote that joke (the original).

Kaf,

As the Curitibanos are the only who arrive alive to the end of the story, I think to myself that it was written by Casper himself...

Well Laura, we are talking about the whole family and also what could be part of this conversation... hehe. It's a big salad...
Brazil Graphic with the locations mencioned by us today:

What I have started? hehehehe...
I'm a little dizzy now, because when I post a message, three new appear! hehhe

Kafetzou,

my cucumber is not a Zucchini...
It should be a cucumber according to the text.

One could say Cucumber or Cuke.
But not in norwegian or swedish! "Cuke" is sth else, likt the chili that Tantine showed earlier.

This is an Armenian cucumber

Thatha,

For real, I'm a little bit above and rightward of the letter "P" of "SP" (Franca/SP).

Nice map, anyway (I thought I knew how to use Photoshop )

It's a lot like here in Canada. I live on the West Coast,where it's quite warm and rarely goes below freezing, but most of Canada is famous for its ice and snow (and hot, humid, buggy, short summers). I live a couple of blocks from the beach, and I have tomatoes and passion flowers growing on my deck.



So other Canadians call Vancouver "Lotusland"! They think all we do all day is smoke pot and lie on the beach, which is only partially true.

Hey - does anybody know how to re-size a floating image?

Owowowowow!
What is going on arround here?
This is going very fast.

The stereotypical Curitibano is caspertavernello
Eu não sou estereótipo de nada!

Oops... I don't remember your city... that's why... If you know Ceará, you can see that I put my arrow in the right place... I think that São Paulo's arrow is poiting to the São Paulo city? Am I right?

You can't resize the images... I do that by uploading the images to my Photobucket account... and put the link at their thumbnails, you can do that in google images too.

Porfyhr, your image with the eyes and hands, etc., is definitely a zucchini!

It was not written by me, because I wouldn't be silly enough to joke with what is supposed to be our accent (none I know speakes like that - leite quente, wich is a stereotype)

This is the kind of joke we receive on the mail and it was just to illustrate what I said about 'start to melt down' when it gets 34°C.

There are colder places than here in Brasil.

Oh - that's too bad about re-sizing images - that means the only ones we can use as floating images are relatively small ones.

Yes, like Rio Grande do Sul (RS - on the map ).
But it was funny... hehehe...

Like the picture of my previous avatar: Santa Catarina.