What do you plant to get seedless watermelon or seedless grapes?

In response to last week’s question, "What do you plant to get seedless watermelon or seedless grapes?", my friend Stuart rebuffed, "This question is PITiful. Actually, all you have to do is dig a pit in the watermelon patch." My neighbor Al also challenged the premise by writing, " That's like saying what kind of dinosaur gave us unleaded gas."

While my comedic friend Bruce thought that to get "seedless means you use less seed", my dad's beach buddy Bob concluded, "You must use stem cells."

My videographer friend Ivan observed, "Seedy people do seedy things, thus a seedy farmer produces seedy watermelon. Therefore, it is not what is planted, but who is planting it. BTW: I met a great farmer one day, he was out standing in his field!"

My running buddy Tony concluded, "Seedless watermelon come from a genetically deprived seed or from a genetically enhanced seed. It's all in the perspective." My former colleague Chris knows that it requires "a chemist, a geneticist, a farmer, 2 lab coats, a pair of overalls, a case of test-tubes and a bunch of manure... Water regularly and read it the period table of elements at night until the fruit ripens nicely."

"If I have to explain this, it's a shame because that just means technology has taken over our lives so much we can't interact with indviduals anymore," my friend Chris L wrote, "so here goes: You plant love. You see when a mommy watermelon and a daddy watermelon love each other so very much..."
My organizational mgmt guru friend Marya thinks, "you use salt for watermelon and wine for grapes." However, my Parrothead friend Sam wrote, "Isn't it obvious? You plant the lonely remains of the watermelon rind or grape skins (the part you take off for little ones). It is the perfect mixture of nothingness to yield 'sterile' fruit... I think I have been working on my thesis defense too long..."

And to put this in to perspective, my birthday bud Jon advised, "As Kansas and Georgetown (and now Hal and Alison's alum Syracuse) fans realized last week, perhaps seeds aren't as important as they seem to be."

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Live well...laugh often and heartily….be happy, have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!

Hal

Happy Passover to my Jewish family and friends, and may you remember the chant for the week, "Let my people go." ;-)