<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/29/2002 9:23:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gerd.syllwasschy@web.de writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">They are talking about cucumbers all right, but the bug is an "augur-nosed<BR>
pickle hater", a menace to the "pickle crop". This puzzles me a bit. I mean,<BR>
you don't harvest pickles, do you? You first harvest cucumbers and then<BR>
pickle them, I would imagine. Even in the rural parts.<BR>
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not too many farms in the non-rural parts....<BR>
right, yes to be accurate it would have to be a "cucumber hater" insect...<BR>
but that would slow the pace of the story.<BR>
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steven rowe</FONT></HTML>