Re: FAQs n stuff was Re: [MacPerl] another newbie question

[Ken Williams <ken@forum.swarthmore.edu>]

robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
>>Shuck, "shucks" POD (for some mysterious reason Matthias used an ear
>>of corn as an Icon).
>I wondered about this too and came to the conclusion that when you strip
>the leaves and detrious off from around an ear of corn this is the meaning
>of "to shuck".

Yeah, "shuck" is used more generally to mean taking the leaves off corn cobs,
or taking those green walls off pea pods, (PODs), oysters, etc.  Makes sense, I
think.  Kind of a cute name.


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  Ken Williams                             Last Bastion of Euclidity
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