FL: Serpents in paradise

[seamusTX]

Celebration, Florida, is a planned community near Disney World that was built from scratch in 1996. It has no slums, strip joints, junk yards, or other undesirable sites. It rate of violent crime is near zero.

It is a functioning town of 11,000 with an elected government and a police force.

The first murder in its history occurred today. A 58-year-old man was found dead on the floor of his residence. Police determined that the death was a criminal homicide.

On Thursday a despondent man barricaded himself in his house and shot himself after shooting at police officers.

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"That kind of thing doesn't happen around here."

Until it does.

- Jim

[WildBill]

"Nothing attracts a serpent like a paradise"
-Stu in Brigham City

[Oldgringo]

A serpent in paradise is where it all started, isn't it. IIRC, it was something to do with an apple?

[seamusTX]

Apples are not mentioned in the Bible. Most likely it was a pomegranate.



I think the apple comes from late Medieval or early Renaissance European paintings, along with fig leaves.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

Apples are not mentioned in the Bible. Most likely it was a pomegranate.



I think the apple comes from late Medieval or early Renaissance European paintings, along with fig leaves.

- Jim

Uh Oh, that brings on a whole lot of other questions.

[WildBill]

Apples are not mentioned in the Bible. Most likely it was a pomegranate.

I think the apple comes from late Medieval or early Renaissance European paintings, along with fig leaves. - Jim

Uh Oh, that brings on a whole lot of other questions.

Pomegranates are devilishly hard to eat.

The hardest fruit upon this planet
Is easily the pomegranate.
I'm halfway through the puzzle game
Of guessing how it got its name.
The pome part turns my cowlick hoary,
But the granite is self-explanatory.

-Ogden Nash

[seamusTX]

Being a nerd, I have to point out that the coconut is the hardest fruit on the planet.

The origin of the name pomegranate is found here: http://www.word-origins.com/definition/pomegranate.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Short version: it comes from the Latin words for apple [with many] seeds. I actually did not know this.

- Jim

[WildBill]

Being a nerd, I have to point out that the coconut is the hardest fruit on the planet. - Jim

That is "poetic" justice.