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Plums aplenty hereabouts. $0.99/lb (on sale, regular price $1.49).

A plethora of plums here too…Pluots of many stripes as well.

OT, but Awe-some.

Stoaty wielding the ban hammer would be even more awesome.

Who knew you couldn’t run a society that pays line workers to stay home.

*raises, waves hand*
*looks around*
*sees bazillion waving hands*

Fruiterers, Pruners & Pickers – sounds like a law firm.

Obviously ‘fruiterer’ wasn’t a trade name, like wagoner, smith, carter, cooper because there don’t appear to be any sur names as such.

so it’s a new affectation, like, uh, vaccinated.

And who knew that if you got “vaccinated” you could come down with the disease anyway, that’s not the way it was when we wuz kids.

SCIENCE get off my lawn!

So let me get this straight – even if they can get a plum job people would rather take free money from the government?

Well, duh Some Veg – FREE! FREE!

The government will just sell some more, uh, whatever product it is they sell, or provide more billable service for whatever billable services they sell.

It’s easy if you REALLY understand economics!
Plus, printing presses and official special “paper” to print whatever cash they need.

@Mitch…I think we engaged them back in the 80’s.

Welp, we failed and now His Governorship is turning the screws another notch. I’m sure he has something really nasty up his sleeve for the Northern red counties who fomented the rebellion. You can bet the farm that he will run for the Oval Office.

@Durned…interesting etymology. While Fruiterer isn’t a surname, Coster is. I assume y’all have read Simon Winchester’s “The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words” (aka The Professor and the Madman)?

BTW-Winchester’s “The Map that Changed the World” is a good read for a cold afternoon in front of the fire too.

I sure hope we still have people, like William Smith, who are looking for answers outside the prevailing wisdom box, not approbation of the woke mob..

I have not read The Professor And The Madman, nor The Map That Changed The World, but thanks to you , Annonymous, I am about to! I just purchased both!

I see that the word has been around quite a while, and can be found in the very best places!

SHALLOW:
The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break Skogan’s head at the court-gate, when a’ was a crack not thus high: and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray’s Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! and to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

— Wm. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act III, Scene II (1597)

Uncle Al said “Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer,

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