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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

OF MEN and WOMEN and FRUIT (analogy) ...and it's not about Adam and Eve!!!


Women Are Like Apples and 

      Men Are Like Grapes.


Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

What are men like? Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to enjoy with dinner.

As my friend Guy would say, "Sans malice!" And I would add "without prejudice" towards men or women. There has always been a lot to say about our differences. You can be scientific or factual about the subject. You can choose to present the emotional or rational side of things. You can use humour in a visual or wordplay form. But it all comes down to one thing, we can believe everything that is said or we can laugh about it!

6 comments:

Huguette said...

What does that means " it's up to women to stomp the crap out of them "

Suzanne said...

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Huguette, this way of saying things is very informal and popular, it conveys a message and means that it's up to the woman to make things right or make the man better by her influence or her entrepreneurship.
Crap is a euphemism for shit!
To stomp is when they put the grapes in a barrel and you walk and stomp on them to get their juices out to make the wine. So you remove all the bad parts!

Huguette said...

I see because I didn't understand even if I looked for on the dictionary the words Crap and stomp. "Pas rapport" as my children said.

Suzanne said...

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Try WIKtionary when you can't find in your dictionary.
For the word CRAP you will find:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crap

Huguette said...

I found the words" crap and stomp " in my dictionary but in your sentence, you don't spesk the grapes and the shit.

Suzanne said...

Huguette,
For the first time I don't understand what you want to say.
Give it to me in French and I will give you the right word oder and translation.