I find the group very interesting also, you missed my point. I should have said bulbs and climate and saffron and other plants, I love them all. Sorry I am just complaining about boring emails that talk about none of these things. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim McKenney <jimmckenney@starpower.net> To: 'Pacific Bulb Society' <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Saffron - rejected messages > Angela said " Can't everyone just talk about bulbs? > I find these conversations boring." > > Angela, we are talking about bulbs. > > For some people, "bulb" means those little globular things you plant in the > ground. > > For some people, "bulb' means those plants which grow from bulbs. > > For some people, "bulb' means corm, tuber or who knows what. > > For some people, "bulb" means the flowers produced by plants which grow from > bulbs. > > For some people, talking about bulbs means talking about their history, or > their diseases, or their relationships, or their economic uses, or their > culinary uses, or their literature, or the esthetic responses we have to > bulbs or any of the other aspects of the human experience which touch on > bulbs. > > For some people, "bulb" means light bulb. > > You get the point, don't you? No one of us unilaterally defines the concept > bulb. We're a group, and our interests range across many fields. > > Some of us are very narrowly focused, some of us celebrate the role of bulbs > in our lives with a much greater degree of catholicity. > > Don't we all have something valuable to bring to the table? > > The best way to have lots of posts which you will enjoy reading is to get > the ball rolling on a topic which interests you. Are you contributing to the > repartee? If not, you have only yourself to blame if you don't find the > responses interesting. > > Try it; you may be very pleasantly surprised. I'm very favorably impressed > by the depth and breadth of the knowledge and enthusiasm in this group. > > Jim McKenney > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I'm about bulbed-out > for the day. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >