[Riff] No. And it isn't a chocolate-covered billiard ball either.

I'm only doing this because the server has been down all morning....STRESSED!!

[Chalky] Spat is not the word I would have used, friendly banter seems more appropriate somehow. Do we agree though that the classification is purely on composition, and method of production doesn't come into it?

[Inkspot] To answer your Q as a whole. Not likely.
[Raak] No.
[rab] By-products could have practical applications.

[rab] Agreed - I should have prefaced the word 'spat' with the adjective 'friendly'. It was pure mischief on my part and I really should have remember that such posturing doesn't necessarily transfer well on to the screen. [Material composition - yes, which is why I still think milk should have in part an 'animal' classification :-)]

[Boolbar] The food one.

[Boolbar] Sorry - now where are my specs?

[Chalky] Using dictionary.com :
A plant cultivated for an edible part or the edible part of such a plant - No.
A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant - Yes

As in an oak tree rather than oak.

The public library - such an oasis of calm.

Ha, nice to see I'm not the only one capable of starting minute pedantic arguments. See, everything is mineral really, and animal and vegetable are just more or less arbitrarily defined subsets of it, aren't they?

[Kim] Unrelatedly, some friends and I once spent a lunchtime trailing after Michael Howard surreptitiously through Folkestone town centre. Our stalking attempt was foiled when he drove off in a very flash car. Curses!

[Inkspot] Yes.
[Kim] Great Guess! But No.
[Raak] Yes.
[Breadmaster] Taking your 'Oak Tree' senario. I was thinking of a single thing like "An Oak Tree" as opposed to "All Oak Trees" or "Some Oak Trees", but I would give the chair to any of those three as they would be close enough.

Shame its not a Shrubbery! I want a shrubbery.

[Lib]Don't we all? :)

[rab] YES!
[Lib] No.
[snorgle] No.

Bugger, off for the weekend so probably won't get this one...

[rab] It can be found in the UK but AFAIK isn't a native (except possibly scotland?).
[Raak] Yes.

[Btd] No. But I suppose it could be used as one.

*Sings* "Ohhh, aahm a lumberjack and aahm OK, aah sleep all night and aah work all day!"

[snorgle,Kim,Raak] - No, to all of you. Strange that is the second Monty Python reference (clue?)

As in 'Holly Grail' and 'Hollywood Bowl". ... :-)

How to recognise trees from quite far away.

OJVVNBVJKNNJNHVJ

Well done.

Goddammit it, Snorgle must have it. Ghfhj's guess was pretty good though.

Episode 12B. How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away. No. 1. The Larch. The Larch. - congrats to snorgle! Take it away . . . . .

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