A Pair Of Pear Peeves

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(Moderators want paragraphs no more than three lines. Wow, just wow.)

Anyway:

Bartletts ripen quickly but after 1-3 days they are overripe. They are mushy and brown inside.

Anjous are picked too soon; they are green rocks. If you palpate them in the store and they have some “give,” they will ripen, but these amt. To 10% of what is displayed. The remaining 90% do not ripen.

Bummer.
 

Bartletts my favorite. Eating at just right time requires careful watch. I eat while pale yellow with slightly green coloring at tips. If allowed to ripen to beautiful picture perfect full yellow, it will be mushy and over ripe.

I've also wondered about instructions for paring paragraph length. I've seen these before and have also seen posters follow instructions explicitly and break post into several 2 1/2 line paragraphs, even breaking mid-sentence to meet requirements. My inner English teacher rebels.

I do appreciate the effort to make reading of posts easier by avoiding long, unbroken essays covering many different thoughts and subjects but my thoughts don't come in regulated 2 1/2 line bits.
 
I was gifted a Harry & David fruit box several years ago and the pear was like eating liquid sunshine. All the fruit great but pear super special
 
jujube said:
Have you ever had pears from Harry & David? They cost their weight in gold, but they are so good. I understand they have almost exclusive rights to these particular pears; they are grown mostly for them.

I'm not sure exactly what kind of pear they are but they are unbelievably juicy and tasty.
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I am not a big pear fan but one holiday season we got two boxes of H&D pears. Wow! Best pears I ever ate, no exaggeration.
 
gennie said:
I've also wondered about instructions for paring paragraph length. I've seen these before and have also seen posters follow instructions explicitly and break post into several 2 1/2 line paragraphs, even breaking mid-sentence to meet requirements. My inner English teacher rebels.

I do appreciate the effort to make reading of posts easier by avoiding long, unbroken essays covering many different thoughts and subjects but my thoughts don't come in regulated 2 1/2 line bits.
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Along with your inner English teacher, my elementary school nuns also rebel while rolling over in their graves. Next thing you know, we'll need to write one and two sentence paragraphs like many in the news print media do.
 
Yes, Harry + David sends out a delicious Anjou. I'm expecting my late wife's niece to send me her usual package of them this Xmas. They have a unusual taste but soooo good.
 
My Grandma would can Kieffer pears that she picked along the roadside. They were best if picked green and allowed to ripen off the tree

My Grandpa found the perfect hiding place for the ones he wanted to eat. I had a wooden sandbox that had 4 triangles of wood on each side for a seat. He would shove them under the seats and stuff dry leaves around them. The squirrels and other small animals never found them and they ripened perfectly.
 
Damaged Goods said:
(Moderators want paragraphs no more than three lines. Wow, just wow.)
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Ideally no more than 3 lines, 3 lines is fine, 4 lines isn't forbidden. I just don't want to see a long post in one paragraph. Do you enjoy reading a big chunk of text?

BTW, your post is only 3 lines, you can simply post it as one paragraph.
 
gennie said:
I've also wondered about instructions for paring paragraph length. I've seen these before and have also seen posters follow instructions explicitly and break post into several 2 1/2 line paragraphs, even breaking mid-sentence to meet requirements. My inner English teacher rebels.
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3 lines is ideal, 4 or 5 lines is also OK. Of course you don't have to write broken posts in order to follow my suggestion. I used to see a lot of very long posts in one paragraph, I find it very hard to read.

On the other hand, it would be quite unusual to me if a paragraph has to be 5 lines or longer. On my laptop, 4 lines is about 100 words,
 
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