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gswd on May 27, 2007

Do "corndogs" count?

anti on May 27, 2007

I was at a meeting where we used corn bowls, but they melted when we put in our oatmeal. :(

Forevagrey on May 27, 2007

stupid use of a heroes joke.

debbye on May 27, 2007

i had a couple of pens that were supposed to be made out of corn. they seemed to me, to be plastic, like any of the zillion plastic pens - until i discovered that they were being eaten by a mouse!!!

@heinzelman - shouldn't you correct your second paragraph:

"We're looking for fun loving, tounge n cheek members that want to shuck the system :)"

heinzelman on May 28, 2007

all these VERY funny one liners and yet no new members, cmon guys, join today.

debbye on May 29, 2007

OK !

stop yelling heinzelman! i'm in!!

heinzelman on Jun 30, 2007

Time for the monthly membership drive, please consider joining today, we're 4 strong and full of FUN :)

me2orion on Jul 08, 2007

i'll join, but shouldn't we be "shucking" the system. haha. (i know it's already been brought up. i didn't read debbye's post, i thought of it before i read it. we are too much alike!)

i bought a bottle of some clementine juice a few months ago and the bottle was made from corn. and when i went to rinse it with hot water, it melted and warped. so much for corn-lastic containers. weird stuff, this corn is.

heinzelman on Jul 09, 2007

Corn can be a mysterious mistress lol, thanks for joining

debbye on Jul 09, 2007

wherever i go … proudly, there she is!

iqon on Jul 09, 2007

@heinzelman - your avatar shows American corn. What about corn from other areas (barley, wheat, rye, etc.)?

jmnovak on Jul 09, 2007

@iqon: That would be the 'I like Grain' group, not the 'I like Corn' group... :-p

iqon on Jul 09, 2007

@jmnovak - Nee my friend. The word "corn" was around long before maize was discovered by Europeans. As a young sea pup I was puzzled by references to "corn" in the New Testament since it was not brought to the Old World for another 1500 years. I later discovered the truth about corn, its the locally grown grain, not a particular plant.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines corn as:
Corn \Corn\, n. [AS. corn; akin to OS. korn, D. koren, G., Dan., Sw., & Icel. korn, Goth. ka['u]rn, L. granum, Russ. zerno. Cf. Grain, Kernel.]

Note: In Scotland, corn is generally restricted to oats, in the United States, to maize, or Indian corn, of which there are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping.

jmnovak on Jul 09, 2007

Well, hence my ':-p'; I am at least vaguely familiar with the other uses. However, being North American, I make the Amero-centric claim that corn as maize is most correct, as noted in the Note that you note. :-p (A much more recent Websters puts the American definition before the British definition -- though it's an American dictionary, no surprise there.) As far as I can tell (based on one dictionary definition :-) the use of 'grain' corresponds to the British use of 'corn', so would be more globally appropriate for the general definition...

Something for the pedants to take up; while I like corn in both the American and British senses, I'm not crazy about it! :-)

heinzelman on Jul 11, 2007

I like corn

mvisconte on Jul 11, 2007

My feet have corn(s). Heh. That was corny. Heh. So was that.

sloan on Jul 12, 2007

pop...

iqon on Jul 12, 2007

corny? ye want corny?
Ye corn pones can't be pirates until you are worth more. Ye are no where close to being a
buck an ear.

anti on Jul 12, 2007

ouch

elnitido52 on Jul 12, 2007

Corn or maize (zea mays) is a domesticated plant of the Americas (Mexico). Along with many other indigenous plants like beans, squash, melons, tobacco, and roots such as Jerusalem artichoke, European colonists in America quickly adopted maize agriculture from Native Americans. Crops developed by Native Americans quickly spread to other parts of the world as well.
Over a period of thousands of years, Native Americans purposefully transformed maize through special cultivation techniques. Maize was developed from a wild grass (Teosinte) originally growing in Central America (southern Mexico) 7,000 years ago. The ancestral kernels of Teosinte looked very different from today's corn. These kernels were small and were not fused together like the kernels on the husked ear of early maize and modern corn.
By systematically collecting and cultivating those plants best suited for human consumption, Native Americans encouraged the formation of ears or cobs on early maize. The first ears of maize were only a few inches long and had only eight rows of kernels. Cob length and size of early maize grew over the next several thousand years which gradually increased the yields of each crop.

Eventually the productivity of maize cultivation was great enough to make it possible and worthwhile for a family to produce food for the bulk of their diet for an entire year from a small area. Although maize agriculture permitted a family to live in one place for an extended period of time, the commitment to agriculture involved demands on human time and labor and often restricted human mobility. The genetic alterations in teosinte changed its value as a food resource and at the same time affected the human scheduling necessary for its effective procurement.

Source: Native American History of Corn

debbye on Jul 12, 2007

truthfully … if we really needed more corn, we have iQorn.

anti on Jul 12, 2007

Last year, my venture was listed on the same web page with a local corn maze. A Google search showed: Corn Maze Name........My Phone Number. I got lots of calls and finally found the details so I could help the silly folks who can't click on thru.

They owe me big bucks.

iqon on Jul 12, 2007

@debbye - oh great ye made me monkey laugh so hard he fell of the lamp, if he be hurt bad ye owe for the medical bill.

heinzelman on Jul 12, 2007

another plus for the corn clan is we don't talk funny

iqon on Jul 12, 2007

Aye, but ALL ye talk be corny sounding. Ye hear what me be saying? Arrr, of course ye do, ye be all ears.

Me monkey heard you got in trouble at work because you were always surfing corn sites.

anti on Jul 12, 2007

Ahhh, but the corn squeezins make me talk as funny as anythin'.

heinzelman on Jul 13, 2007

@iqon - sounds like you and your monkey need some alone time, get a room :)

iqon on Jul 13, 2007

Aw SHUCKS, that was funny.

anti on Jul 13, 2007

Settle down there, guys, it is a family show.

heinzelman on Jul 13, 2007

i'm just sayin....I like corn

anti on Jul 13, 2007

Somehow, I believe yer.

iqon on Jul 13, 2007

he started it
did not!
did to!
did not!
did to!
did not!
did to!

debbye on Jul 13, 2007

side bar: i just saw a great corn Ad on TV [i think it's really for Chevy] but … corn is the star!

ok iQon, continue your singular conversation!

heinzelman on Jul 13, 2007

Corn Trivia

elnitido52 on Jul 13, 2007

Facts about CORN

Did you know corn is America's number one field crop? Corn leads all other crops in value and volume of production. Here's some more interesting facts about corn....

Corn Math
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.

A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels.

100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels.

Each year, a single U.S. farmer provides food and fiber for 129 people -
97 in the U.S. and 32 overseas.

In the U.S., corn production measures more than 2 times that of any other crop.

Over 55% of Iowa's corn goes to foreign markets. The rest is used in other parts of the United States.

Corn Products
Your bacon and egg breakfast, glass of milk at lunch, or hamburger for supper were all produced with U.S. corn.

Corn is a major component in many food items like cereals, peanut butter, snack foods and soft drinks.

U.S. researchers have led the way in finding many uses for corn - like in vitamins and amino acids.

Corn is used to produce fuel alcohol. Fuel alcohol makes gasoline burn cleaner, reducing air pollution, and it doesn't pollute the water.

iqon on Jul 13, 2007

A World Without Corn

heinzelman on Jul 13, 2007

all this goodness should make people want to join the corn clan today :)

travisseitler on Jul 13, 2007

Corn (maize) is America's number one field crop because of all the Federal subsidies. Now with ethanol R&D going on, corn is becoming more scarce... which means it costs more... which means dairy farmers' cattle-feed costs are going up... which means milk prices are going up. A lot. So much for ethanol saving us money. ;)

deaf258 on Jul 17, 2007

I hope they don't make gas from corn in the future. If they did, the fallout effect would be that corn would get too expensive to eat! :/

pitcher17 on Jul 17, 2007

But what about the children?
Noone is talking about the children of the corn...

Cliveweda on Jul 17, 2007

.....There be reason them children be left out. Cleaver toting 9-year-olds have only a wee affect on the national economy. They just weed out the suckers who stop in abandoned towns. Aye, an' if we started using corn for fuel, 3rd world countries would REALLY be bad off, 'cause we be rich, and they be poor. AVAST FOR HYDROGEN AN' SOLAR!!!

cornlady on Oct 04, 2008

but did any of you know that corn is the gold of the gods??? why do you think its yellow?isn't corn awesome!!!!?? yeah!wooohooo corn rulez!!