Gratuitous thread is gratuitous.

7/9/2011 11:18:11 AM

More like upper leg amirite?

7/9/2011 11:19:07 AM

Closer than I'll ever be,

[Edited on July 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM. Reason : ]

7/9/2011 11:20:22 AM

I, for one, think she's fine as hell

7/9/2011 11:27:49 AM

good call on putting the clarification in there

most people aren't aware of who Kate Middleton is

7/9/2011 11:30:22 AM

The prestige of her title and married status enhance the lurid thrill of the perv camera shot. So lay off me. The primary focus of the parenthetical is to contrast that animal drive for that fine ass against her sophisticated culture and unavailability, not to make notification of her identity.

7/9/2011 11:37:11 AM

AHA, sophisticated culture?

Her parents are business people...they own a party planning business.

7/9/2011 12:34:12 PM

They still have millions. That's why I get sort of peeved when she's referred to as a commoner. Yeah, she's not royal, but she's never wanted for anything in her life I'd bet. It's not like they picked the daughter of a school teacher and a nurse who had to pay her own way through university.

7/9/2011 12:36:19 PM

she looked pretty hot (and very gorgeous) in the cowboy clothing (skinny jeans + white frilly buttown down shirt) she was wearing at the rodeo in canada yesterday.

somebody else can google the pics and post here.

7/9/2011 12:38:38 PM

meh :/

7/9/2011 1:16:28 PM

Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me.

7/9/2011 1:18:33 PM

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"It's not like they picked the daughter of a school teacher and a nurse who had to pay her own way through university."

Her mom was originally a flight attendant and previous generations were miners. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/kate-middleton-facts-future-royal-prince-william-fiancee/story?id=12159993 . That's about as common as it's going to get for royalty

Also, she is hot--hotter than her overhyped sister. But she's gotten kinda skinny lately.

7/9/2011 5:27:41 PM

Her official job now is to get preggers, probably have 5 or 6 kids....she should be knocked up within 6 months....

7/9/2011 6:00:42 PM

^^Yeah, and if he'd married the Mom, I'd sing a different tune. As it is, Kate's family controls a company worth $30 million, and has lived a life of mostly luxury (not when compared to the royalty), but it's not a "commoner's life" by any means.

I don't have anything against her, just the whole "rags to riches" mentality, when it's more like "rich to richest."

7/9/2011 6:08:21 PM

"commoner" doesn't mean poor

7/9/2011 7:04:40 PM

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7/9/2011 9:01:35 PM

^ ha ha ha ha ha

7/9/2011 9:04:39 PM

haha, nice. would be awesome if they fell in love with the cowboy life and moved to texas

7/9/2011 9:14:13 PM

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"But she's gotten kinda skinny lately. "

yeah I was just thinking the pressure of being princess seems to be driving her to anorexia

7/9/2011 10:18:18 PM

i heard in passing on npr that she smokes A LOT (cigs) to curb her cravings

7/9/2011 10:23:27 PM

she needs some more meat on them bones

[Edited on July 9, 2011 at 10:24 PM. Reason : lol, meet]

7/9/2011 10:24:13 PM

She does look super hot in that cowgirl outfit

7/9/2011 10:27:45 PM

bet this girl has lots of royal orgasms

7/9/2011 10:32:02 PM

She could use 10lbs. Still very attractive just getting a wee thin.

7/9/2011 10:42:04 PM

what an appropriate thread for this...

i remember reading about coco-de-mers as being the biggest seeds in the guinness book a couple of decades ago, but i had no clue they looked like this!

pretty informative article, especially for those into exotic wildlife/botany/biology.

Royal honeymooners' 'erotic' Seychelles souvenir

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9538059.stm

click link for 2 more pics of the plant and the nuts.



"With the outer husk removed, the coconut closely resembles a female human bottom"

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"By Tim Ecott Seychelles The recently married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were presented with an unusual souvenir by the Seychelles government after their honeymoon to the country - a rare and mysterious coconut famed for its erotic shape. The forest groans, squeaks and rattles. Even a light breeze causes the giant fronds of the coco-de-mer trees to rub against one another with a sound like the creaking rigging of an old wooden schooner. Underfoot there is the loud crunching of huge dead leaves. “ With the outer husk removed, the coconut closely resembles a female human bottom ” Here in the Vallee de Mai, on Praslin, the Seychelles' second largest island, the dominant plant is the coco-de-mer palm tree. I have visited the Vallee de Mai many times in the past 20 years, but each time I go I learn something new. This time I am accompanied by Dr Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, an ecologist who studies the networks of life supported by the palms. "There's nowhere on earth like the Vallee de Mai," he enthused, as we stepped through the thick dry leaf litter. "All this dead matter prevents any other plants taking root and competing with the cocos-de-mer. "Look how the giant leaves blot out the sky above. They starve all the other plants of light too. It's almost like they have a strategy." The Vallee de Mai is probably the most visited tourist spot in the Seychelles. People flock here to see the coco-de-mer, partly because it is the biggest seed in the world - a true botanical curiosity - and partly because it is, well, best described as a rude shape. Aphrodisiac On the tree, the coconut is a giant green orb, but inside, with the outer husk removed, it closely resembles a female human bottom. Not surprisingly, coco-de-mer nuts sell for high prices and you need an export permit to take them out of the Seychelles. The erotic connotations of the coco-de-mer are obvious whether or not you are a royal honeymooner. In China, the meat of the nut is taken as an aphrodisiac. And as if the nut's rotund charms were not enough, the trees themselves are clearly male and female. While the female trees bear the nuts - which grow for about seven years before they fall - the male trees grow enormous catkins, giant phallus shaped tubes studded with hundreds of delicate yellow flowers that give off a musky odour. In Seychelles creole, the fruit is called "coco fesse" which crudely translates as "bum nut". For Chris Kaiser-Bunbury, the charms of the coco-de-mer go well beyond schoolboy humour. "What the tourists often don't appreciate," he says as we stand surrounded by the towering palms, "is how many other unique species live here, supported by these amazing trees". “ A Seychelles legend says that during a full moon the coco-de-mer trees walk around the forest in order to mate ” He shows me giant white slugs crawling along the smooth stems of the leaves, fat brown coco-de-mer snails that sit on the tree trunks, and high up in the palm crowns, he spots several bright green geckos that feed off the tree's nectar and flowers. And then, so well camouflaged that I struggle to identify it as an animal at all, we spot a giant bronze gecko found only on the male trees. Several of these creatures, including a breed of fruit fly that lives on the rotting husks of the coco-de-mer, are found nowhere else in the world but here in the Vallee de Mai. Air of mystery The coco-de-mer remains mysterious. No-one knows whether the palms are pollinated by the wind, or by an insect or even indeed by a gecko. Their lifespan is unknown, some say 500 years, or more. And why are they found nowhere else on earth? The granitic islands of Seychelles are known for their lush green slopes. But the Vallee de Mai is a dry forest, and the leaf litter formed by the dead coco-de-mer leaves is a tinder box. The Seychelles Islands Foundation which looks after the Vallee has cut a series of fire-breaks along the hillsides. Part of the reason it is so dry is that the palms have evolved their giant leaves to capture as much as 98% of any rain that falls. The leaves funnel the water straight down towards the base of the palm, ensuring that no other plants benefit. "Most plants try to disperse their seeds away from the 'parent'," Chris Kaiser-Bunbury told me. "But it seems that coco-de-mer nuts tend to germinate naturally very close to the mother tree. "That's because she's found an ideal spot for growing, and the offspring will have a higher survival rate if they don't stray too far." And indeed, with the nuts weighing 50lb (23kg) or more, there is no way for the wind or animals to disperse them anyway. A Seychelles legend says that during a full moon the coco-de-mer trees walk around the forest in order to mate. That is how they produce their erotically shaped "love nuts". Standing under the dense, green canopy, with the lilting cry of the black parrot echoing through the trees, it does seem like a place where stranger things have happened."

8/4/2011 2:32:13 AM