Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Welcome to my blog

Perhaps you would like to know what my blog name means. Not much, really. My favorite number is 19. "Plunkett" may cause more confusion. I refer here not to the nineteenth-century Tammany Hall politico, George Washington Plunkitt:


I do appreciate that he was named this, but I'm not really into the nineteenth century. Truly wacky times.

No, I refer to "plunketts" (note different spelling), a name I came up with as a kid to describe the individual teardrops of pulp within citrus fruits. I liked to eat grapefruit one plunkett at a time.



Where the diagram above says "juice sac," substitute "plunkett."