From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Well of Miriam
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:36:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Aug 3, 2005, at 4:04 PM, dicconf wrote:

> Cactus is a new world plant, however.  I remember Willy Ley being
> thankful
> that, when a Sicilian sat down on a cactus, he didn't know where it
> originally came from.
>
> -- Dick Eney

Really?  Native Israelis are called sabras, named after a desert
cactus.  Was that cactus imported from the Americas?  Or is that plant
not actually a cactus?

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow