Needed: Coconut Pluckers. Plenty of Work Available.- December 28, 2007 Looking for an outdoors job Enjoy climbing coconut palm trees The Hindu News reports that there is a severe shortage of coconut pluckers in Kerala. Kerala, 'the land of coconuts' is hit by acute shortage of tree climbers and farmhands,...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000097.html Former TV Star Drives Around w Coconut in Front Seat- December 28, 2007 Hey, whatever. Elsewhere you wouldn't care to know. But here at the Coconut Blog, this is news. Current has-been, former TV star pinup girl reportedly drives around Palm Beach, FL, with a coconut in her front seat, simply because...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000096.html Meet Harry S Truman, the Coconut- December 28, 2007 If you go visit the Harry S Truman Presidential Library between now and January 4th, one of the exhibits you'll be able to see is the coconut carved into the head of the former president himself. It's all part...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000095.html Coconuts Washing Cars- December 18, 2007 CNET News has a story about "The waterless car wash", a liquid you spray on your car to attract dirt, then wipe off later. Lucky Earth Products has come up with a liquid, called Green Earth Waterless Car Wash,...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000094.html Scaring Kids with Coconuts- December 18, 2007 This one's pretty original . . . a newspaper story about making a kid believe that a coconut was a shrunken head: " Being the mischievous big sister, I lived to taunt my brother. Once when my grandmother purchased a...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000093.html World's First Climate Change Refugees Leave Island Due to Rising Sea Levels- December 18, 2007 A followup to this Coconut Blog entry from 2005: Grim story of rising sea levels in the Carteret Islands... "For drinking all we can rely on now is rainwater and coconut juice, but even the coconut trees are dying. You...http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000092.html |