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Glow in the dark roses?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Started conversation Oct 24, 2012
I've just been offered these by online florists.
http://www.tescofreshflowers.com/newsltes5/product/halloween-treats/glow-in-the-dark-roses/?cm_mmc=newsletter-_-newsltes5-_-october-_-glowroses
Look away if you have any taste whatsoever.
Mind you, I seriously thought 'I wonder if they deliver to Spain?' then they could go onto my husband's grave. I say grave but really it's a sort of walled cemetery. A niche. Dia de los muertos is coming up and I shall not be there to clean and provide fresh flowers. I think K would have appreciated the black humour of having eery roses.
*glum*
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 24, 2012
How, er, scary.
Do you think they are just painted with phosphorescent paint, or is evil gene-splicing going on? How Frankenflower are these?
I agree, though : wouldn't we wish to give our loved ones a laugh? My late aunt, whose birthday was Halloween, would probably be amused.
Glow in the dark roses?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Oct 24, 2012
I think they are like dyed flowers, you know, those ultra bright chrysanthemums that you see for sale. Probably soaked in a chemical that fluoresces.
Or perhaps they really grew like that!! I hadn't actually thought of that much.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Oct 24, 2012
That's astonishing!
I have seen flowers in Tescos, fake coloured, covered in glitter, and thought them tacky. If these dayglo roses were natural I'd think them beautiful. I'll keep an eye out for these
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Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' Posted Oct 24, 2012
Would Tesco's deliver something to Spain or doesn't the European Union really happen in the UK? Or would delivery costs be excessive?
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Websailor Posted Oct 24, 2012
In the Daily Mail today:
When the variety of flowers called Avalanche are charged with natural or electric light they give off an eerie green glow in the darkness
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220972/Scientists-create-eerie-glow-dark-flowers-time-Halloween.html#ixzz2AFB64c00
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Not sure if you folks can get the web sites where you are.
Websailor
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 24, 2012
AHA! They're not admitting how they do it.
We suspect Dr Frankenstein has been at work.
Thanks for that link, Webbie.
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Websailor Posted Oct 24, 2012
Well you can't blame them really, it's spooky, and expensive. Not usually in favour of gimmicks but my curiosity is aroused, though not my card
Should have asked for some for my birthday
Websailor
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 24, 2012
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KB Posted Oct 24, 2012
They make me want to scatter them at the feet of holy statues to make people think they're in the throes of religious ecstacies.
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Oct 24, 2012
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 24, 2012
Oooooh, fibre optics
I used to work at a department store on Saturdays in the early 70s, on the lighting department, and we used to sell these http://api.ning.com/files/QyoiFsEKGt98jZaGsdE-9dQ5qaLwgX9A0lKvQxKiizGHbC7eA3B2G2qioxSoQhRcuv-MhBOo3KdmUm8lG64fmcRQqeAGW*Ti/galaxy4.jpg
It was either made by, or sold under the name of, the same people who made Astro (lava) Lamps, Crestworth, and it was called the Jupiter and it changed colour and it was far more classy than any of the other fibre optic lamps we sold I wanted one
My Saturday wages ($1.35 for eight hours, after NI), were never quite enough to afford one, although I might have been able to if I hadn't squandered my money at the boozer of a Saturday night
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 24, 2012
Lanza, you don't need to tidy your husband's grave. Just think of him, as I'm sure you do.
I suspect the flowers are made by standing normal flowers in phosphorescent liquid which they absorb into their petals through the stalk. The phosphorescence works in the same way as on the hands of a watch, by absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. It tends to be slightly radioactive, but in such small doses that no one minds.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 25, 2012
There's something y here - literally...
I think Dmitri is on to something. I know evil s have experimented with taking genes from fluorescent (like you will find at the bottom of the oceans) and put them into other of Bob's creations
This could very well be the result of such experiments
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 25, 2012
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You can call me TC Posted Oct 25, 2012
Assuming that Gnomon's method is right, which is how I would have assumed they did it, why does it only work with Avalanche and not any other white roses? Or does it? There is no indication of how long they glow - Does the blossom outlive the glow? Does the glow outlive the blossom, Cheshire cat-style?
I am reminded of Sheldon's glowing night-light fish (TBBT), or the glowing rabbit in the Hound of the Baskervilles (the Mark Gatiss version)
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Oct 25, 2012
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- 1: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 2: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 3: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 4: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 5: Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' (Oct 24, 2012)
- 6: Websailor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 7: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 8: Websailor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 9: Sol (Oct 24, 2012)
- 10: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Oct 24, 2012)
- 11: KB (Oct 24, 2012)
- 12: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Oct 24, 2012)
- 13: Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. (Oct 24, 2012)
- 14: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Oct 24, 2012)
- 15: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 24, 2012)
- 16: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Oct 25, 2012)
- 17: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Oct 25, 2012)
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- 19: You can call me TC (Oct 25, 2012)
- 20: Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. (Oct 25, 2012)
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