Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

OK, certainly not as sophisticated and hoiyalicious as the previous Whatzit? but here is another for your consideration, if you please, guyz, though it is not as obvious as it might seem.....

Looks like a bag of some kind of fruit or veggie you get at the market.

Nectarines?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, certainly not as sophisticated and hoiyalicious as the previous Whatzit? but here is another for your consideration, if you please, guyz, though it is not as obvious as it might seem.....

Looks like a bag of some kind of fruit or veggie you get at the market.

True. But that's just part of the story.

[Roy]

Is the fruit from Japan?

[chuck]

A bag of some kind of citrus fruit. Based on the size of the fruit relative to the netting they look to be about the size of softballs. Some kind of grapefruit? Amanatsu or Pomelo?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

These are, certainly, intelligent replies. However, the precise nature of the contents of the bag is only a detail of the story.

[chuck]

What was "the rest of the story" about the branch line in SW Georgia?

Regarding the bag of fruit, citrus is pretty traditional "Christmas" gift and also for Chinese New Year. The later is usually reserved for smaller seedless fruit in the Mandarin family (actual Mandarin's or Satsumas).

[Rufus T. Firefly]

These are, certainly, intelligent replies. However, the precise nature of the contents of the bag is only a detail of the story.

Ah! Then these are what you use to either (1) pacify bears with by offering them to the bear or (2) you use the entire bag to strike the bear and render it helpless as it drops into a state of total hysterical laughter having been pelted with citrus........

[rogruth]

These are, certainly, intelligent replies. However, the precise nature of the contents of the bag is only a detail of the story.

Ah! Then these are what you use to either (1) pacify bears with by offering them to the bear or (2) you use the entire bag to strike the bear and render it helpless as it drops into a state of total hysterical laughter having been pelted with citrus........

ROTFLOL

[chuck]

Ditto on the last part about being rendered helpless by being in a state of total hysteria.

[Roy]

These are, certainly, intelligent replies. However, the precise nature of the contents of the bag is only a detail of the story.

Was it given as a gift by some VIP, like General MacArthur?

[robert.]

Oh my darling clementine. Hanging some stockings by the chimney with care?

[webenda]

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, money was tight, and many families simply didn’t have the means to buy gifts. Instead, it was such a treat, even a luxury, to find things like a sweet orange or some walnuts in your stocking on Christmas.

[webenda]

Another explanation for the tradition of placing an orange is a stocking stretches back hundreds of years to St. Nicholas, who was born in what is now present-day Turkey. He inherited a large sum of money, but devoted his life to helping others, and eventually became a bishop.

According to the story, St. Nicholas learned of a poor man who wasn’t able to find suitors for his three daughters because he didn’t have money for a dowry. St. Nicholas traveled to the house, and tossed three sacks of gold down the chimney for each of the dowries. The gold happened to land in each of the girls’ stockings which were hanging by the fire to dry. The oranges we receive today are a symbol of the gold that was left in the stockings.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What was "the rest of the story" about the branch line in SW Georgia?

Regarding the bag of fruit, citrus is pretty traditional "Christmas" gift and also for Chinese New Year. The later is usually reserved for smaller seedless fruit in the Mandarin family (actual Mandarin's or Satsumas).

Funny man. AND intelligent. Nice.
But no, not quite on the Georgian scene.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

These are, certainly, intelligent replies. However, the precise nature of the contents of the bag is only a detail of the story.

Ah! Then these are what you use to either (1) pacify bears with by offering them to the bear or (2) you use the entire bag to strike the bear and render it helpless as it drops into a state of total hysterical laughter having been pelted with citrus........

YOU, on the other hand, still need help.