“The meaning of life is a rutabaga.”–Garrison Kiellor
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Here is an existential dilemma if ever there was one. I cannot stand Garrison Kiellor, but I cannot resist jokes about rutabaga. The word rutabaga itself is just too funny; I guess funny won out. Maybe ‘ol Garrison drank some rutabaga-ade before making that terrible movie a few years ago. It must have tasted like-er–well…rutabaga. 😀 For more on rutabaga, including information on national rutabaga month, check out this crazy site… The Rutabagan
The Millennium Conjectures™ 
I thought the answer was 42? Did it get changed during the commercials?
You will have to wait–appropriately enough–for Cosmic Quote #42 to address that.
I think Mangelwurzel *beet* rutabaga all to …..
…what? 😕
google root vegetables…wikipedia lists them…mangelwurzel is in the beet family…and is used as fodder for farm animals…I just liked the name better than rutabaga 🙂
Nothing…N-O-T-H-I-N-G is better than rutabaga. 😛
Literally LOL.
Rutabagas are yummy, but rutabaga-ade?
I have to admit, I’ve had neither. Ever–as far as I know.
my dad grows them, together with potatoes, onions, cabbage, garlic, red beets, and all kinds of other edibles
I saw this picture in my feed and just fell in love with it. Of course it was a post of yours, Mark! You’re one of the few who can appreciate a good word like rutabaga!
I needed to google ‘rutabaga’… and to search for a picture of that vegetable. Even after learning the German name I didn’t know exactly how it looks like 🙂
You think I did? 😉
so why not share with the class… now I have to go and google too. I hate jokes that come with homework.
There is no need to know what one looks like, Elke. It’s such a great word that nothing else matters.
OK – now I understand 🙂 In German the word as such as not as funny – we are missing something. It translates to ‘cabbage turnip’.
I never realized how political the rutabaga is. I just googled songs about rutabagas and my eyes are open now. Seriously, you may not want to go there.
Fifteen comments about rutabaga. Who knew it would be such a popular topic.
Hah! I knew what a rutabaga is without googling it.
I’ll give you four out of five stars for funny words. If you haven’t seen Bulbous Bouffant, it’s worth a google.