Alfalfabrella is an umbrella with seeds embedded in its outer skin that sprout on a rainy day ready for harvesting when you get home.
-- xenzag, Feb 13 2015

https://s-media-cac...09ecd1162d44de4.jpg [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 14 2015]

Sprout on a rainy day, sure. But needs sunshine to grow n'est pas?

So this needs a thingamajiggy to change the name from alfalfabrelle to alfalfaparasol at a moment's notice.
-- zeno, Feb 13 2015


Rainy one day, sunny the next.
-- xenzag, Feb 13 2015


Bean sprouts take about a week to sprout. Your arm is going to get a bit tried holding up a umbrella for a week.
-- popbottle, Feb 14 2015


<pedantry>

Actually, beans take about a week to sprout; bean sprouts are, by definition, beans that have already sprouted.

</pedantry>

// a umbrella //

Gr. "an umbrella"
-- 8th of 7, Feb 14 2015


"Daddy, why are those people carrying umbrellas in the sunshine?"

"You mean parasols."

"OK, why are those pair of assholes carrying umbrellas?"
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 14 2015


Here - you dropped an 'of'. I thought I heard something rattle.
-- pertinax, Feb 15 2015


As opposed to an indecent English school ?

<aside>

^ missing comma

"Mexican, whereas" …

</aside>
-- 8th of 7, Feb 15 2015



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