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7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.


And so begins the coconut jokes.
 
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.


And so begins the coconut jokes.
I expect they were more likely talking about a date palm of some kind. Coconuts were probably unknown in that part of the world at that time. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that some were carried there by swallows.
 
I expect they were more likely talking about a date palm of some kind. Coconuts were probably unknown in that part of the world at that time. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that some were carried there by swallows.

African or European swallows?
 
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