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Koohii stories:

1) [erikkusan] 19-3-2006(187): Under the eaves of the house the poor family has potate plants.

2) [Immacolata] 23-4-2006(84): Very good image Erik. To help those who struggleded with this, the eaves of a house is usually the bit where you hang the roof gutter along, usually made of zinc or plastic and shaped as a half-pipe. It catches rain water, so it flows to a drain pipe instead of down onto people and windows. And in this family the potato plants grow along the eaves so the water pours down on them. They are poor. so no gutter.

3) [DrJones] 9-3-2008(45): This kanji means universe, seen here as a roof as that was how it was represented back then the vault of heaven. Today, we know that seen from the universe, our planet has the aspect of a potato, and not a perfect sphere.

4) [DurablePants] 22-6-2006(34): During christmas, since your family is TOO POOR, you hang potatoes off the eaves instead of christmas lights.

5) [igordesu] 13-2-2009(11): Sam at the beginning of the Lord of the Rings was outside the house in the potato bushes when Gandalf was talking with Frodo, even though he denied it: "I wasn't dropping no eaves, sir. Honest!".

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