<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Nov 17, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Jesse Manoogian <<a href="mailto:boyfromtheabyss@yahoo.com">boyfromtheabyss@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A pickle is basically a pickled cucumber. Don't we describe a lot of things as "cucumber-shaped" in English?</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I more often have heard things described in English as <u>cigar</u>-shaped.</div><div><br></div><div>A <b>peb'ot</b> is described as “torpedo-shaped” in <i>Klingon for the Galactic Traveler.</i> People are having fun here with the idea that the underwater ship came first, and the pickled <b>peb'ot</b> was named for it rather than the other way around.</div><br><div dir="ltr">-- ghunchu'wI'</div></body></html>