<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c337bc5-994c-459d-b8ea-a8b16ac9d054/72512E03-4718-4FC4-9392-12589E6D599E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pingmag.jp/2007/07/12/strange-watermelon/" href="http://pingmag.jp/2007/07/12/strange-watermelon/" style="font-size: 11px;">pingmag.jp</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2007/07/12/strange-watermelon/">Japanese watermelons are no longer <EM>round</EM>!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2007/07/12/strange-watermelon/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/480C174B-62C5-4FDB-BFD2-0ACA7BB63000" alt="Funny Shaped Japanese Watermelons" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2007/07/12/strange-watermelon/">Watermelons in interesting shapes all started with a cubic watermelon that a farmer in the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagawa_Prefecture">Kagawa</A> prefecture grew about 20 years ago. 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