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Trees are dangerous. Kids find them to be lots of fun. They like to climb high in them and do dangerous things.

Only the government can protect your children from the dangers inherent in trees.

So true, if they spent too much time climbing trees, they'll grow up to be tree-huggers! Best to chop them down and turn them into newpaper before they cause any lasting harm.

choff wrote:So true, if they spent too much time climbing trees, they'll grow up to be tree-huggers! Best to chop them down and turn them into newpaper before they cause any lasting harm.

Good idea except that I don't think it is possible to turn kids into newspaper.

Don't forget that trees are the leading cause of Smog.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866445/posts

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/04/q3/0927-trees.htm

Last fall I had some friends visit up at the cabin. The day was a bit windy. We went for a hike and came back to find a tree had fallen within feet of their car.

I converted the tree to biofuel.

Scalziand, it has been known for a great many years that the blue haze which gives the Blue Ridge Mountains their name is essentially tree-induced smog.

Tom Ligon wrote:Last fall I had some friends visit up at the cabin. The day was a bit windy. We went for a hike and came back to find a tree had fallen within feet of their car.

I converted the tree to biofuel.

Scalziand, it has been known for a great many years that the blue haze which gives the Blue Ridge Mountains their name is essentially tree-induced smog.

Is that due to the mountains having so much coal around there?

It is due to the mountains having so many termites up there.

You think a tree is healthy, then it comes down and the insides look like a sponge.

Trees store both potential energy and chemical energy. Most of our trees are red oak, which stores 14.89 megajoules per kg. By contrast, TNT stores a mere 4.184 megajoules per kg. And each tree is likely to weigh tons! So obviously trees are more dangerous than one ton bombs!

Like I said, we need to stop all this nonsense about nurturing and treasuring nuts. We should just eat them. Then we would finally get this tree thing under control.

It's a small goosestep from tree-huggers to storm troopers.

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Ladajo, I have a problem with eating the nuts.

While there are some nice hickory and walnut trees in the area, the trees on my property are almost all oaks, with the occasional pine. I've tried ... while acorns are alledgedly edible, it is apparently an acquired taste, and I've not acquired it.

As for pine nuts, Euell Gibbons pushed it, and I'm guessing that's what killed him. They're even worse than Grape Nuts.

So I let the turkeys and deer eat the acorns, and I'll eat the turkeys and deer. If you're going to be a nut, at least there is some practical value in being a gun nut.

I think second order consumption of nuts still meets the proposed goal of preventing trees from taking over the earth.
If we do this in a well organised fashion, we may even get the termites to develop space flight as a result of the necessity to find another planet infested with trees.

The other approach we could take is setting up a health care program for gypsy moth caterpillars.

Did you know our goverment has been using chemical and biological weapons on them? This includes aerial spraying with Bacillus thurengensis, a close cousin of anthrax!!!

Leave these little green munchers to their own devices, and you'll soon have stands of seasoning firewood.

MSimon wrote:Trees are dangerous. Kids find them to be lots of fun. They like to climb high in them and do dangerous things.

Only the government can protect your children from the dangers inherent in trees.

Come to think of it, I used to have lots of fun with trees as a kid, our parents would give us saws and hatchets and tell us to go play lumberjack with them. It was great fun, unless you happen to be a tree.

Tom Ligon wrote:I've tried ... while acorns are alledgedly edible, it is apparently an acquired taste, and I've not acquired it.

The Indians had a technique of leaching the bad tasting poison from acorn meal.

ladajo wrote:Like I said, we need to stop all this nonsense about nurturing and treasuring nuts. We should just eat them.

Ok, who volunteers to eat Diogenes?