The more you know  

Mar 27, 2017 10:41 PM

OgdenMorrow

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The more you know.

Seems like I've been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like growing. From a tree within a tree.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And I made this all up...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I am shocked... SHOCKED that user 'Ima_Grab_Yo_Snatch' is neither a forest ranger nor a reliable source for botany facts. Truly.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm really surprised ima grab yo snatch isn't a real botanist.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Um... I'm just here appreciating that username.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I made all this up.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In wonderful HD! v

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Haha love it "I made this all up" damn trixter

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

+1 for phoenix tree.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You took two minutes of my life and i want them back! Ah screw it I'd only waste them.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What is dead may never die!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But rises again, harder and stronger!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Treeception

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Ah.Here we are. Treeception. +1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ima_grab_yo_snatch is a forest ranger. That's the best part.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I am so dang gullible. I believed it until the last 5 words.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

i believed it until "impossible to kill"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I kind of feel like lots of people didn't read the whole thing.

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

some people will believe anything. All I know is them Mutfruit bushes will grow pretty much anywhere...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And I was really thought "Ima grab yo snatch" was a credible source.

9 years ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 1

A questionable source of snatch grabbing , perhaps.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not even a credible threat.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How is this not the most upvoted comment?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Probably because of my typo. Thanks for the vote of confidence tho.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure that's a Bradford Pear tree, which are all around pretty shitty trees.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When I worked in herbicide, a million years ago, we just called it stump regrowth. It's pretty resilient but not impossible to kill.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 7

2) Also, not that uncommon either.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 5

Well, he did say he made it all up.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

+1 to you for reading the whole post and not stopping before the end...

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

A fellow pesticide worker! This isn't stop regrowth though, not growing from the living part of a tree. The center wood is dead.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So... it's a new tree using the old one as food or what?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for ready player one reference

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Thank you, I've been waiting for this comment.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I listen to the entire audio recording of RPO just about every week while working.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

POP QUIZ. what song starts playing on 8-track when parzival is flying in leopardon to The Battle of Castle Anorak

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Correct! I really hope they play it in the movie.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thst last sentence ha

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Thst spelling error ha

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Yes, that is the whole point.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And yet a lot of these comments suggest people are missing it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I am Groot!

9 years ago | Likes 135 Dislikes 1

Thank you

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We are Groot

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

I am Groot.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I AM GROOT?!

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2369 Dislikes 8

FIANNALY IV BEEN WAITING MY WHOLE LIFE TO BE ONE OF THE 1000TH CLICKER 2000

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

I absolutely love your username

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I have this effect on people

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

So does my dick

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Who is this?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

A female human.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 5

Doing her Melania Trump impersonation I see

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

She looks like she is powering down

9 years ago | Likes 266 Dislikes 0

Plot twist, its a modern day sexbot that is actually shutting down

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Dat turtle-like neck extension from the lady behind her tho

9 years ago | Likes 174 Dislikes 1

Holy shit.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn! An animagus amongst us

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

And I'm like zooming in to post pic looking for a lady for 5min. Oh! Comment pic (duh)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I feel betrayed.

9 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 0

There's always Pando, a tree that's lived longer than many Americans think the world has existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This was a good read. I hope they can figure out why Pando's dying.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Feel more:

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Right in the fucking feels!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which movie is this?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my neighbor totoro. Beautiful movie

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My Neighbor Totoro!!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Studio Ghibli?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

.....Its just a stump that wasn't dead. Cutting down a tree doesn't guarantee that you killed it.

9 years ago | Likes 135 Dislikes 33

Not the same species and thats not how stumps generate besides.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

That's not how a stump would resprout. It's just another tree taking advantage of space and nutrients by growing in another's corpse.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Sprouts only grow from the living edge of the tree or the roots, not from the dead center wood of the tree

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Bird that had eaten the seed poop in the little hole. Thus a new specie of true. Charles Darwin would have the answer surely

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep! Years ago I helped my father drop a pecan tree because it was dropping nuts in the neighbors yard. I just realized (10 yrs) it's back

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Y'all just pruned the hell out of it.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You don't kill a tree until you kill the roots. And neighboring trees can actually support another tree through the roots.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Lol. How does this shit have so many upvotes?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Weird this usually works on people though right?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If you were to strike me down I would become more powerful than you could possably imagine.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck with me. I don't give half a fuck bout your jedi fuckery. I'll strike you down and pee on your force ghost shits.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cut a checkered pattern in the stump cover in diesel and place a cloth like material to rot away stumps. (im an arborist)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Diesel is pretty awful for the environment - there are more enviro friendly options now, although stump grinding is best, no soil pollution.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They're not the same species.

9 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 0

racist.

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Specieist*

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Treeist*

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fern Gully fairy fucker.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 275 Dislikes 1

Knew he'd be here somewhere

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The planet is fine. The people are fucked. - George Carlin

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@JeffGoldblumSayingWellThereItIs

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Uh uh... life... uh uh uh uh... (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 1

... uh... finds a way...

9 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 1

Love it. That's always the way I say it too, stutter on with a few dozen uh's before I get to the end.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

God I love that comment. It's so full of uh...uh...uh...life.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

checkmate

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was getting more and more skeptical until the very end.

9 years ago | Likes 1187 Dislikes 3

Casssss! It's wierd, u was just watching Supernatural lol ( still going through the series actually )

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought the "impossible to kill" was a little odd. Anything can be killed if you're ambitious enough!

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

The weird thing was I went the other way - I knew it was bullshit at the beginning but began to believe it the more I read haha

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's because that shit has a quantum effect. The more you observe it, the bigger the mess it makes when you stop, even for a moment.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Oh sorry, wrong thread...I need a fuckin drink...goodnight.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Upvote for misha collins

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Lost me at "extremely rare"

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Lost me at specific number of 35.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And then your saw her face...

9 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 1

No, I'm a bee leaver.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

now I'm a believer

9 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

One would think you wouldn't be a believer after you found out it was a lie.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not a trace!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not a doubt in my mind

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm in love, and I'm a believer

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 9

Username checks out. Your lyrics would indeed make bullshit music.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You are the first person to correctly call out this shitty username in years.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In fact they're very common - You can buy them at your local garden centre for as little as tree fiddy

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

BOOM! There it is. Headshot of the night. I'm done...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

The username "Ima_Grab_Yo_Snatch" didn't give it away?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

are you assuming his knowledge on trees JUST from his username?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

are you assuming his knowledge on trees JUST from his username?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is a ficus growing out of a non-ficus stump.

9 years ago | Likes 1028 Dislikes 8

Looks like a Benjamina too!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Checked replies for ficus puns. Not disappointed.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think someone planted it in there. has to be.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah but it would have been better if it was an apple tree growing from a ficus tree.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A talking monkey told me the same thing.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I bet that's all he says.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I got a 10 says "Pass the pepper". I got two quarters sing harmony on "Moonlight in Vermont".

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't touch the ficus!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called Ficus Dickus.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ficus? He hardly knew us!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

You sir are correct

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So it's a tree-ficus?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Out of a Silver Maple maybe?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I'm relevant!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Is it a jizz-free ficus?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The Larch. The. Larch. The Larch.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

And now for something completely different.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The. Larch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What the ficus?

9 years ago | Likes 246 Dislikes 2

Fig tree

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

This guy read it as what's a ficus, and I must confess, so did I at first :/

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Just like how my white wife gave birth to a non-white child. What a coincidence! Lol I gotta go show this to my roommate, Jamal.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Aahahahaaa, tell Jamal to keep up the hard work! This comments gold YeOldNerd!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cyril Figus tree?

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

What is the plural of ficus?

9 years ago | Likes 194 Dislikes 2

ficuti?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ficai?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ficusisis

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Fenis

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fic you

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fuck, I!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That's like asking someone how to spell pussie on the spot.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fici

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fici, ficu, ficis, fuckit more than one damn tree

9 years ago | Likes 371 Dislikes 0

its ficuses

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fuck.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ficus trees.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ficum.

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

Let's ask Ranger Ima_grab_yo_snatch!

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 3

Feces

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Given it's Latin origins, the proper declension would be ficus, ficī

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Octopus => Octopi. Ficus => Fici

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Actually, the proper plural of octopus is octopodes. It's a greek word, not latin.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Actually, all three pluralizations are correct. "Octopodes" is just the most correct, while "octopi" is the least. Then there's "octopuses".

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I said proper. Not correct. Octopodes IS the proper pluralization.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0