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The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call
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| Aug. 26, 2010
| Annalee Newitz
Posted on 08/28/2010 1:31:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
plant anguish: Another reason to feel guilty and hate life, brought to you by the left.
As C.S. Lewis once alluded, in their world, "...it's always winter. Always winter, and never Christmas."
To: Free ThinkerNY
Smoking grass OK....cutting bad.
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:36:50 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Free ThinkerNY
M. Night Shyamalan: Prophet?
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:42:27 PM PDT
by
Echo4C
(We have it in our power to begin the world over again. --Thomas Paine)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well a million blades of grass are going to be screaming in pain at about 11 AM tomorrow at my house.
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:42:42 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Oh the horror!! Stop grass torture now!!!
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:45:37 PM PDT
by
Vasilli22
To: Free ThinkerNY
At least they’re polite when they complain.
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:46:17 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Huskrrrr
Smoking grass OK....cutting bad.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Thank God I didn't have my mouth full of coffee when I read that, my new netbook would be soaked!
What IDIOTS. Who exactly is the GRASS sending a distress call out to?
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:46:50 PM PDT
by
politicalmerc
(I can see November from my house; can you?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:48:26 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: Free ThinkerNY
And since humans are attracted to the smell of cut grass - can we assume we’re ‘relatives’ of the “rescue” groups?
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:48:54 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(TIME Magazine - - a conserve-a-phobe publication.)
To: GOPJ
People think I’m weird because I swear I can smell freshly cut hair.
Maybe they think I’m weird for other reasons.
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:50:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: politicalmerc
Who exactly is the GRASS sending a distress call out to?
Perhaps Gaia.
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posted on
08/28/2010 1:52:11 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Free ThinkerNY
I have shrub oak and every few years they get attacked by green inchworms. Then what happens is that a tiny black wasp appears and lays eggs on the trees. The tree then forms a small round ball around the eggs that the new wasps crawl out of (a few days later?) and attack the inchworms (caterpillars) ending the inchworm infestation for a couple of years.
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posted on
08/28/2010 2:00:17 PM PDT
by
LeGrande
(Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.)
To: GOPJ
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08/28/2010 2:02:22 PM PDT
by
KingLudd
To: Free ThinkerNY
The really cool part is, the grass grows back.
Now if humans had that power, and say, got a limb cut off, or even just a finger...it would be painful, but if it grew right back, no big deal. Maybe we should start a group to protect the poor grass from its anguist...we could call it PETA...Plants Emitting Terrible Anguish...ask for donations, protest to Congress, and chain ourselves to every lawn to prevent it from being cut.
I just read something a couple of weeks ago about how the smell of new mown grass is a "relaxant" of sort for humans, sort of an aeromatic stress reliever.
Way back when I was a kid I had some "Tales of the Crypt" comic books, which were later banned by the Comics code; I remember a story about a guy who invented a radio receiver that would pick up the sounds of plants in pain...like a tree yelping as someone was cutting it down...or a rose bush crying when someone cut off a rose...well, it was silly then (and fiction) and it's silly now.
Maybe algore could pick up on it and make it his new cult..."Plants have feeling too".
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08/28/2010 2:10:24 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
To: the invisib1e hand
Another reason to feel guilty and hate life, brought to you by the left.Pretty soon we'll have plant rights activists who will vandalize lawn mowers.
To: the invisib1e hand; All
For God’s Sake, don’t let the Greenies find out. They’ll start up some new fringe group: PETPOOP - People for Ethically Treating the Property of Other People.
To: gorush
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posted on
08/28/2010 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
peggybac
(Restore America and restore her honor.)
To: FrankR
But what about the PTDS each of these blades goes through for each cutting.
To: cripplecreek
LOL! Good thing I didn’t have any liquid in my mouth when I read your comment.
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