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To: DallasBiff

Those bastards killed our elm trees!


6 posted on 09/23/2015 2:43:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

“Killed our elm trees”

Ha! That’s funny to me because I was loading some elm logs into my firewood stack yesterday, and started wondering about Dutch Elm Disease, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It said they think it started in Asia, but it was a load of Rock Elm logs sent from North America (didn’t say if it was USA or Canada) to Europe that killed all their trees. Some Dutch scientist discovered what it was, so they named the disease after his country, which in retrospect seems like a rude thing to do.


16 posted on 09/23/2015 2:54:56 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: tumblindice
Well, to tell a family secret...

My grandmother was a Dutch.

53 posted on 09/23/2015 5:05:55 PM PDT by Rodamala
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