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   Linguist said, 5 months ago

   And now… For something completely different…
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   surfstuff55 said, 5 months ago

   I’m a Lumberjack (or Jill) and I’m Okay!
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 5 months ago

   The tree was axing for it.
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   runar said, 5 months ago

   Maybe she should have been trying Not Being Seen.
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   Paula R. Stiles said, 5 months ago

   It’s all fun and games until some bird craps in your eye.
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   KasparV said, 5 months ago

   The bird wasn’t pinin’ for the fjords.
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   JohnnyDiego said, 5 months ago

   Just be thankful it wasn’t a cow.
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   Alexikakos said, 5 months ago

   Title: Woodman, Spare That Tree!
   
   Author: George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
   
   
   

   Woodman, spare that tree!
   Touch not a single bough!
   In youth it sheltered me,
   And I’ll protect it now.
   ‘Twas my forefather’s hand
   That placed it near his cot;
   There, woodman, let it stand,
   Thy axe shall harm it not.
   
   That old familiar tree,
   Whose glory and renown
   Are spread o’er land and sea—
   And wouldst thou hew it down?
   Woodman, forebear thy stroke!
   Cut not its earth-bound ties;
   Oh, spare that aged oak,
   Now towering to the skies!
   
   When but an idle boy,
   I sought its grateful shade;
   In all their gushing joy
   Here, too, my sisters played.
   My mother kissed me here;
   My father pressed my hand—
   Forgive this foolish tear,
   But let that old oak stand.
   
   My heart-strings round thee cling,
   Close as thy bark, old friend!
   Here shall the wild-bird sing,
   And still thy branches bend.
   Old tree! the storm still brave!
   And, woodman, leave the spot;
   While I’ve a hand to save,
   thy axe shall harm it not.
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   dukedoug said, 5 months ago

   “I stuck my finger in the woodpecker’s hole …”
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    richardelguru said, 5 months ago

    Ah! Quercus maximus Bamber Gascoigneii
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 5 months ago

    If oak is so hard, why are baseball bats made of ash?
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    Tirasmol said, 5 months ago

    hahahaahahaahaaa
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    Coyoty said, 5 months ago

    It’s a good thing that’s an oak, saving you all from a Pythonic comment about felling conifers and floating the logs down a twisty river… Oops, too late.
    
    Punsman, spare that tree joke!
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    masterskrain said, 5 months ago

    Not too sure about Oak being the Hardest of the Hardwoods. I have to split firewood here, and I can go through a piece of Oak pretty easily, but a piece of Cherry the same size will sometimes make my 4 pound maul actually bounce off!
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    Trickle Down said, 5 months ago

    Reminds me of the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
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