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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Topic: Genesis was right. It's here. Posted: August 04 2015 at 15:33 |
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Michael678
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 02 2013 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2466 |
Posted: August 04 2015 at 17:07 | ||
LOL hope the people there are going to be alright after this
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Progrockdude
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dr wu23
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20491 |
Posted: August 04 2015 at 17:30 | ||
There's another Hogweed - Genesis thread here somewhere.....can't recall which forum it's on.
oh...it's in the 'just for fun forum'...but the link to there wouldn't work...go figure.
Edited by dr wu23 - August 04 2015 at 17:41 |
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
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AZF
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 17 2012 Location: Wirral Status: Offline Points: 1079 |
Posted: August 04 2015 at 19:07 | ||
I've got sympathy for the kids who have been injured. But I was thinking "Well if you've had listened to Genesis instead of whatever else you listened to..."
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RockHound
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 569 |
Posted: August 04 2015 at 21:26 | ||
They do have an article on what to do , but they omit the most vital information, such as where to buy Nursery Cryme and photos of Peter Gabriel's costumes.
I was further disturbed that the article did not point out the well reasoned case for eradication, not to mention the potentially life saving information in the lyrics. And Genesis did have the class to include the proper name of the plant at the end of their brilliant discourse.
Edited by RockHound - August 04 2015 at 21:29 |
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 01:00 | ||
Heracleum Mantegazziani will kill them with their Hogweed hairs........
They have returned 🍃 |
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Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 01:06 | ||
Great
It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen. |
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chopper
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 19957 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 02:24 | ||
I think you mean the Victorian explorer. |
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Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:41 | ||
I also blame the Royal Gardens at Kew.
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19696 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:46 | ||
Yes, but Lords collecting plants in their vast properties actually really helped in letting it expand nothing new... My fave café was across the street from a residential waste land, colonized by the hogweeds. It's now all built up, but the weeding took special care and costed the promoter a fair bit (nothing compared to the building that took place, but still... an unwelcomed surprise cost)
what I don't understand is why they don't from exploring team to exterminate it. Get volunteers or ask people on the dole pay their expenses and a fair supplement, and get rid of that crap |
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AZF
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 17 2012 Location: Wirral Status: Offline Points: 1079 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 04:59 | ||
But obviously, get them to strike by night as they are defenceless.
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PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 02 2014 Location: New Hampshire Status: Offline Points: 1195 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 05:43 | ||
Very interesting indeed!
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
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RockHound
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 569 |
Posted: August 05 2015 at 09:06 | ||
I now think the Hogweed must be saved. It has rights too, you know. Surely the Royal Gardens at Kew could set aside an entire pavilion dedicated exclusively to hogweed preservation.
Hmmm... What else could be grown in cultivated wild gardens? |
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Hercules
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Near York UK Status: Offline Points: 7024 |
Posted: August 06 2015 at 14:15 | ||
We've had the bloody things in England since I was a kid growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s/60s.
We had a huge one (about 15 foot tall) in the garden near our apple trees. I cut it down with an axe: thank Christ it didn't fall on me because I had no idea how dangerous they were. Next year there were dozens of smaller ones which we annihilated before they could seed. One of my father's workmen stupidly pulled some small ones up with his bare hands and had no reaction immediately, but a few days later, he went out in bright sunshine and blisters sprouted everywhere. He had recurrent pain for several years. |
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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symphonicman
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 14 2015 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 114 |
Posted: August 15 2015 at 07:00 | ||
I was out walking and listening to the song. The Return of the Giant Hogweed. At the same time as I saw a real one. Coincidence?
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Master James of St. George.
Of the fields and the sky. He used to build castles of stone, steel, and blood. But lines get broken down. |
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Intruder
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2098 |
Posted: August 18 2015 at 01:34 | ||
Turn and run!
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19696 |
Posted: August 18 2015 at 02:50 | ||
I believe some sort of life must be eradicated , because they bring nothing good to normal life (and I don't buy they help set "nature's equilibrium") . Stuff like tiques and fleas, leaches, bloodsuckers, like most parasites, etc... can easily disppear for all I care. I mean, even if they were to bring something positive, their disadvantages or cons far outweigh the pros, that they can disappear from the face of the earth. Nature will adapt. Same with plants: poison ivy or hogweed (why give it a capital h). OK, some of the plant's extracts or poison can be used for science or medical uses (anti-poisons maybe), but if it would be the case, than grow it in an closed-off environment where they can't escape anymore |
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RockHound
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 569 |
Posted: August 22 2015 at 17:38 | ||
This is precisely what Regal Hogweed thinks. And what Botanical Creature wants, Botanical Creature should have.
Edited by RockHound - August 23 2015 at 09:45 |
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Rednight
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 18 2014 Location: Mar Vista, CA Status: Offline Points: 4807 |
Posted: August 25 2015 at 15:29 | ||
In Michigan, of all places. Imagine that.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625 |
Posted: August 28 2015 at 14:31 | ||
Back in the late '70's friends and I thought the song was reefering to marijuana.
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