Joho the Blog
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February 04, 2005
The snow has melted around the tree in front of our house, leaving about a four inch gap all the way around the trunk.
The snow has not melted around the wooden telephone pole a half block up from our house, on the same side of the street.
What other scientifical conclusions can we draw from this shocking evidence except that trees are our warm-blooded brethren and sistren? Quick! Call the Texas educational system and demand that our children's textbooks be re-written! Posted
by D. Weinberger at February 4, 2005 08:56 AM
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Comments
Water melts snow. Trees collect water from a wide area and it runs down the trunk. Telephone poles do not. Ergo...
Posted by: Stephen Downes | February 4, 2005 10:33 AM
This is evidence of a tree-dwelling animal with clear urine.
Posted by: The Liberal Avenger | February 4, 2005 10:50 AM
Excellent observation. I did not know trees are warm-blooded.
Posted by: Troy Worman | February 4, 2005 11:41 AM
"...and demand that our children's textbooks be re-written!"
...which would require cutting down some more trees?
Posted by: w | February 4, 2005 06:29 PM
Perhaps the trees are salty or otherwise chemically different from the poles. I'm speculating wildly, but now that you've read it on the Internet, it must be true.
Posted by: Kyle Hasselbacher | February 4, 2005 07:20 PM
Is it really a tree, or does it just look like one when represented digitally?
;-)
Posted by: Jay Fienberg | February 5, 2005 06:26 PM
Or, it could mean that snow packed by a plow around a pole is denser than snow that falls around a tree.
Posted by: Tuna | February 12, 2005 03:18 AM