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Title: Where have all the acorns gone? Post by: trekgeezer on December 01, 2008, 09:14:09 AM Is this some new secret weapon developed to wipe out the those pesky squirrel terrorists?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112902045.html Title: Re: Where have all the acorns gone? Post by: Jack on December 01, 2008, 09:42:17 AM Nature's kind of weird that way. Averages tend to be composed of a whole lot of big numbers and a whole lot of small numbers, confounding people who think they should consist of a whole lot of average numbers.
On the other hand, we had a freakin' bazillion maple seeds all over the place this year. (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/644673/2/istockphoto_644673_brown_maple_seeds.jpg) Title: Re: Where have all the acorns gone? Post by: ER on December 01, 2008, 12:16:04 PM I think the decline of acorns suggestively coincides with the recent epidemic of squirrel obesity we been hearing so much about. Hmmmmm....
Title: Re: Where have all the acorns gone? Post by: Wortcov on December 01, 2008, 12:47:10 PM Is this some new secret weapon developed to wipe out the those pesky squirrel terrorists? maybe it is the other way around. :buggedout:maybe the squirrel king have collected all the nut for himself, and telling his minions that it was we who did it, filling them whit a endless anger so instead of enslaving humankind will they wipe us of the map. :buggedout: Title: Re: Where have all the acorns gone? Post by: raj on December 01, 2008, 03:03:37 PM Is this some new secret weapon developed to wipe out the those pesky squirrel terrorists? maybe it is the other way around. :buggedout:maybe the squirrel king have collected all the nut for himself, and telling his minions that it was we who did it, filling them whit a endless anger so instead of enslaving humankind will they wipe us of the map. :buggedout: Bingo! And the squirrels around my folks' place in Newport News VA seem to be in high corn when it comes to acorns. |