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MNDEM2004 (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:09 AM Original message |
Why do trees make cracking sounds in the winter? |
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Droopy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because they are cold and brittle |
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Zoigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. You are a poetic soul, Droopy. |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. They only make that noise when they are plotting to kill you |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Robert Frost knows where you're coming from: |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I'm speechless |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Frost was a brilliant poet. |
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RushIsRot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
3. Would YOU hum an Irish jig in that temperature? I'll bet your tree |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
5. Frozen sap cracking as it makes the bends into various limbs & branches? |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
8. they are popping like gunfire here....and |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. Oooh, they did that in "The Blair Witch Project" too. Be afraid. |
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Cleveland Rocks (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. (Apologies to Joyce Kilmer) |
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Cleveland Rocks (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 05:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I almost forgot, last but not least, |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. When it gets below freezing, the moisture |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 06:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Heh. Look that tree right in the knothole, and ask... |
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