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George Harrison tree is felled by beetles
Reuters ^
| 07.22.2014
| Reuters
Posted on 07/22/2014 3:12:11 PM PDT by dware
A tree planted in memorial to late Beatles guitarist George Harrison following his death in Los Angeles in 2001 has been killed by bark beetles amid California's epic drought, a local official said on Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: beatles; beetles
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Felled by beetles. Ironic, much?
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:12:11 PM PDT
by
dware
To: dware
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:13:28 PM PDT
by
OldSmaj
(obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
To: OldSmaj
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:14:52 PM PDT
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: dware
Whoever said God doesn’t have a sense of humor — or rather, humour.
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:16:34 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: dware
LOL. Quite amusing. One would think George would think so too.
On a more serious not, God help us if that mega-wildfire touches off.
To: dware
Now that’s what we call ‘Beetlemania’.
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:21:35 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: dware
Don’t beetles have the same right to life as trees? Are we good Darwinists here, or not? Survival of the fittest!
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:25:05 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: OldSmaj
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:27:36 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: dware
While his guitar gently weeps...
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:31:41 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: chajin
While his guitar gently weeps...ESPECIALLY if his guitar is infested with beetles.
To: All
I WANT TO MOURN.... THE LOSS of all the old growth!!!! Of trees I’ve seen!!! And tell them that we love them and we don’t want them to die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
Chris Plante plays this regularly on his show! It is a hoot!
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:51:14 PM PDT
by
Klemper
To: dware
Were they Silver Beetles, by chance? ;)
[They didn't call themselves that long, maybe 5 weeks or so.]
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posted on
07/22/2014 3:58:01 PM PDT
by
W.
(Democrats need the 'poor' to justify their political existence. What'd LBJ say? "I'll have them ni..)
To: dware
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posted on
07/22/2014 4:02:34 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
To: dware
Throw it in some strawberry field forever..
To: dware
Or they can recycle it and give it to some Paperback Writer.
To: dware
“There’s a fog upon L.A.............”
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posted on
07/22/2014 4:17:11 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: DainBramage
All we are saying is give trees a chance.
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posted on
07/22/2014 4:18:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SMGFan
Norwegian wood?Obviously not ... if so it would have had to burn instead.
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posted on
07/22/2014 4:46:03 PM PDT
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: Tax-chick
Darwinians? Filthy, unshowered beasts who roam the world in the spirit of philosophy, rather than science? Ha! Ha! You make me laugh.
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posted on
07/22/2014 4:51:27 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: dware
Guess they won’t be making any guitars from the wood of that tree....
as it would gently weep....
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posted on
07/22/2014 5:13:27 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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