| May 10, 2006 @ 8:38 PM |
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RareQuestor
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It's a bright sunny afternoon and I am strolling home after a long day at work when I notice one of my neighbors carrying a tank of herbicide and spraying it on every dandelion on his lawn. I successfully suppressed an impulse to deck him and apply a few squirts of herbicide to his face--the idiot was probably unaware that soil cannot purify chemicals and hence he was contaminating our groundwater for no valid reason--but the incident made me wonder yet again about a question which has bugged me for many years.
Why do people hate dandelions so much?
A dandelion is not kudzu. It's a flower. A beautiful flower that only blossoms for a few weeks and then vanishes. To the best of my knowledge, it does not harm any other plant and it brightens many a lawn which otherwise be a bland uniform green. I really just don't understand why so many otherwise intelligent people waste money, time and energy trying to kill an essentially harmless flower. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:40 PM |
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holding4u
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Get him back. Plant some kudzu in his yard. Proper growing conditions - kudzu can grow a foot in 24 hours and is almost impossible to get rid of. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:41 PM |
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spongebob777
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waste money, time and energy trying to kill an essentially harmless flower.
Edible as well. Personally I just mow them or yank them up by the roots from my flowerbeds.
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:51 PM |
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davelrrp
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Rare, at 5'8", 130, it was probably wise to resist your impulse. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:53 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Dandelion Wine 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:53 PM |
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Always_Striving
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Dandelion leaves are supposed to make a healthy salad.
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:54 PM |
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Jankia
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A beautiful flower that only blossoms for a few weeks and then vanishes.
When that beautiful flower dies its ugly as hell and produces umpteen thousand seeds that are quite unwanted in gardens.The only herbicide that contaminates ground water is atrazine,its not used just for killing dandelions because it kills grass and anything that grows.You cannot buy it anymore without certification in its use.
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| May 10, 2006 @ 8:58 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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When that beautiful flower dies its ugly as hell
 Oh..I love picking them then and blowing all those little fuzzy things around.. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:01 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Making a dandolion necklace, putting it under your chin to see if you like boys. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:03 PM |
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RareQuestor
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Rare, at 5'8", 130, it was probably wise to resist your impulse
He was an old geezer. I am pretty sure I could take him, but my Daddy taught me that it is not honorable to beat up an old geezer. 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:04 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Making a dandolion necklace, putting it under your chin to see if you like boys
I used to do that...my grandkids got a kick out of it too..
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:07 PM |
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RareQuestor
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When that beautiful flower dies its ugly as hell and produces umpteen thousand seeds that are quite unwanted in gardens.
But that is precisely part of the point. You can't possibly kill every dandelion in the neighborhood and it only takes one to fertilize the entire neighborhood, so why bother? 
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:09 PM |
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Jankia
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He was an old geezer. I am pretty sure I could take him, but my Daddy taught me that it is not honorable to beat up an old geezer.
 I had to go and see your age Rare.Nope,your still to young.
I was telling my brother one day about this old man that didnt like my pulling in front of him at a dump site.He was calling me every name you can think of and my brother asked me why I didnt get out and shut him up.I said "yea,right.like I'm going to get out and beat up an old man"
My brother said "You can do that to old men now Jon,your old too!
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:11 PM |
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spongebob777
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it only takes one to fertilize the entire neighborhood
I have a friend who's the same way.
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| May 10, 2006 @ 9:21 PM |
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petmymonkie
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This is to funny as just now I went outside and witnessed my new neighbour on her hands and knees cutting out her dandelions while my yard has a ton of them. Hey, I can't afford weed killer and the kids love picking "flowers" for mommie so Im leaving them there. It 's the only flowers I ever get!!!!
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| May 11, 2006 @ 12:30 AM |
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grumblebear
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a couple years ago during a drought my neighbors wondered if I was watering at night against the watering ban....
then my lawn burst into bloom... brilliant purple flowers everywhere... because my lawn was mostly creeping charlie.... lol
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| May 11, 2006 @ 2:10 AM |
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chinabull2000
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Making a dandolion necklace, putting it under your chin to see if you like boys. No Katts, wasn't that supposed to be daisies?
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| May 11, 2006 @ 8:30 AM |
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mailorderannie
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I looked out my window Easter sunday and my yard was not only full of dandelions but small purple violas also. All that purple and yellow was gorgeous and no way was I going to run out there to kill em. Guess beauty IS in the eye of the beholder!
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| May 11, 2006 @ 8:40 AM |
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spongebob777
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small purple violas
My yard is covered with those, white ones too.
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| May 11, 2006 @ 12:26 PM |
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MotownManiax
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I live in a condo....don't have to worry about what the lawn looks like, my association takes care of it.
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