A Conversation for The Saguaro Boot
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Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat Started conversation Aug 1, 2002
I'm not sure if it is exactly the same cactus, but a friend on mine imported one of those big cacti to Australia and it spent quite a long time in quarintine etc. When he got it home he noticed a peculiar thing. Every time he watered it isshook violently.
He rang up a horticulturist who specialized in cacti and told him.
The man freaked told him to get out of the house and take all the animals etc with him.
Soon the firebrigade and the horticulturist arrived carrying flame throwers etc.
Then started torching the cactus and trillions of big scary and poisonous spiders started to try and escape the flames.
The thing was full of them and they didn't like to be watered.
Scary huh
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 1, 2002
Man, I never heard of anything like that before!
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Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat Posted Aug 1, 2002
it's the truth
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Mhaque Posted Aug 3, 2002
This, I fear, goes under the heading "Urban Legend.
Check out urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcactus.htm for one version.
If you track this story backwards, I think you'll find everyone will tell you it happened to a Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
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Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat Posted Aug 3, 2002
It happened to my friend. Saw the burn marks and helped with the redecorating.
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- 1: Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat (Aug 1, 2002)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Aug 1, 2002)
- 3: Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat (Aug 1, 2002)
- 4: Mhaque (Aug 3, 2002)
- 5: Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat (Aug 3, 2002)
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