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SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

Hours of laughter for gardeners (and anyone who likes to laugh). Dig in and discover a shedload of hilarious gardening tweets, blog posts, memes, cartoons from award-winning cartoonist Mark Parisi, one-liners, verse, witty definitions, bushels of photographs, and more. Here is your garden center of laughter about all things gardening-related — from compost to cutworms . . . sheds to shovels . . . bee stings to back pain . . . dibbers to dandelions . . . sunburn to slugs . . . seed packets to squirrels . . . lawn mowers to leaf blowers. Enjoy bales of laughter in this romp through the world of gardening.

Hours of laughter for gardeners (and anyone who likes to laugh).

Dig in and discover a shedload of hilarious gardening tweets, blog posts, memes, cartoons from award-winning cartoonist Mark Parisi, one-liners, verse, witty definitions, bushels of photographs, and more.

Here is your garden center of laughter about all things gardening-related — from compost to cutworms . . . sheds to shovels . . . bee stings to back pain . . . dibbers to dandelions . . . sunburn to slugs . . . seed packets to squirrels . . . lawn mowers to leaf blowers.

Enjoy bales of laughter in this romp through the world of gardening.

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290 QUIPPERY / SEEDS & WEEDS

— sphagnum has taken me hostage. How dark, how baleful that

word! And now pronouncing —

Please stop — please —

— pronouncing itself over and over in my mind — the ancient,

malevolent curse — sphagnum sphagnum sphagnum sphagnum

— like the tolling, tolling, tolling of a bell. Someone, anyone — I’m

begging you, please rescue me.

Very well, then! We recoil from even having to think about this — but you

leave us no option. Your affliction is rare but very real and very serious. It

can also be contagious, so take care to isolate until you’re thoroughly rid

of it. Here’s the medically recommended procedure:

• Do not try to push it out — you’ll sphagnum only be feeding it your

energy. And your energy is exactly sphagnum what it craves.

• Now you will try gradually to wean yourself of the word. Start

sphagnum by replacing it with similar-sounding words and then move

to less similar words.

• Most people start with sphagnous (meaning of, relating to, or

abounding in sphagnum).

• From sphagnous you move to sphygmus (a pulse or pulsation) and

then to sphygmic (relating to the pulse).

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