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    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 30 15:59:35 2023
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    xkcd: Dendrochronology
    https://xkcd.com/2847/

    Um, I am fairly sure that there was not a period of carnivorous trees in
    1635. At least, I hope not.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2847:_Dendrochronology

    Lynn

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 30 21:14:20 2023
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    In article <uhp5fn$kdab$[email protected]>,
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    xkcd: Dendrochronology
    https://xkcd.com/2847/

    Um, I am fairly sure that there was not a period of carnivorous trees in >1635. At least, I hope not.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2847:_Dendrochronology

    Lynn


    They've featured in a number of SF stories.

    Hmm, the Whomping Willow didn't actually ever eat the people it
    killed, did it? (And yes, I know we never saw a death, but it wasn't
    pulling any punches, there must have been some along the way..)
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From John W Kennedy@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 20:35:06 2023
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    On 10/30/23 5:14 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <uhp5fn$kdab$[email protected]>,
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    xkcd: Dendrochronology
    https://xkcd.com/2847/

    Um, I am fairly sure that there was not a period of carnivorous trees in
    1635. At least, I hope not.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2847:_Dendrochronology

    Lynn


    They've featured in a number of SF stories.

    Hmm, the Whomping Willow didn't actually ever eat the people it
    killed, did it? (And yes, I know we never saw a death, but it wasn't
    pulling any punches, there must have been some along the way..)

    One of the many changes in the 1939 movie is that the Fighting Trees are
    aade little more than a comic interlude. In the book, they’re a sentry
    corps, and if the Tin Woodman hadn’t been there, Dorothy’s party would
    have had to walk around the entire forest. Could they be
    anthropophagous? I don’t know.

    Old Man Willow in the Old Forest.

    --
    John W. Kennedy
    Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
    King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Nov 5 02:37:27 2023
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    In article <uhp5fn$kdab$[email protected]>,
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    xkcd: Dendrochronology
    https://xkcd.com/2847/

    Um, I am fairly sure that there was not a period of carnivorous trees in >1635. At least, I hope not.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2847:_Dendrochronology

    [Hal Heydt]
    In Graydon Saunders "Commonweal" series you have eel trees that
    will try to eat you. There is also screaming buttweed, a ground
    cover that overcomes it's victims through phychic attaacks so
    that the die and provide fertilizer. Plus various other plants
    intended to be weapons. (It's a vicious ecology anywhere people
    aren't actively suppressing inimical plants, animals, and
    insects.)

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