On Sun 11 May 2008 04:44:50p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Sun 11 May 2008 03:53:30p, KW told us...
>>> My parents got the bright idea to landscape with Yucca and other
>>> tropical plants back in the early 70's.....in GEORGIA. I hated those
>>> things. Try playing football in a front yard surrounded by those
>>> body-peircing mutha's!
>>>
>>> KW
>>
>> That's precisely why we planted so many sharp, spiny, thorny, prickly
>> desert plants in our yard...to keep people out of it. The most fun of
>> all is watching someone get too close to a Jumping Cholla. :-)
>
> I got bit by one of those once. So many barbed spines in me they had to
> cut it off and then pull the individual stubs out.
>
>

Yep, that's how they work! Very painful, too.

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Wayne Boatwright
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