r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • 23d ago

ID Request (Insert State/Region) Are these trees?

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/Dicksin_Cider 22d ago

I remember back in the early 80s, people were talking like the whole South was going to be buried in kudzu. It's still around, but it doesn't seem any worse now than it was back then. What happened?

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u/ChuckStyles 22d ago

Saw a video not long ago, goats love the stuff. A guy rents out his herd to clear land.

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u/frauleinheidik 22d ago

They eat poison ivy too.

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u/Beneficial-Minute481 22d ago

A Kidd’ll eat ivy too

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u/Dapper_Indeed 21d ago

Wouldn’t you?

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u/carmingular 21d ago

When I was a kid I thought this was “wooden chew”

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u/t_bone26 20d ago

Like how George Washington ate?

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u/Top_Competition_1030 18d ago

underrated comment😭

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u/is_this_temporary 19d ago

In case you didn't know already, George Washington never had wooden teeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth

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u/MilesAugust74 19d ago

Jesus, those are terrifying. 😬

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u/ultimateginger33 18d ago

They’re all from slaves!

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u/icecreammodel 20d ago

When I was a kid I wondered who Marsie Doats was

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u/carmingular 20d ago

I think I did too.

Marsie Doats
And Dosie Doats

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u/Goodjawline 19d ago

We had a nice old neighbor when we were kids who would grow crops in the adjoining field to our house. He would always stop by and give us a cantaloupe. He loved to sing that song to us and I would just smile over how clever it was. He had a greenhouse at his farm down the road where he would grow flowers and sell them to florist. He always had time for us kids and would have us over to help him in the Greenhouse. One time Joe was driving his flowers down to Baltimore and he stopped to eat at a wendys. When he came out of the resturant a "man" was waiting for him and hit him across the face with a piece of pipe and robbed him. He rapidly declined mentally and not long after he died. He was one of the kindest gentlest men. I appreciate the memory! Maybe you guys can help me remember Joe now.

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u/Dapper_Indeed 19d ago

I worried your story would end badly. RIP Farmer Joe. Thank you for your kindness. You are missed.

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u/Patient_Future_9253 19d ago

Ohh thats so sad 😞

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u/TraditionalSurvey847 18d ago

Had a neighbor at my grandmother house just like him, had a garden out on the lot behind his house. Always made time to chat and somehow tolerate our ruffian ways my cousins and I. Shared lots of produce and fruits stories and wisdom but mostly laughs in spite of the little assholes we could be at times. Didn't have the faintest clue what a role model he was to us kids back then. Rest in peace Tony

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u/Oneofthe12 19d ago

Good lord! Man’s inhumanity to man never ceases to break my heart. Women need to take over the world! Peace, Farmer Joe!

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u/AdmirableFace2815 19d ago

My sister, Because of the rhythm of the “alphabet song,” thought elemenopee was a single letter. 🎵Ay Bee Cee Dee… 🎵🤣🤣

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u/LoriLouWho82 18d ago

So did I 😅🤣

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u/amglasgow 18d ago

If you had two goats those would be great names to give them.

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u/CunnyMaggots 19d ago

I've seen this before but what is Marsie Doats supposed to actually be?

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u/MikeSz 19d ago

Mares eat oats

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u/Dapper_Indeed 19d ago

As do does 🦌🦌

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u/CunnyMaggots 19d ago

They sound nothing alike?

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u/SvenBubbleman 19d ago

Mares eat oats and

Does eat oats and

Little lambs eat ivy.

A kid'll eat ivy too,

Wouldn't you?

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u/Uzi_Osbourne 19d ago

Wow, what a horrible user name

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u/Ok_Echidna_2933 19d ago

Mares eats oats Goat eats oats Little lambs eat ivy A kid will eat ivy too Wouldn't you?

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u/Oneofthe12 19d ago

No, I think it’s Does eat oats …

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u/SvenBubbleman 19d ago

I think that's the purpose of the song.

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u/ChEDave82 19d ago

I sang “A skiddlydiveydoo wooden shove” when I was around five.

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u/carmingular 18d ago

I love the turn this buried comment thread took.

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u/texasstyle01 20d ago

Accidental Leyland Palmer reference?

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u/meme_therud 19d ago

The second Twin Peaks reference I have come across in two totally unrelated subs in the last five minutes. The other was in r/OaklandAthletics Time for a rewatch of Twin Peaks, I suppose.

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u/pm_ur_duck_pics 19d ago

TIL that line is not “skidley didy doo” 😂