# What does "Trees the right height mean"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 2, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949 "2012-07-02T00:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/21 "2012-07-02T16:50:38Z")
Breaking News: _Michael Moore_ [agrees](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/02/21/michael-moore-defends-mitt-romney-trees-michigan-are-just-right-heigh) with Mitt Romney. I wonder how that would play with the conservative crowd! ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/22 "2012-07-02T17:47:20Z")
Hitler eats sugar? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/23 "2012-07-02T23:37:44Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > This was the first thing that came to mind. I thought “why, does he want to hang somebody?” Me too! I almost replied to this thread twice, but thought, “Nah, I’m probably the only one…” ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/24 "2012-07-03T02:08:01Z")
That whole clip is just some really bumbling pandering. It’s like he desperately trying to find the right pander. Trees? Lakes? Wait, no not the great ones, the little ones? Is it cars? It’s cars, right? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/25 "2012-07-03T02:15:13Z")
But not the little ones. ---
**Author:** ![Sacrilegium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Sacrilegium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sacrilegium)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/26 "2012-07-03T02:50:07Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > There is a fine line being chuckling at at laughing at. Are you OK? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/27 "2012-07-03T03:06:32Z")
Trees are \*always \*the right height…don’t you know? God makes them that way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/28 "2012-07-03T21:00:26Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > The right height for what? The right height to reach the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/29 "2012-07-03T23:32:49Z")
To me it means, “We’re white, rich, religious and the poor will pay our taxes.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/30 "2012-07-04T00:20:05Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > When speaking in Michigan several months ago, Gov. Romney said, among other things, that in Michigan, “[the trees are the right height](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHaMqHh5NZ4)” and the crowd chuckled. Why does that statement resonate with conservatives in Michigan? Is it some local expression or something? Maybe it’s an inside joke for the tweakers in the audience because it sure looks like he can relate. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/31 "2012-07-09T11:42:34Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > The right height to reach the ground. Maybe he was trying out a new pick-up line. Hey baby…do those roots go ALL THE WAY up?? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949/32 "2012-07-09T16:17:29Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > “Trees the right height” just seems like such a weird way to say “I’m from around here.” Referencing your boyhood trips to the local sports stadium or iconic restaurant is a better way. In Austin, I would say “I remember many great afternoons at Memorial Stadium watching Darryell Royal’s Longhorns, watching _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ at the old Americana Theater, and taking dates to Amy’s Ice Cream.” Trees don’t figure much into it. It’s not always things that you’re consciously aware of, though. Years after I moved to the east coast I was travelling out west and was struck by the huge, stacked interchanges where one freeway meets another. They don’t really have many of those in the east; not on the same scale at least. The land here was pretty heavily populated already, and they had to squeeze things in where they could. In the west it seemed like they built with the expectation of people coming, and land was cheap so they could do what they wanted. I could turn 360 degrees in my chair right now and tell you a dozen things that are different here from where I grew up, and that most people wouldn’t give a thought to. Romney’s comment about trees was kind of an awkward way to phrase it, but if that’s the thing that he noticed, it’s okay with me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-trees-the-right-height-mean/626949.md?page=1)