No. ‘‘Tis unique here.
Them’s my initials.
3 out of of 4 isn’t bad. I’ll let you figure out which 3 you are. Ask a kid, they’re brutally honest.
Thorny locust is a tree.
It’s a very stubborn sort of tree; once it gets its roots down somewhere, it’s really hard to get rid of. It’s definitely a member of an invasive species. And it’s thorny. A lot of people don’t like it.
It also makes fantastic fence posts; untreated wood lasts many years even in wet ground. And it makes extremely good firewood; will keep you warm all night and all winter. And it’s arguably a nitrogen fixer, feeding other plants around it.
So: not to everybody’s taste. But certainly has its good points.
– I developed a liking for it years ago, while simultaneously trying to keep it from taking over an old vineyard and using its fenceposts to hold up the vineyard trellis.
A tree! Never knew. (Images, thorny locust tree: https://is.gd/NAU7dG.) Those thorns look brutal.
According to wiki its natural range is centered in the southern Mississippi River drainage basin states. Map here, https://is.gd/Pksqmv. Interesting, thanks.
Fairly common by now – fairly common by at least thirty years ago now – in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. I think it’s been spreading since they did that map.
The thorns IME are more often on the young growth than on the tree trunks. But they can indeed be brutal; despite caution I’ve had a few of them in me.
I assume this is meant to be a pun.
Yikes! I actually didn’t think of that. Hard to see how I missed it, now.
Whoops – taking a second look – that’s honey locust. The thorny locust I’m thinking of is black locust. Still thorny, but not as drastic, and thorns mostly on young growth; and more northerly range, though probably originally not this far north.
ETA link, scroll down for spines picture:
Boskone had better developed villains. The Arisians were pretty bland, 'cept for their cool names: Brolenteen, Drounli, Kriedigan, and Nedanillor.
A SF writer named Harry Harrison wrote nearly a dozen novels with my SDMB name in them, I have read them all and most are on my bookshelf, so it just felt right when I wanted to come up with something that was not a play off of my name.
Colibri is Spanish for hummingbird. I did my doctoral thesis on hummingbirds in Panama.
My avatar is the Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus.
That was awfully prescient of him.
Fan of Bo Kimble. Also, I like the sound of Kimble. And Dr. Richard Kimble is an okay guy.
The first site I went to where Kimble was taken was an IRC server where people would livechat Houston Rockets games. Since I was there to follow Dan Langhi, the first NBA player from my alma mater since before I went there, I added his number 14 to the end. Nowadays, for obvious reasons, I’ve ditched that; my first choice of addon number is 42 (Langhi wore that at Vanderbilt, alongside the whole Ultimate Answer thing).
If you’re a 'Bilt guy why the Nashville logo?
- I have season tickets for Nashville SC.
- I like that logo (at least the N part of it – the whole logo with the octagon and Nashville SC is pretty clunky) more than I do Vanderbilt’s logos.
- The bright yellow shows up better than Vanderbilt’s black and gold; on the old board, I’d use that in lieu of the semi-broken “First Unread” features.
Mine is a local colloquialism. It is a shortened version of “Yes indeed, by God, Captain, I heartily agree with your stated opinion!”
Thank you. You do realize there’s yet another? He’s @Trip, and I hear he’s got far better hair than either of us.
Tripler
Like . . . John Stamos-good hair.
The hair that grows out of his left ear?
Rest in Peace, Hank Gathers.