# You are the reason I am a tree
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 17, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992 "2011-03-17T02:35:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/1 "2011-03-17T02:35:43Z")
I thought you might want to know.
Last year, I asked for SDMB help with a Purim costume and somehow ended up as the sun. For a given definition of “sun”. Basically, I arranged some red/orange/yellow/ish scarves into a headdress, then spent the day confusing the heck out of people. “Okay, so what are you… an autumn tree? Modern sculpture?”
I got the tree comment enough times that I decided, hey, with a little modification I totally could be a tree. An actual recognizable tree. So now I have a (much nicer) headdress of leaves that I just finished sewing. Come Purim (that’s tomorrow night, for those of you not keeping track) I will wear all brown and have my leaf hat on and I will be a tree.
Mundane, pointless, and full of chlorophyll.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/2 "2011-03-17T02:37:13Z")
You totally should have said “chlorofilled.”
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/3 "2011-03-17T02:45:20Z")
:smack:
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/4 "2011-03-17T02:51:56Z")
[JK]
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast?
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray?
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair?
[/JK]
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/5 "2011-03-17T03:00:24Z")
Whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast?
Tree!
Damn right.
Who’s got the leaves that won’t drop out
When there’s winter all about?
Pine!
Can ya dig it?
I hear that tree is one chlorofilled carbon-sequesterer.
Shut your mouth!
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/6 "2011-03-17T03:01:06Z")
Any way to post a pic?
I wrote a little play for my Sunday School class(second/third graders) based on the story of Esther. Of course all the girls wanted to be Esther and wear the crown, but I gave a lot of scenery chewing to Haman as well.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/7 "2011-03-17T03:04:10Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> Shut your mouth!
😕
We’re just talkin’ 'bout Tree.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/8 "2011-03-17T03:05:04Z")
All you need as an “I’d Turn Back If I Were You” sign and you can whip apples at the kid in the Tinman suit & the girl with the pig-tails.
Ok, maybe that isn’t exactly in the holiday spirit…
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/9 "2011-03-17T03:07:25Z")
You might go with a little Julius Streicher effigy hanging from one of your branches.
([Look up his next-to-last words](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher))
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/10 "2011-03-17T03:48:52Z")
Sounds like a great costume! Good for you. You went out on a limb and decided to branch out a little. Now your creativity has really taken root. Stick with it!
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/11 "2011-03-17T05:08:40Z")
This is my new favorite thread title.
Second place: Should I see Tron before I see Tron?
You win because I love trees. I can’t wait to see pics.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/12 "2011-03-17T05:17:57Z")
[Tree!!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmDX8Uc5pk)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/13 "2011-03-17T06:45:11Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> Stick with it!
A less emphatic timber to your post, if you wood - otherwise the OP might leaf.
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/14 "2011-03-17T06:59:48Z")
~donates chainsaw to thread participants~
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/15 "2011-03-17T14:15:31Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#):
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> ~donates chainsaw to thread participants~
Timber…!
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/16 "2011-03-17T14:21:21Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> Sounds like a great costume! Good for you. You went out on a limb and decided to branch out a little. Now your creativity has really taken root. Stick with it!
Ugh, terrible, terrible!
Why don’t you make like a tree…
…and get outa here?
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/17 "2011-03-17T18:59:57Z")
Sorry, guys, my mind’s been a bit confused lately. Purim Sunday night. Today is the Fast of Esther, which is usually right before Puriom but never on a Shabbat or Friday. I have not been completely with it at all times.
> [@Baker](#):
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> Any way to post a pic?
Probably.
I don’t like putting pictures of myself on the Internet. Would it be okay if I just showed the hat?
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/18 "2011-03-20T16:51:49Z")
Yes, this year’s costume is working out much better- almost everyone can tell what I am now.
On request:
[http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/751/051i.jpg](http://img859.imageshack.us/i/051i.jpg/)
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/19 "2011-03-20T16:57:54Z")
Not just a tree, you are The Tree of Life!
Etz Chaim!
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-reason-i-am-a-tree/574992/20 "2011-03-21T20:42:16Z")
Now I just have to figure out how to repurpose it for a Seder prop.
_looks leaf hat over, turns it around, looks leaf hat under_
It’s not like there was a plague of trees…
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