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acmespaceship ([personal profile] acmespaceship) wrote2009-02-12 03:05 pm

I am sick of stupid people: Garden Edition

This is a day to celebrate smart people like Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.  And I'll take Joe Garagiola, too, per [livejournal.com profile] shsilver  although I'll pass on Charles Van Doren (clever but ultimately not too smart, eh?)   This is not a day to waste our time on creationists or Congress or octuplet mothers or people who think vaccines cause autism (and that's just the CNN home page today).

And yet ...  I feel compelled to share this "money-saving tip" from a gardening magazine:

"After years of giving feed corn to our hungry squirrels during the winter...

"... and raking bushels of fallen acorns from our tree for garbage pickup, I finally put two and two together.  Now I gather all the nuts... the squirrels love eating them... I save a bundle of money by not paying for all that corn!"

YEARS!?  It took this guy YEARS to figure out that acorns are food for squirrels!? 

I bet he chops down trees and wonders why birds aren't nesting in his yard anymore. 


[identity profile] mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yah, and rakes up leaves and bags them and buys mulch...

[identity profile] rmjwell.livejournal.com 2009-02-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I can get him a great deal on an egress. Right this way....