Friday, April 01, 2005
|Sweet death.|
Did you ever wonder what trees did with their sap before man harnessed the maple goodness to make syrup? They exploded. Maple trees produce far more sap than they can contain and, if left untapped, they explode.
This year there have been a record number of deaths due to maple tree explosions. The low-carb diet fad that's taken the world by storm has been devastating to the syrup industry. With no one buying syrup, it's counter-productive to continue tapping the trees and making syrup. So, the trees fill. And they explode, shooting limbs and maple blood hither and thither.
Death by sweet tree blood followed by decapitation by a projectile branch.
(This is based off of an NPR report which may or may not have been an April Fool's Day joke.)
Did you ever wonder what trees did with their sap before man harnessed the maple goodness to make syrup? They exploded. Maple trees produce far more sap than they can contain and, if left untapped, they explode.
This year there have been a record number of deaths due to maple tree explosions. The low-carb diet fad that's taken the world by storm has been devastating to the syrup industry. With no one buying syrup, it's counter-productive to continue tapping the trees and making syrup. So, the trees fill. And they explode, shooting limbs and maple blood hither and thither.
Death by sweet tree blood followed by decapitation by a projectile branch.
(This is based off of an NPR report which may or may not have been an April Fool's Day joke.)
promulgated by SWS2.1 at 17:55.
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1 Comments:
Joke or fact, the thought of exploding maple trees is pretty funny... tickles my fancy if you will (and why wouldn't you?).
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Shananigans, at
5:48 PM
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