On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:32:09 GMT, (Andy Spragg)
wrote:

Serendipity pushed briefly to the front of
the queue on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:59:59 +0100, and nailed this to the
shed door:

^ On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:30:24 GMT, (Andy Spragg)
^ wrote:
^
^ "Akkerman's Plektrum" pushed
^ briefly to the front of the queue on Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:37:00 +0000
^ (UTC), and nailed this to the shed door:
^
^ ^ I chainsawed my (inherited) conifers to within 4" of the ground. What now?
^ ^ Will they stop growing or do I need to do something else to kill the roots?
^ ^ I'm sure some people move house because they have lost control over their
^ ^ conifers!!
^
^ Grab your fork, and FOCUS on the task at hand ...

^ With respect Andy, using a fork - or most any other garden digging
^ tool - to remove the root of a mature conifer is akin to scrubbing
^ the M1 with a tooth brush.

With respect yourself (grits teeth), you are missing the POINT. Seeing
as you have been married at least 50 years, you must be of pensionable
age, and can be completely excused for not getting the joke (I did
capitalize it to signal its presence). However, I did think that most
people would recognise it as tongue-in-cheek even if they didn't get
the joke.

Anyway, he never said they were mature. I removed our three stumps
quite successfully using only a garden fork. They were only a few
inches in diameter; maybe A'sP's are too.

Andy
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Oh! I did miss the point didn't I?
... and there was me thinking that the use of a chain saw indicated
something like a tree sized tree! Also the thought that "I'm sure some
people move house because they have lost control over their conifers,"
showed the path of the contribution.

I understood that capitalising a word indicated shouting, but of
course it means inverted commas as in 'FOCUS' and perhaps 'POINT'.
Silly me!

Coincidentally as no one else saw the joke either, perhaps
it's your sense of humour that's erring a little?

Perhaps my contribution was more apposite
to the original contributor than your unfocussed joke. Geddit?

Regards...
Poor old doddering John.
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