Google indicates sweetgum.
Ding-dong balls!
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2018 5:21:16 pm PST #21066 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
dcp - Jan 15, 2018 5:22:19 pm PST #21067 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Probably sweet gum [link]
Five-pointed leaves, great Fall colors, seed pods are a nuisance. The pods burn well, but not hot enough to make good firestarters.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2018 5:32:28 pm PST #21068 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I managed to cook a couple of more or less perfect hard boiled eggs to go in my ramen and salad tonight; came out of the shells without tearing, and the yolks were neither rubbery nor coated with that slimy greenish patina.
-t - Jan 15, 2018 5:36:17 pm PST #21069 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We always called those gumballs.
Sorry about your BiL's diagnosis, Bev.
amych - Jan 15, 2018 5:38:30 pm PST #21070 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Gumballs here too. Or alternately, "ouch wtf did I just step on".
dcp - Jan 15, 2018 5:45:41 pm PST #21071 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
We called them stickerballs.. Osage oranges were sometimes called horse apples.
-t - Jan 15, 2018 6:14:56 pm PST #21072 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had to google Osage oranges. I don't think I've ever seen one.
msbelle - Jan 15, 2018 6:30:19 pm PST #21073 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
huh, we called Osage oranges crabapples.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2018 7:41:17 pm PST #21074 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ditto here.
I just watched Gus Kenworthy win the men's slopestyle US Grand Prix—crossing my fingers he qualifies for the US skiing team in Pyeongchang.
WindSparrow - Jan 15, 2018 7:59:04 pm PST #21075 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
JZ, Bev, what a difficult thing. I'm so sorry.
Fuck cancer.