At 06:07 pm 18/05/2005 -0400, Jed wrote: > Grimer wrote: > >> Surely, man is part of nature, and the Eifel tower is as natural as an ant >> hill. >> Or do ants consider all those enormous anthills a blot on their landscape? > > If those African ants come over here as invasive species and start building > their hills everywhere, *I* will consider it an eyesore. I don't care what > the ants think. We already have mountains of invasive kudzu.
Never 'eard of it. I'll have to google. ======================================================= kud·zu (k?d'zu) n. An eastern Asian vine (Pueraria lobata) having compound leaves and clusters of reddish-purple flowers. It is grown for fodder, forage, and root starch, and is a widespread weed in the southeast United States. ======================================================= Mmm... sounds quite pretty to me. And if you tried to cull it no doubt a SPCK (Society for the Protection of Californian Kudzu) organisation would instantly be formed and start sit down protests outside your front door. ;-) Mind you, I know "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" but I'm no Romeo and I have to admit, the name Kudzu sounds pretty revolting. 8^( Frank
