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Post by gato on Jul 29, 2020 8:18:54 GMT -5
So, the other morning I hear a knock at my door. No one there when I open it, but on my doorstep I find a plastic, pint-size jug of green liquid. On the jug is a tag that, translated from the Chinese, says "Drinking me is all to be good for your limbs and future." Naturally, I uncorked that jug and guzzled the contents. Not really, but how about this: "The USDA and agriculture officials in multiple states have issued warnings about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them. 'USDA is aware that people across the country have received suspicious, unsolicited packages of seed that appear to be coming from China,' the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said in a statement Tuesday. It said it is working closely with federal and state partners, including Customs and Border Protection, to investigate." How many people are there, do you think, gullible enough that they'll go ahead and plant those seeds "just to see what happens'? www.cbsnews.com/news/china-seeds-americans-mail-unsolicited/ |
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Post by Leftee on Jul 29, 2020 8:26:12 GMT -5
Oh yeah... they’re out there.
And, no doubt, some has ground them and snorted/smoked them by now too.
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Post by Vibroluxer on Jul 29, 2020 8:41:20 GMT -5
They're trying to feed the world in their own way. 🤓
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Post by gato on Jul 29, 2020 9:54:48 GMT -5
They're trying to feed the world in their own way. 🤓 I wonder which mailing lists the Chinese are using? Lists of people who have purchased items offered on late night infomercials? |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 29, 2020 10:10:46 GMT -5
Who has not been the victim of unsolicited foreign seed at least once...
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Post by Leftee on Jul 29, 2020 10:20:55 GMT -5
Who has not been the victim of unsolicited foreign seed at least once... 👋 |
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Jul 29, 2020 11:08:18 GMT -5
These seeds are for the magic bean stalk.
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Post by Taildragger on Jul 29, 2020 11:29:58 GMT -5
But we've already gotten so much goodness from China lately...now more?
Oh, goody...
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 29, 2020 11:57:11 GMT -5
I think I’ve read enough fairy tales and such that I know better than to plant random seeds of unknown etiology. It’ll either be the beanstalk/giant issue or a man eating plant.
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Post by hilltop87 on Jul 29, 2020 13:12:57 GMT -5
Is this how you really make Chinese food?
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Post by StoryTeller on Jul 29, 2020 13:28:25 GMT -5
When I read that article, my thoughts went to the series of books written (and still being written) by David Gerrold he calls The War Against the Chtorr. They are invading Earth by changing the ecology, beginning with new invasive plants.
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Post by Taildragger on Jul 29, 2020 14:50:06 GMT -5
I reckonnize those!
They're seeds of the Fifth Columnist plant!
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Post by LVF on Jul 29, 2020 15:00:19 GMT -5
I like the idea that they may be seeds for Chinese take out. Question is...is it Mandarin or Szechuan.  |
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Post by gato on Jul 29, 2020 16:04:58 GMT -5
Anyone remember "The Day of the Triffids?"
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Post by Larry Madsen on Jul 29, 2020 16:38:18 GMT -5
I've always wanted some Chinese Iris.  |
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Post by modbus on Jul 29, 2020 17:27:44 GMT -5
Feed me, Seymour.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 29, 2020 18:38:14 GMT -5
Woman on the local news said she planted hers and morning glories sprouted.
No word on whether they were man eating morning glories. They are probably just biding their time.
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Post by Leftee on Jul 29, 2020 18:40:02 GMT -5
Those would be mourning glories.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 29, 2020 18:56:26 GMT -5
Devouring glories?
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Post by Ragic on Jul 29, 2020 21:43:26 GMT -5
I think they are Professor Copperfield's Miracle Legumes.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Jul 30, 2020 18:26:25 GMT -5
They're trying to feed the world in their own way. 🤓 I wonder which mailing lists the Chinese are using? Lists of people who have purchased items offered on late night infomercials? Folks that bought Chinese toilet paper and waited two months for those special Chinese mini-rolls to arrive. My seeds should be here any day. |
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Post by gato on Aug 3, 2020 15:56:43 GMT -5
Imagine if today's headline was:
"People swallowing handfuls of unordered capsules sent randomly from China"
Or
"People igniting mysterious red sticks from China with fuses labeled 'light me'."
Because in The Guardian today:
"Americans have been planting mystery seeds which appeared to be sent from China, unaware of government warnings to dispose of the suspicious shipment
"Four people who have come forward after apparently randomly receiving the seeds have since contacted their local agricultural departments to collect the resulting mystery plants – or in some cases, fruitless seeds".
“We brought them down here and planted the seeds just to see what would happen, every two weeks I’d come by and put Miracle Grow on it and they just started growing like crazy,” Doyle Crenshaw, of Arkansas, told local news channel 5News.
This all brings me closer to understanding the mindset of people who attend raves, and eagerly swallow pills from the sweaty palms of utter strangers, "just to see what happens."
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