I just connected the dots...

You're the guy with the two lovely Alma trees by the pool...

Don't leave town.

Ever.

Sure, sure have your fun everyone... but you are missing the bigger picture here. I did this for you. For all fignuts!

This one simple act of defiance will, in years to come, be canonized in song and legend as the "shot heard around the world". 

Just picture us yelling out the window, "We're mad as hell and we aren't going to take it any more!"

This will ignite the birth of the  FLM (Fignut Liberation Movement) that will fight to take back the gardens from our detractors ( or at least a good chunk of garden with morning sun)

Stand tall, everyone, the battle for full fig rights has just begun!!

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I'm sure that when I explain it  to my wife in these terms, she will be understanding. Perhaps even moved...and proud. Yes proud..

She will, won't she?

Of course, she will...

OK,  on to Plan B.

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FMD, variegated leave colors would be a nice a way to present the 2 pots. Florists do it all the time.

Do I need to explain?

Lmao Rafed 

Just blame the sickness, not the man.   You can't be responsible for your actions. Until there are therapy programs for people like you, understanding, empathy, and compassion are what's required here.  Yes, I've heard that Obama may put such a program together with his universal healthcare package.   

You're a dead man, But I admire your items that Rafed feels are threatened.

You guys think the battle is over?

Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over till we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

--Bluto

You mean when Japan bombed Pearl .   ; )

Not according to Bluto,,,

"The Animal House call to arms transcends its historical imprecision by appealing to the brotherhood of all men and, by implication, the universal desire to get tanked wearing a bedsheet. Toga! Toga!"

Lovely looking fig trees. Best subject line ever!!!

Think "Animal House"!

Bluto loved figs too. :)

He is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

FMD....

Thanks for the 'straight line'...and, we wrote the jokes... at your expense.  Nice, lighthearted thread.  We could all use a good laugh, now and then.  Some very clever comments, and illustrations.   Plenty of "spit-takes" in this thread.

Thanks for having a great sense-of-humor...and thanks to all the frustrated stand-up comics who posted their "predictions".  Almost as good as a  Friar's Club Roast.

Frank

Post # 30...says it all.

Frank ( Bronxfigs )

Laughter is good medicine. Good for the mine and soul.

But,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,stick a fork in him. He's done!

Waiting with bated breath for the return of the wife

Dead Man Walking...

Neighbors walking thru FMD's former fig orchard...

I was thinking more bulldozer and less chainsaw.

It is more fun being single, anyway.

The word was topiary, not shrub. Topiary sounds more serious than shrub, and probably has more attachment.

FMD types
Sure, sure have your fun everyone... but you are missing the bigger picture here. I did this for you. For all fignuts!

FMD  - only if there dark types.

For the record, this is what those stupid azeleas looked like. If they didn't fruit after 3 years, I figured they had to go. Logical, right? 

And yes, Martin, one of the plants is a large, luscious, juicy, BLACK heirloom fig that dreams are made of. The last time I tasted it was at age 7 in the pastoral countryside setting of Calabria! Did I mention it is black?

A jury of my peers would acquit me faster than the time it takes a fignut to eat a dozen figs. Can I get an amen on that?

Question:

How many of you have spouses that love to eat the figs you've grown? How many of these same spouses have never complained about how, where, when and why you root so many cuttings...or where you plant them? Who has not heard the question, "So, what on earth are you going to do with all those figs?"

Do they think figs are conceived, immaculately? Do they think they drop from fig heaven right into the palm of their hand?

Nay, say I. It is high time we stand up for our rights and claim the entire garden, not just the part that they contemptuously thow at us like a scrap to a beggar.

Take back the garden!   Take back the garden!   Take back the garden!  

Take back the garden!   Take back the garden!    Take back the garden!  

Who's with me?