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Take one tumblweed (as it slowly drifts by) and place it on your head. Style it with a pair of clippers, then go to the saloon. In time all the varmints will be wearing them, and you may open a Tumblewig Salon (right next to the saloon) where you can prune and colour to your heart's content.
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Better than my dad's frisbee toupee. [+] |
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<Private Eye Neophiliac Entry> Are Tumbleweeds the new Custard?</PENE>
*edited because I can't type Neophiliac! |
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You have come a long way from "where can I get tumbleweeds in Australia", [benfrost]. I imagine you found a source. |
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Are tumbleweeds the new custard? It appears so. |
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Tumbleweeds were fairly common, in the part of Australia where I grew up. They used to pile up against the fences. |
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Oddly, it's native to neither Australia, nor the US. Around Odessa, in southern Russia, the tumbleweed is called the "Tartar Thistle". It was introduced to the US, probably South Dakota, by Russian immigrants in the 1870s. |
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It was first described as Salsola australis, in 1810, by a British botanist who discovered it in Australia, where it had apparently been introduced. It's also known as S.kali, S. pestifer, S. iberica, and S. tragus (which is now the accepted name for it). |
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Russian Immigrants brought along tumbleweeds? I can't see why for the life of me. However I am amused by the idea of people standing around on a ship as dozens of tumbleweeds roll around them. |
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I'm glad you live in a part of the world were tumbleweeds are so abundant. Up here in New Hampshire, we have to use stray cats and/or snow. |
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