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(Chron)   How many tumbleweeds does it take to bury a West Texas town?   (chron.com) divider line
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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-01-08 10:45:44 PM  
Violently proud of their self deprecating stereotypes
 
maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-08 11:00:02 PM  
Tumbleweeds are an invasive species that arrived in the US in 1870, like lobbyists.
 
kittyhas1000legs [TotalFark]
2023-01-08 11:09:48 PM  
They want the government to clean them up? How bootstrappy.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-09 2:40:22 AM  
They are seed pods blowing in the wind. WTF do you think will happen if you don't burn them?
 
schubie
2023-01-09 2:43:50 AM  

maxandgrinch: Tumbleweeds are an invasive species that arrived in the US in 1870, like lobbyists.


Yup. Both Russian.
 
nytmare
2023-01-09 2:44:29 AM  
You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.
 
felching pen [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 2:45:18 AM  
A Jerry can of gasoline and a zippy lighter, and problem solved.

/and the tumbleweed's gone, too
 
replacementcool
2023-01-09 2:49:29 AM  
it's texas so however many there are, it's not enough. not until we don't hear from them anymore.
 
Neondistraction
2023-01-09 2:51:10 AM  

nytmare: You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.


Duh.

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My Sober Alt
2023-01-09 2:56:41 AM  
Peter Rowan "Tumbleweed"
Youtube IS-MKvtwTbU
 
UltimaCS
2023-01-09 2:56:52 AM  

nytmare: You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.


Subby's mom, naturally.
 
Pointy Tail of Satan
2023-01-09 3:05:18 AM  
The tumbleweed always has me ROFL.

Undercover Brother - Final Fight Scene
Youtube XhcVeEyjPeA
 
darkone
2023-01-09 3:11:35 AM  
I don't know how many it would take, but I know how many they are going to use.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-09 3:15:20 AM  
"I don't want to go helping everyone if they can do it themselves. But if you REALLY need the services you pay taxes for... maybe we'll help you."

Holy f*ck they just say it out loud.

F*ck you, you're on your own.

What a fantastic place. Enjoy.
 
ktybear
2023-01-09 3:20:56 AM  

felching pen: A Jerry can of gasoline and a zippy lighter, and problem solved.

/and the tumbleweed's gone, too


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moku9
2023-01-09 3:21:07 AM  

maxandgrinch: Tumbleweeds are an invasive species that arrived in the US in 1870, like lobbyists.


true that, the weed came in when the US bought a bunch of orc wheat. more trivia; tumbleweeds can only propagate in disturbed soil and so aren't considered to be a big problem by the powers that be. well, not a problem until you can't enter/leave your house! um, setting fires in west-texas is likely a very bad idea.

other russian-thistle trivia; I read an article years ago about a guy -who would fit right in here- set up a fake web site promising to sell tumble weeds. he was shocked when emails started rolling in complaining that the sites' check-out process didn't work and so potential customers couldn't actually purchase any tumble weeds.  'murica!
 
433 [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 3:29:14 AM  

vudukungfu: Violently proud of their self deprecating stereotypes


This article is about tumbleweeds, though.  It is a good example of a tumbleweed town in the most literal sense.
 
ISO15693
2023-01-09 3:29:27 AM  
Those are the dessicated husks of ancient tribbles, freed by the wind, from the gravesites of the ancient Mayan/Tribble war of 1308
 
ISO15693
2023-01-09 3:31:59 AM  

Neondistraction: nytmare: You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.

Duh.

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Oh.nm
 
433 [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 3:32:02 AM  

ISO15693: Those are the dessicated husks of ancient tribbles, freed by the wind, from the gravesites of the ancient Mayan/Tribble war of 1308


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StoPPeRmobile
2023-01-09 3:34:21 AM  

felching pen: A Jerry can of gasoline and a zippy lighter, and problem solved.

/and the tumbleweed's gone, too


Cool! Mobile fireballs!

The Trouble With Tumbleweed
Youtube hsWr_JWTZss
 
Red Shirt Blues
2023-01-09 3:52:09 AM  

433: ISO15693: Those are the dessicated husks of ancient tribbles, freed by the wind, from the gravesites of the ancient Mayan/Tribble war of 1308

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bughunter [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-09 3:57:49 AM  

Neondistraction: nytmare: You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.

Duh.

[Fark user image 368x270]


That's my pornhub avatar.

The tribbles are metaphors for something else furry.

/but at my age, maybe I should change them to tumbleweeds
 
Neondistraction
2023-01-09 4:03:56 AM  

bughunter: Neondistraction: nytmare: You know who else is round, brown, and multiplies like crazy, impeding your mobility and threatening to overwhelm you.

Duh.

[Fark user image 368x270]

That's my pornhub avatar.

The tribbles are metaphors for something else furry.

/but at my age, maybe I should change them to tumbleweeds


I...uhhh...thanks for sharing?
 
kyuzokai [OhFark]
2023-01-09 4:27:05 AM  
I always thought tumbleweeds kinda slowly rolled along, and only in wild open spaces. Until I moved to Colorado and my commute home was interrupted one day by a million of the farkers screaming across the road bouncing and leaping off cars, piling up against houses and fences, and causing a general clusterfark all over. It was hilarious and frustrating in equal measure.
 
Excelsior
2023-01-09 4:37:51 AM  

fragMasterFlash: They are seed pods blowing in the wind. WTF do you think will happen if you don't burn them?


"Sounds like a down-winders problem" ?
 
Unobtanium [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-09 5:17:56 AM  
When our daughter was in 7th grade, they had an "art" class - drama and acting - twice a week. The teacher had them stage Macbeth. As a Western. I suggested then that Birnham Wood should be Birnham Tumbleweeds. She laughed and liked the idea, and used it. The Tumbleweeds were large balls of chicken wire.
 
sleze
2023-01-09 5:31:02 AM  
3rd world problems.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-01-09 5:36:41 AM  
Hooverphonic - Jackie Cane
Youtube dtEOf1rcED8
 
dryknife
2023-01-09 5:52:52 AM  
There is a West, Texas but it is in east Texas.
 
Fear the Clam
2023-01-09 6:05:48 AM  
When Mrs Clam and I lived in Lubbuck, she had eyes like saucers the morning we dodged a tumbleweed on the highway. Although I'd seen them in New Mexico, this was her first and she was thrilled. She went into work all excited, exclaiming "I saw my first tumbleweed! It was just like in the movies, but it was real! People were swerving to get out of the way." Her coworkers laughed.

/She didn't add that the only movies she'd seen with tumbleweeds involved ghost towns.
 
Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 6:44:18 AM  
Random science fact: there is a published scientific paper on the risk of tumbleweeds bumping into a sensitive gravitational wave observatory and messing up its measurements. Part of a Caltech dissertation, actually.
 
NathanAllen
2023-01-09 6:54:35 AM  
Cool, so when the snow is piled 4' on my driveway the Government is supposed to come help me out too?
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-01-09 6:56:13 AM  
"This lady is still waiting for the city to come and get them away from her front door and garage, it's been 3 days!" another wrote. "She isn't able to go anywhere or even get out of her front door."

Jesus Christ, Texas, they're lightweight, dried plant matter, not rabid wolves. Good thing you dainty little b*tches don't get much snow.
 
I May Be Crazy But...
2023-01-09 7:01:08 AM  

fragMasterFlash: They are seed pods blowing in the wind. WTF do you think will happen if you don't burn them?


They've already dropped the seeds.  Unless you're suggesting a full Exterminatus, Warhammer 40k style.
 
Nick Nostril
2023-01-09 7:25:42 AM  
I think I saw this on an episode of MST3K.
 
Tentacle
2023-01-09 7:31:37 AM  
Roy Rogers & Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Youtube JQc5gDXQGIs
 
Aquapope
2023-01-09 7:34:49 AM  
I'll take tumbleweeds over leaves any time.
 
Day_Old_Dutchie
2023-01-09 7:48:20 AM  

NathanAllen: Cool, so when the snow is piled 4' on my driveway the Government is supposed to come help me out too?


Well, they do come by with the plow after you've cleared you driveway and bury you again so there that.
 
dryknife
2023-01-09 7:52:24 AM  
I read somewhere about a woman that had a business selling tumbleweeds to Hollywood movie makers that were making westerns
 
question_dj [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 7:56:48 AM  
You haven't lived until you've hit a 4ft wide tumbleweed at 80mph.
 
TheSubjunctive
2023-01-09 8:13:50 AM  
So, the article helpfully explained that you shouldn't burn them and shouldn't put them in trash collection.  It notably did *not* say what residents *are* supposed to do with them.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-09 8:17:35 AM  

TheSubjunctive: So, the article helpfully explained that you shouldn't burn them and shouldn't put them in trash collection.  It notably did *not* say what residents *are* supposed to do with them.


Move as far away from Texas as possible.
 
TenJed_77
2023-01-09 8:33:05 AM  

moku9: maxandgrinch: Tumbleweeds are an invasive species that arrived in the US in 1870, like lobbyists.

true that, the weed came in when the US bought a bunch of orc wheat. more trivia; tumbleweeds can only propagate in disturbed soil and so aren't considered to be a big problem by the powers that be. well, not a problem until you can't enter/leave your house! um, setting fires in west-texas is likely a very bad idea.

other russian-thistle trivia; I read an article years ago about a guy -who would fit right in here- set up a fake web site promising to sell tumble weeds. he was shocked when emails started rolling in complaining that the sites' check-out process didn't work and so potential customers couldn't actually purchase any tumble weeds.  'murica!


But it goes so well with Karen's rustic chic decor and all of her sliding barn door closets. Not being able to add the tumbles weeds ruined the esthetic and Karen had to lower the price when she tried to flip the house.
/s
//fark anything ruZzian
\|/ Salva Ukraini
 
baka-san [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 8:46:07 AM  

dryknife: There is a West, Texas but it is in east Texas.


It's north of Waco, so not east Texas
 
BunkyBrewman [TotalFark]
2023-01-09 8:58:04 AM  
The HOA certainly isn't going to like this
 
Gough
2023-01-09 9:10:21 AM  

kyuzokai: I always thought tumbleweeds kinda slowly rolled along, and only in wild open spaces. Until I moved to Colorado and my commute home was interrupted one day by a million of the farkers screaming across the road bouncing and leaping off cars, piling up against houses and fences, and causing a general clusterfark all over. It was hilarious and frustrating in equal measure.


I've had that same experience driving I-84 in Oregon, east of The Dalles.  Truck drivers  driving along, with piles of tumbleweeds up against the fronts of their rigs.  The hard part was not flinching when I'd see a large rolling  shape appear in my peripheral vision.

A few years later, ODOT had a major cleanup.  For a good stretch of the drive, we were passing crews  collecting, piling, and burning tumbleweeds.  It seems to have been a successful undertaking.  In the 12-15 years since, I haven't had a repeat of that experience.
 
Dead for Tax Reasons
2023-01-09 9:25:24 AM  
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no need to worry until they can attack on command
 
Road_King
2023-01-09 10:02:00 AM  
"Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that."
 
Trucker
2023-01-09 10:11:52 AM  
Were they able to dig the town out?  If they were, then they didn't have enough tumbleweeds.

BTW, a little Napalm will take care of it quite quickly.
 
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