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by Cat on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:35:37 AM EST
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For someone with the registered artist name of Roland Butter, among several others, I failed to spot that one coming.

Let's not mention nutello or an almighty culinary conflagration, in which munching hordes march to war bearing banners of lemons or tree sap  will be set loose. It would spoil J's party.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:51:54 AM EST
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WE do not even in jest refer to the sacred sweetener as tree sap.  ;-)

We even have a winter ceremony called Thanks to the Maple.
And a small pouch of Pemmican (deer meat, corn, dried berries and maple, dried in chunks) can last a hunter weeks.  Never tried it with marmite, however.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 01:05:27 PM EST
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We also have a sacred ceremony on Midsummer (if we are in Sweden) called Thanks to the Maypole. Here in Finland we prefer to burn things  instead of celebrating the great phallus being forced into the earth to fertilize it. Don't ask me why. Oxidation is equally valid as an observance of rebirth- just ask the phoenix.



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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 01:30:26 PM EST
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Hah!  well said.

we have some fests in summer too, but it would hard to discuss how sex is a sacred celebration.  oh, we do stages of corn and harvest thanks kind of things too, regularly, but the sex and dream fests seem to have the most devoted attendance.

Probably 'cuz the elders get a kick out of watching the young uns run off into the woods.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 01:51:50 PM EST
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Embarassingly, I didn't understand that phallus-and-balls symbolism of the Maypole until I was like 18. Alienated from the agricultural base?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 02:13:18 PM EST
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Like Harry B. Helmsley, you must be a late developer ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 02:18:50 PM EST
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There be 'friggin in the fields' by morning!

Bob Wilson maintained all religions boiled down to one of two conclusions following acceptance of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution:

  1.  Sex is good for the crops
  2.  Sex is bad for the crops

& everything else is either a smoke screen or follows.
by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 04:21:09 PM EST
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Or in the case of Christine Keeler, crops are good for sex.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 04:42:42 PM EST
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Jeez, that was - like - 57 bimbos ago.

KEEP UP, dude!

by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 06:03:15 PM EST
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Thanks to ceebs's tip below, I can show a probably uncaring world the very spot, on the soft grass, where I first did my bit to help the crops. With my then sweetheart, who also sacrificed to the good of the crops for the first time. On a full-moon night in June, entirely indicated for crop-helping endeavours.

Google Earth is one fucking wicked time machine.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 05:23:59 PM EST
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Did you keep records to see what, if any, affects that had?  

If not I suggest, in the interests of science, re-running the experiment over a long enough time period to gather sufficient data to provide a conclusion.

Since we're dealing with a great many unknowns here we have to admit the potential for the phenomena under consideration being triggered - without evidence one hesitates to draw too rapid a conclusion - along Quantum, Catastrophe, or Emergent Behavior lines.  Thus, it's conceivable the SoCE (Sex on Crop Effect) requires, on may put it, a large amount of whoopie per hectare to manifest.

I suggest a Request for Funding be written and sent to the appropriate French and EU agronomy departments and agencies in order to properly study the matter.
 

by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 05:57:47 PM EST
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I suppose that would be  a useful piece of paper to have if you were detained whilst enjoying outdoor activities, if you could arrange funding.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 06:04:11 PM EST
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My suggestion is emphatically NOT "enjoying outdoor activities."  It IS, rather, a Serious Scientific Project©™® that may settle several fundamental questions regarding the foundation of religion(s) and, perhaps, initiate a Second Green Revolution.  

The laboratories, if I may call them that, will of course be screened so that experiments may be conducted under the proper APA safeguards and ethical protocols.  Those outside of the research team will not be allowed within the research and test areas.

(Unless they buy the moderately priced tickets available only at the entrance to the observation deck.)

{And I'd better add:  :-) }

by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 06:27:01 PM EST
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But surely you'll need to run randomised blind controls where there will be some tests done without screens, in case its the screens that cause the change in growth.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 06:33:04 PM EST
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The cover of night hides many things.
by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2010 at 09:43:06 PM EST
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There may be some venture capitalists ready to provide seed funding.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 01:00:14 AM EST
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Especially given that the seed... well, never mind.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 05:46:30 AM EST
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I haven't seen that field in forty something years, so haven't kept records. But would happily start again and maintain regular activity, (if the fate of the world depended on it, of course).

Funding would be appreciated, but it would depend on the English, not the French...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 05:45:09 AM EST
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