Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 24, 2023

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    Ratkin Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Wooden you know it, the boy’s board with the history lesson.

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    Pet  over 1 year ago

    Histree

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    Botulism Bob  over 1 year ago

    There’s nothing like researching your family tree.

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    Lee26 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    When does he get to the part that his ancestors died to make that book?

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    joegeethree  over 1 year ago

    “I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.”

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    BadCreaturesBecomeDems  over 1 year ago

    And now the tree lobby wants reparations…

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    DM2860  over 1 year ago

    After New England was settled, much of the British ships were built with New England trees. It was the first great trade good of the Americas before tobacco and rice. (Cotton did not become king until the invention of the cotton gin. Furs were big for the French.)

    So the log cabins and the ships were frequently built with American trees after the initial colonies.

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    geese28  over 1 year ago

    Yep you’re quite committed

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    Doug K  over 1 year ago

    Some just kind of lumber along.

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    Frank Burns Eats Worms  over 1 year ago

    This must be elementree school.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I see the kid and his father, but where’s Ms. Tree? It’s a great unknown.

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    gammaguy  over 1 year ago

    When the sapling asked what part they might play in the nation’s history, the teacher was stumped.

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    Lablubber   over 1 year ago

    Some of our relatives are in Brooklyn.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    And they left hundreds of thousands of our ancestors’ stumps in the ground…

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    b.john71  over 1 year ago

    But Dad I’m board!

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It is said that when the European colonisers first came ashore a squirrel could start in Massachusetts and reach the Pacific coast jumping from tree to tree and not touch ground. It might have to detour into what is now northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta before reaching Puget Sound, but it could make the trip.

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    aerilim  over 1 year ago

    And don’t forget the pages of this book…

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    fishbulb239  over 1 year ago

    Don’t forget that you’ll also serve as the inspiration for street names after you’re all chopped down to make room for endless, unchecked sprawl.

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    ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago

    As for the other branch of the family. they’re just toothpicks.

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