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Default Very expensive nuts

On Sunday, January 6, 2013 7:27:20 PM UTC-6, pure kona wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:45:05 -0500, Dave Smith
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> >On 06/01/2013 7:43 PM, Bryan wrote:

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> >> On Sunday, January 6, 2013 3:06:00 PM UTC-6, John Kuthe wrote:

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> >>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:01:34 -0800 (PST), ImStillMags

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> >>>> We had hickory trees on our property when I was a child. We never

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> >>>> ate the nuts but we fed them to the pigs.

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> >> Those pigs must have had some serious teeth. The shells are like solid wood.

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> >Pigs do have serious teeth. Do you ave a body you want to get rid of?

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> >... pigs.

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> Pigs have extremely strong jaws/teeth. We used to have lots of
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> macadamia nut trees and apparently Macadamia, being totally round and
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> thick-shelled as well, have been called the world's hardest nut to
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> Why did we cut down all of our Macadamia nut trees? Because the
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> horde of wild pigs who live in the forest above, would come down and
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> crack them all night. Sounded like a "pop gun" going off each time.
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> It was the pig's constant presence and ruination of our farm land that
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> made us cut down the trees. My vet. said that if pigs ate only
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> macadamia nuts, they would eventually lose their teeth. We couldn't
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> wait that long.
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> fwiw


I bet macadamia fed pigs would be tasty. Weren't you allowed to shoot them?
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> aloha,
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> Cea


--Bryan