A Nut Question? Something to Think About!

[Robin Cox]

Ok, you have the walnut on the walnut tree.....you have the chestnut on the chestnut tree.....you have the hickory nut on the hickory tree....and all the other nuts and their trees.....then you have one of the most popular trees, the oak and it's acorn....why is it not called an oaknut???? Think About It!!!!!

 

[LaRue Medlin]

Oaknut you say?????

The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn



hmmmmmmmmmmm



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[Thomas Rogers]

For some reason this reminded me of a dirty joke I once heard...

 

[Bill V]

Or you can make it simple, and call the tree an "acorn tree" like my youngest kid does...

 

[Steve McKellop]

Some acorns, or oak nuts, are just rotten..........

 

[Wes Davis]

I have also heard them called acorn trees.

 

[Dominoelover thegamenotthepizza]

I guess even a Numb Nut is from a family tree! :banana:

 

[Robert Caffyn]

What about the peanut? No tree. Grows underground. Its a "bushnut"? Just thinking, Bob

 

[Jimmy Lavoie]

TJR,

For some reason this reminded me of a dirty joke I once heard...

Chinnut?

 

[Gavin Allan]

Trucknut?

 

[Bill V]

Beer Nut?

 

[TomT]

You guys are all nuts!

:banana:

 

[Robert Thomas]

"Nuts" General Anthony McAuliffe - December 1944



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