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If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke. – Seneca Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have never seen anything like it before. The squirrel had its paw raised and the bird had its beak wide open, it was like they were going to have a fight. Karen Crawford, 59, captured the face-off as the pair appeared to be having a row over a handful of nuts on a tree trunk. In the shot, the red squirrel is perched vertically on a tree stump with its paw in the air, as the bird sits on the other side with its beak wide open. (Credit: SWNS) Perhaps even more remarkable, Crawford admitted she did not even realize she took the photos until she got home. I thought wow when I got home and saw the picture and the reaction I have had to it has been really strong. – Karen Crawford	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is different from how normal trees operate, where the water flow is driven by the water potential of the atmosphere, in this case, the stump has to follow what the rest of the trees do, because since it lacks transpiring leaves, it escapes the atmospheric pull. – Sebastian Leuzinger / iScience	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech, and, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live. – Andrew Yang	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He goes out on the stump in 1948 and becomes' give'em hell Harry Truman,' this is one key to how to come back from a shellacking is to turn against that Congress from the other party. – Barbara Perry	Found on CNN 5 years ago
No private party is actually going to stump up the kind of money needed to create these things. – Jim Steer	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I've seen some other candidates have felt like they needed to dial up the anger on the stump in some kind of appeal to voters. – Fergus Cullen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the governor has to find a way. My advice to him is ... keep your stump speech really short and let people ask questions. – Ray Tweedie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
His style is a little gruff. You can poke at him and get him angry, but he's good at rolling out of it, he's got numbers, he's got facts, and if he gets caught by surprise he'll shift really quickly to his stump message. I don't think Hillary stands a chance against him. – Richard Tarrant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Ben Carson I've seen on television is not the Ben Carson I've seen on the stump. – Pete Seat	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police. – Bertolt Brecht	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. – William S. Gilbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. – W. S. Gilbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.

– Seneca Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have never seen anything like it before. The squirrel had its paw raised and the bird had its beak wide open, it was like they were going to have a fight. Karen Crawford, 59, captured the face-off as the pair appeared to be having a row over a handful of nuts on a tree trunk. In the shot, the red squirrel is perched vertically on a tree stump with its paw in the air, as the bird sits on the other side with its beak wide open. (Credit: SWNS) Perhaps even more remarkable, Crawford admitted she did not even realize she took the photos until she got home. I thought wow when I got home and saw the picture and the reaction I have had to it has been really strong.

– Karen Crawford

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is different from how normal trees operate, where the water flow is driven by the water potential of the atmosphere, in this case, the stump has to follow what the rest of the trees do, because since it lacks transpiring leaves, it escapes the atmospheric pull.

– Sebastian Leuzinger / iScience

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech, and, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live.

– Andrew Yang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He goes out on the stump in 1948 and becomes' give'em hell Harry Truman,' this is one key to how to come back from a shellacking is to turn against that Congress from the other party.

– Barbara Perry

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No private party is actually going to stump up the kind of money needed to create these things.

– Jim Steer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I've seen some other candidates have felt like they needed to dial up the anger on the stump in some kind of appeal to voters.

– Fergus Cullen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the governor has to find a way. My advice to him is ... keep your stump speech really short and let people ask questions.

– Ray Tweedie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

His style is a little gruff. You can poke at him and get him angry, but he's good at rolling out of it, he's got numbers, he's got facts, and if he gets caught by surprise he'll shift really quickly to his stump message. I don't think Hillary stands a chance against him.

– Richard Tarrant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Ben Carson I've seen on television is not the Ben Carson I've seen on the stump.

– Pete Seat

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

– Bertolt Brecht

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

– William S. Gilbert

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

– W. S. Gilbert

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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