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On Jan 21, 1:18 pm, hk wrote:
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On Jan 21, 11:30 am, harry krause wrote:
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On Jan 21, 10:55 am, harry krause wrote:
On Jan 20, 3:34 pm, wrote:
My brother (not by blood) is building a house on some land he got that
is a couple of miles off the exit ramp at route 10 and 75, think he is
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It's a very small town and a pretty much "isolated" area, but it is near
the Suwanee River. Used to drive by the road signs to Live Oak on my way
to and from Tallahassee. I think there was a truck stop on I-10 near
Live Oak. Maybe it was a burger joint.
I assume the name of the town comes from the "evergreen" oaks found
throughout Northern Florida (and much more of the southeast). It's a
nice wood, strong, but the damned trees are fragile and lose limbs easily.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's named after the live oaks that grow the
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Live_oak/liveoak.htm
What do you think the evergreen oaks are, village idiot?- Hide quoted text -
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Again, your childish low life insults show you don't know what in hell
you are talking about, Live Oaks aren't in any way or form
"evergreen". They are deciduous.
D'oh

From wiki:

Live oak or evergreen oak is a general term for a number of unrelated
oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to
share the character of *evergreen* foliage.

The name live oak comes from the fact that *evergreen oaks* are still
green and "live" in winter, when other oaks are dormant, leafless and
"dead"-looking. The name is used mainly in North America, where
evergreen oaks are widespread in warmer areas, along the Atlantic coast
from Virginia to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Texas and across
the southwest to California and southwest Oregon.

Evergreen oak species are also common in the warmer parts of Europe and
Asia, and are included in this list for the sake of completeness. These
species, although not having "live" in their common names in their
countries of origin, are colloquially called live oaks when cultivated
in North America.

When the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense,
it most commonly refers to the Southern live oak (the first species so
named), but can often refer to other species regionally.

The live oak is the official state tree of Georgia.

In Texas, a small grove of live oaks (Texas live oak or Southern live
oak) is known as a mott.

And now here is the boating reference for our New England boatbuilding
friend, which is why I brought up "live oak" in the first place.

Live oak was widely used in early American shipbuilding; the remarkable
resilience of the live oak planking versus its European counterpart in
part made the early American frigates so feared by enemy sailors. The
live oak of USS Constitution repelled the shot of HMS Guerriere so
effectively that one of her sailors was heard to shout, "Huzzah! Her
sides are made of iron!" The ship was given the nickname, Old Ironsides.
Live oak lumber is rarely used for furniture due to warping and twisting
while drying. It is used in shipbuilding and tool handles for its
strength, energy absorption, and density. Dry southern live oak lumber
has a specific gravity of 0.88, the highest of any North American hardwood.

You're a fourth-rate intellect, Loogy. You ought to pick fights with
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I know you have to try to make yourself as low as JimH with your
childish insults, but the fact remains that a Live Oak is deciduous.
There are thousands of references to just that. Try it.

No one claimed evergreen oaks didn't shed their leaves, doofus. Lots of
people "in da Souf" refer to live oaks as evergreen oaks, and so does
WIKI, probably the only reference you can reference.

As I suggested, you need to find a few fourth-rate intellects in here
for playmates. Try Wally, Dan, Herring, Bert, et cetera.