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- From: ceci@lysator.liu.se (Cecilia Henningsson)
- Subject: Re: Christmas tree alternative?
- Message-ID: <1997@lysator.liu.se>
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- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- References: <1992Nov17.092118.5813@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1ebjuaINNgh3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:09:40 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov17.092118.5813@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- >maxfield@athena.cs.uga.edu (Joan C. Maxfield) writes:
- >> Does anyone have any ideas for 'alternate' types of christmas
- >> trees?
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- educ@unixg.ubc.ca (Vicki Domansky) writes:
- >Ikea has a neat idea. You "buy" a real living Christmas tree from
- >them, root ball and all. Then they'll come pick it up after Christmas
- >and take it away to be planted, sold, or whatever. You might check
- >and see if there is an Ikea store nearby, or perhaps some other stores
- >or groups might offer a similar service.
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- They used to do that here too, and then make butter knives out of the
- wood. Unfortunately, they stopped doing it after only one year. I have
- no idea as to why. Any Ikea employee who could tell us? Anyway,
- juniper butter knives are much nicer than spruce ones. Juniper wood
- smell wonderfully!
-
- --Ceci, being ethnocentric again
- (Ikea originates in Sweden)
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- Linkoeping, Sweden is situated on a fertile plain in the south-east
- part of Sweden. To its south Sweden's biggest belt of oakwoods
- stretches and to its north the lake Roxen lies. It is in Zone 2, of
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