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• Today's mighty oak is yesterday's little nut that held its ground.
• A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!
  -- H. F. Chorley (1831-1872) -- The Brave Old Oak...
• I had the greatest gift of all. A little girl who could pick football.
  -- Homer, "Lisa the Greek...
• Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone!
  And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!...
• What's the point of not eating? You're the only one who's suffering.
  Do I look like its bothering me? Okay, its bothering me....
• An egg has the shortest sex-life of all: if gets laid once
  it gets eaten once. It also has to come in a box with 11 others, and the only person who will sit on its face is its mother....
• You are in a room with a hugh oak table with curious carvings around the the edges.
  On the wall to the west is a tapestry depicting a great battle battle where the elves were able to defeat the Necromancer, but their greatest greatest weapon was broken into four pieces....
• Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink
  whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...