LOLSpathiphyllum

The dame said she had a case for me. I put down my glass, looked her over, and said, "It looks like a case of spider mites, lady, and you can keep it."

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Haven't done one of these in a while. I am quite honestly surprised that the idea had legs enough for three posts, never mind eleven of them.

The above is a picture of the fifteen four-inch Spathiphyllums I bought at Lowe's last Thursday. Why so many? Indeed, why any at all, given that I'm not that fond of them? They were only $0.50 apiece (marked down from $0.99 (marked down from $1.99 (marked down from $3.97))), and I didn't see anything wrong with them, other than the dead flowers needed to be pulled off. Which apparently Lowe's finds it more time-effective to hand-write little yellow stickers with new prices on them than to just clean up the plants occasionally. (It must be such a weird place for anyone who's actually fond of plants to work. Comments can be anonymous here at PATSP, so come on, oppressed big box garden center workers: tell me some stories.)

Anyway. I figure I know how to keep them going well enough, I can keep them for a little while and then resell them through the consignment store in Iowa City that accepts plants (my cut of which would likely be $1.50). Good for me, and better for the plants than lingering for days and then getting tossed in a dumpster. Or whatever it is Lowe's does with the plants they kill. If I'd wanted, I could have gotten another, like, 25 of them, but 15 already seemed excessive. (I mainly got that many so I could take the flat they were in as well: I am seriously coveting plastic flats lately.)

It's not especially lucrative, but you have to go with the opportunities you see. In theory.

When I mentioned this at Twitter on Thursday, sometime PATSP commenter Lance suggested that "Flip This Plant" would make a good new show for Bravo (especially since "Flip This House" appears to be in a bit of trouble, conceptually: hard to flip houses when nobody's buying them, much less resell them for more money than you bought them for). I'm afraid it would be kind of slow. Maybe it's more HGTV's speed. I'm open to being the object of a bidding war. Bravo, HGTV: my e-mail address is in the sidebar. Have at.

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The tropical plants at work are actually hanging in there pretty well, considering that they're not getting anywhere near the usual amount of care while we're preoccupied with the annuals and seedlings and so forth. But we do miss a few. Can't really be helped.

Previous LOLSpaths here.

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Haven't done one of these in a while. Tragically, right as I'm getting a lot of Mouse-&-Trowel-related traffic, I've also gotten hit by the cold that people have been passing around at work for months, so I'm not thinking clearly enough to write anything terribly good. I mean, it's not like I'm rolling around on the floor screaming in agony. I just have that thing that happens with colds where you can't concentrate on anything very well, and you can feel that your brain's not really hitting on all cylinders. This is probably a good thing, in a backhanded kind of way: I think I get funnier when I'm sick (because my brain leaps from topic to topic more easily).

Anyway. For more LOLSpaths, and maybe even an explanation of what they are, click here.

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I know I'm kind of repeating myself already, but there are only so many LOLcat gags that translate to plants, and time has gotten kind of limited. So.

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I don't think there's anything I can add to this.

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It's that time again . . . .

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I have to say, I'm surprised that Spathiphyllum would be the plant that I would choose for this project. Or that it would choose me. Whatever. I suspect the ultimate reason is that "cat" and "spath" share a vowel sound, so the progression from LOLcat to LOLSpath seemed more natural.

I'm not saying it's meaningful or important, just that it's surprising to me.

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As with previous LOLSpath posts, confused persons are invited to look elsewhere on line for an explanation. A new page I'm recommending is here, though this, which I was recommending previously, should also more or less work.

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I know these aren't everyone's taste. (Not that anybody's complained -- I just know they're not.) But this one, when I saw how it turned out, actually did make me chuckle a little. So I hope everyone will be willing to indulge me from time to time.


(Explanation of lolcats, from which these derive, was here.)

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For those of you who have somehow managed to miss the whole LOLcats phenomenon and are looking at this saying, "What the hell?", please click here for an explanation. Picture was created using the Awesum Cheezeburger Factory LOLcat Builder.

There will be more LOLSpaths, though it's harder than it looks, so probably not very many or very often.