Amusing Moment in a Gardening Forum

As I write this (Sunday morning), there's a post on Garden Web's House Plants forum titled "Mum, can I prune them back?"

I haven't been logged into GW in a very long time, but I have been sorely tempted to do so just to leave the comment, "No, it's 'Mother, may I prune them back?'"


The actual question involves the appropriateness of cutting back an indoor Chrysanthemum¹ because the center of the plant has died back, but sometimes spelling out the whole word really does make a difference.

Also: comma splices, avoid them.²

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¹ Which is apparently possible in certain circumstances: the original poster claims to have had the plant for two years. I was not aware that this could happen.
² Yes, I know. It's a joke, like.