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Finally, an answer to that vexing question: What the hell's a buckeye?

By adamg on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 12:13pm

Turns out the Arboretum has one - in fact, it's one of the first plants it ever got.

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By MattyC on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 12:18pm.

O-H

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By Brutus on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 12:54pm.

I-O!

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By Dustin Salzedo on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 9:04pm.

That. Is. All.

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By anon on Fri, 08/09/2013 - 9:57pm.

we pronounce both o's

at least we do north of I-70, the twang line, but they do alot differently down there

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By Laurence Glavin on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 1:00pm.

The Arboretum has somebody on its staff named Maggie Redfern? Next you'll be telling me that the Horticulture Director at the Garden in the Woods in Framingham is named Scott LaFleur. Oh, wait...

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By anon on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 12:33pm.

by wolverines.

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By anon on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 1:47pm.

Really? Have you watched in the past 10 years to what we have done to the state up north?

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By MattyC on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 1:48pm.

2000 Michigan 38 Ohio State 26 Columbus
2001 Michigan 20 Ohio State 26 Ann Arbor
2002 Michigan 9 Ohio State 14 Columbus
2003 Michigan 35 Ohio State 21 Ann Arbor
2004 Michigan 21 Ohio State 37 Columbus
2005 Michigan 21 Ohio State 25 Ann Arbor
2006 Michigan 39 Ohio State 42 Columbus
2007 Michigan 3 Ohio State 14 Ann Arbor
2008 Michigan 7 Ohio State 42 Columbus
2009 Michigan 10 Ohio State 21 Ann Arbor
2010 Michigan 7 Ohio State 37 Columbus
2011 Michigan 40 Ohio State 34 Ann Arbor
2012 Michigan 21 Ohio State 26 Columbus

I am fine with 10-3 vs the bad guys in the last 13 years. Muck Fichigan!

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By anon on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 5:12pm.

...peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. But the tree versions are kind of pretty, I guess...

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By Dustin Salzedo on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 9:03pm.

Buckeyes are useless, poisonous nuts which fairly accurately resemble the eyes of, well, bucks. "Buckeyes" are inhabitants of a state which is on the east, Appalachian, the northeast an original piece of iceberg calved Connecticut (the Western Reserve), bits and pieces of the 1812 war trophy lands to veterans (the NW Firelands), and across the southern third, the Zane Trace. Buckeye land was home to a large proportion of comedians (Bob Hope, Jonathan Winters, Dean Martin, Phyllis Diller, Paul Lynde, Drew Carey) and astronauts (John Glenn, Neil Armstrong). One can go from Yankee NE a la Cleveland, follow the highway to all corn all the time Columbus, and end up in the New South Cincinnati.

Ohio is a weird place, and Buckeyes fill the bill.

Oh - it doesn't have a state flag. Nosiree, it has a pennant.

Anon was also dead onto rights about the candy = them's the best Buckeyes.

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