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Mother Nature's A Bitch Fan: Star Wars Plants

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These are some plant parts from a New York Times article about I have no idea what but look -- the Millennium Falcon! Sure somebody just cut a leaf to look like an iconic spaceship, but that's newsworthy, isn't it?* Also, chestnuts: haha -- you passed out with your shoes on!

*D-bag say no

Picture [nytimes]

Thanks to Dustin, who once found a tree that looked like slave Leia but I rented a backhoe and uprooted it and took the gold bikini before he could do anything about it.

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