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A class of primary children started a class project to make a plant pot
to take home. The teacher wanted to have a plant in it that was easy to
take care of, so it was decided to use cactus plants. The children were
given greenware pottery in the style of a clown plant pot. They painted them with glaze and had them professionally fired at a class outing so they could see the process.


It was great fun. They planted the cactus seeds in the finished
planters and they grew nicely. Unfortunately, however, they were not allowed to take them home. The cactus plants were removed, replaced with a small ivy, and the children were then allowed to take them home.

The teacher said cactus seemed like a good idea at the time...
Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

cactus.jpg

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Origins: This amusing photo had been circulated on the Internet for years prior to someone's May 2001 invention of the backstory quoted above. No, there wasn't any such class of cherubic apple-cheeked youngsters headed up by a naive teacher --- that part was all some jokester's flight of fancy. A closer examination of the photo shows these botanical offerings aren't in a classroom but what looks like a warehouse. It's a stock photo, in other words; the planters are shipped with cactus as shown, and the effect is deliberate.

Moreover, cactus planters of similar design have been vended on the Internet and off for many a moon. You're likely to encounter them at swap meets and flea markets where the humor of some offerings is a bit coarse.

Barbara "sometimes Nature just has to take its coarse" Mikkelson

http://www.snopes2.com/photos/planter.htm

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