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Life in West Virginia is younger than the mountains but older than the trees
by FergusArgyll 3y ago
Life in West Virginia is younger than the mountains but older than the trees
- ggsp 3y agoIsn’t life everywhere older than the trees?
- hfgjbcgjbvg 3y agoI believe it’s a reference to a John Denver song.
- ggsp 3y agoOh, ha, thanks for pointing that out :)
- Semiapies 3y agoIf you take it as "life on land", it's accurate on both counts. Those are some old mountains.
- jameshart 3y agohttps://twitter.com/bookishseawitch/status/1572751278366949376 https://twitter.com/bookishseawitch/status/15727512783669493... “the appalachian mountains are older than saturn’s rings. the appalachian mountains are older than dinosaurs. the appalachian mountains are older than trees. the appalachian mountains are literally older than BONES. the appalachian mountains should be regarded with pure terror.”
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- rpmisms 3y agoHere's a yule-flavored reminder that Denver's talking about Western Virginia, since that's where the Blue Ridge mountains are. He'd also never been here, so he might have just been wrong.
- selimthegrim 3y agoThis is probably why West Virginia is never going to let go of Harper’s Ferry now
- Geisterde 3y agoOh I dont know the history, but I think I could throw a baseball from the 7 and hit west virginia, and if you are on the country roads trying to get around the traffic headed up bluemount you could probably find yourself in west virginia pretty easy.
- aebtebeten 3y agoSpeaking of never been there, I'm always amused by what you get when Dutch attempt to interpret the Denver lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVz_IJoyO6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVz_IJoyO6Y (or for that matter the German notion of western: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrXWdLxtfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrXWdLxtfM )
- rpmisms 3y agoThe first one sent me into fits. The point is that we're old here, not the wild West. Hilariously, I live in one of the most German areas of Appalachia, so the people look more or less like my neighbors. The second one would fit in at the CMAs.