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jfrbfbreudh • today at 5:59 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Even the name “Scion” reverses the syllables of “Bonsai” and drops the “B”! This might be a coincidence, or might not.

huh


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dpark • today at 8:28 PM

Reminds me of Glenn Beck’s tirades on TV in front of a blackboard where he’d stitch together new tinfoil conspiracies in real time.

duhhhhh1212 • today at 6:07 PM

“The meanings overlap too. In horticulture a scion is the cutting grafted onto a rootstock, and grafting is a standard bonsai technique, used for example to add branches to pines and junipers. So two gardening words line up in sound and in subject.”- Claude

Lol