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wild mulberry

On-Yomi: シャ

Koohii stories:

1) [Neobeo] 19-1-2009(30): The mulberry (#698 桑) may be nice and let you dance around it, but if it were a wild mulberry tree it would try to protectiself by throwing rocks at you.

2) [cameron_en] 20-11-2008(14): If you smoke the leaves of the wild mulberry tree, you'll get stoned fo sho coz that tree is wild, brother.

3) [Megaqwerty] 20-6-2007(5): The wild mulberry bush is easily differentiated from its domesticated cousin the mulberry (#698 桑) by its hardness, such as stone, such that not even the hardest of members is able to dance around this lonely tree, er, bush.

4) [Katsuo] 10-6-2007(2): The Rolling Stones are dancing round a tree. We can hear them singing, “Here we go round the wild mulberry bush, wild mulberry bush, wild mulberry bush; Here we go round the wild mulberry bush on a . . . etc".

5) [Meconium] 15-2-2010(1): The family of mulberry plants are all very musical. The mulberry (#698 桑) bush is interested in singing nursery rhymes ("This is the way we wash our crotch, wash our crotch, wash our crotch…") but her elder brother the wild mulberry is a tree that prefers to live a wild lifestyle, so his preferred musical genre is rock!

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