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Koohii stories:

1) [aircawn] 28-1-2007(310): If your firewood is too new and still has flowers on it, it's unsuitable for burning. You need drier wood.

2) [jamestaverner] 23-2-2008(29): Still giving flowers to that special woman in your life? That's so last year. Everyone knows now with the price of fuel that / "Firewood is the new flowers" / Go on, get some firewood today and make her Valentine's Day dreams come true.

3) [cjon256] 1-7-2006(22): Sometimes, new firewood still has flowers on it.

4) [torida] 26-5-2010(10): If you can see flowers growing where your log pile should be, its time to go chop some new firewood.

5) [fuaburisu] 10-10-2005(10): Axe-man brings a new bunch of flowers for his wife each time he goes gathering firewood. Each time he tries to find new flowers, different from the previous ones. He actually spends more time looking for new flowers, than he does gathering the firewood !

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