Thumb Wrestlers Pillows

"We found three sort-of Earthlike planets around a nearby star." "Do you think any of them have video games?" "I've been trying to work out the odds of an intelligent species arising and evolving thumbs capable of holding an X-box controller." "Proof of video games would change everything." "I wonder what the aliens on those planets consider sexy." "Living beings creating simulated beings they can smash is the hallmark of an intelligent species."

'Increasing resistance.'

The Endless Battle of the Organic Gardener

'I used to do that, but it just grows again.'

"Let's get ready to bumble!"

"Bob! Your manure's here!"

"I find it best to stay out of office politics!"

-A garden uses a lot of water. -Most of it perspiration.

'Don't you think it's time you tackled the wandering dew?'

Next Wave Collegiate Sports

'He's made an eco-friendly bamboo bike... unfortunately all the tomato plants have fallen down.'

Showing gardening tools to a tower block.

'See I told you the garden was big enough for a table and chairs.'

"What are you growing?"

"We've resolved the fundamental problems. Now we're down to personal issues."

"There he goes flaunting his opposable thumb again."

Old man fighting against time with an arm wrestle.

This plant is a lousy malingerer!

"Oh god, here she comes again, insisting she's helping."

"What about your precious opposable thumbs now?"

'Those showy blooms are very susceptible to pests.'

'Your texting addiction sticks out like a sore thumb.'

"It's weeder's elbow."

"Miss Daniels! Get in here! The sansevieria trifasciata is budding!!"

Andy Johnson, Hardcore Composter

"911?... Guinness Book of World Records?... 911?

Gardener's Calendar: Look out for damage by hail.

The Fireside Jungle: Beware of introducing pest into the house with new specimens.

More than two million years have passed between the evolution of the opposable thumb and the invention of the wheel.

'Type the following as fast as you can!'

2012 warmest year on record so far.

"I now declare a thumb war."

Roots coming through the roof of a balcony.

'Well, that's the gardening done - until the perishing things spring up again!'

'Try not to sit still for too long dear, the convulvulus is really rather virulent.'