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Welcome to FraudFrond.com!
This website pays homage to the fake trees that disguise our cell phone
towers. Have you seen these things??! Every time I see a Bogus Botanical or a
Counterfeit Conifer, I can't help giggling at the absurdity of it all. These
Sham Shrubs have been manufactured so that you and I can communicate with each
other, while protecting our delicate aesthetic sensibilities.
How many can you find?
Send us a pic of your favorite tower, and we'll send you a wooden nickel!
(Get the pun? I love puns you have to point out.)
(Ps: The above is a lie: we won't actually send you a wooden nickel. They're
probably really expensive.)
(But we would be excited to see pics of towers. We'll post them on
* FraudFrond Spotter's page.)
And please send us any RARE finds. (Fake weeping willow?)
We'd love to hear about any International Spottings! What's going on in
Asia? Europe? Africa? Have these things taken over the whole globe?
Points are as follows:
Adjust the winning score to your area. In most regions of the country,
you'll want to play to 30 points for every half hour of play. In some areas, you
can easily get up to 50 in a half hour.
And in some areas, there aren't many towers -- the game may suck. Consider
playing Connect Four, or adding this rule:
1 point for every car with a driver talking on their cel phone.
There's something poetic, here -- trees as signal towers -- harkening back to
the days of smoke signals and pigeon carriers. But these trees are man-made,
which is kinda spooky. How strange is it to see these Frankensteins among
real nature? On the other hand, they look like something you'd find in a
train-set or behind Barbie's house -- something about them is childlike and. . .
well, clean and comforting.
What do you think? *Contact us fraudfrond@yahoo.com
Links:
images:
simple:
Long story short, the basic idea is that you can make something with a bunch
of little copies of itself. They use a leaf as an example: within the leaf
you can find smaller patterns that look like the general structure of the entire
leaf.
These Bogus Botanicals are an amazing illustration of that. They make these
things out of standardized parts -- and they look pretty real: the fact that
they blend-in sorta proves the fractal theory.
Other cool links:
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