Thistles have no rights in my yard. I understand that they're sort of like a national flower in Scotland, so if any of you Scots are offended, you are welcome to come over here and dig them out and take them home with you. Someone earlier made a reference to weeds as "the daughters of God", well, thistles are the ungrateful daughers that rebelled for no reason, other than that they could, and are hanging out with punkrockers and Goths, getting drunk and pregnant while they're still young, selling and doing meth and crack, and beating up their siblings. That isn't permitted here, and even though the flower isn't bad looking, they have to go.

I like dandelions, though. They can stay.