as you fly into washington, ignoring the no fly zone,
and dip down to 200 foot, being chased by the USAF,
who will not fire any heat seeking missile for fear of damaging the important buildings, you will get a good view of the cherry trees which line the mall.


They were a gift from the emperor of Japan to JFK to say something in a way which was a bit more meaningful and visible than bonsai.

For most tourists, they're associated with George Washington. Old Uncle George. "Georgie" (as he's known in the trade)

"Georgie couldn't tell a lie".

And this was best exemplified by the story about the cherry tree he as a young hooligan cut down in his father's garden, because he thought it might be genetically modified.

His father ("even older georgie") brought his errant son before him and spake thus:-

"My Cherry tree is fucked, little georgie. Verily tell thy papa, did thoust taketh a sharpened implement and with it hew said arboreal entity?"

to which Georgie replied:-

"I can not tell a lie it was I who cut down that cherry tree"

Old Georgie then spake thus - "For it hath verily come to pass, that though thy hast done a most wrongful deed, and merit the most awful of smoting and wicked punishment for your transgression, I'll go easy on you, coz you told the truth. I now want you to join the militia, and train for a while, set up a few tax evading companies in territorial expansion west of the Ohio river, make yourself some friends, perhaps get a slave pregnant, and wage bloody war on the brits".

Georgie smiled to himself, for he knew that he had aspergher's syndrome, and though he knew every prime number up to 5007 he couldn't tell a lie or decent joke.