#34072
07/05/2001 9:26 PM
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"how did a toilet come to be known as a crapola? I understand the 'crap' part but the 'ola' is a mystery to me."
Victrola, Motorola,payola,Crayola all coinages using a meaningless suffix for completion.
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#34073
07/06/2001 9:29 AM
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Shrooner: a person that spends inordinate amounts of time in the woods each year trying to find the elusive morel mushroom. Also has more luck finding spoor, wildflowers, wild leeks and reaffirmation of ties to wood nymphs.
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#34074
07/06/2001 12:24 PM
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enthusiast
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Just to get a moment's respite from excrements....
ConsueloI have not tasted morel mushrooms. I dream of tasting it someday. I am interested to know what beautiful words you will use to describe its taste and if you can contrast it with Portobellos and the ubiquitous white mushrooms from Pennsylvania caves.
(I hope I don't get stoned with the hardest dung there is, for going off-thread)
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#34075
07/06/2001 12:55 PM
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The first thing for anyone planning to eat any kind of mushrooms found in the wild to do is get a good book to learn to identify them, and eat only ones they can be sure they have properly identified. Even experts have been poisoned by errors in identification of mushrooms. The puffballs etc. are so far as I know easier to identify. I prefer to buy mine. It is safer.
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#34076
07/06/2001 1:21 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Shrooner: a person that spends inordinate amounts of time in the woods each year trying to find the elusive morel mushroom. Also has more luck finding spoor, wildflowers, wild leeks and reaffirmation of ties to wood nymphs.
[irony]And yet, I had a big batch of morels spring up in my front flower bed. And I hate mushrooms.[/irony]
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#34077
07/06/2001 1:43 PM
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nice old ladies who don't know what the word means tell stray dogs or cats to "scat."
OED suggests ss + cat suggesting a sibilant hiss (are there any other kinds?) followed by a shouted "cat".
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#34078
07/06/2001 2:01 PM
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OED suffers from fecal impaction.
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#34079
07/06/2001 2:22 PM
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[irony]And yet, I had a big batch of morels spring up in my front flower bed. And I hate mushrooms.[/irony]
Sparteye, where do you live? The way they talk about morels, it might be worth a plane ticket to where you live to get those morels!
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#34080
07/06/2001 2:35 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Just a county away from consuelo, wordcrazy. In the wilds of mid-Michigan. [still-looking-for-the-missing-UP-on-CK's-map emoticon]
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#34081
07/06/2001 2:49 PM
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[still-looking-for-the-missing-UP-on-CK's-map emoticon]
I was wondering about that myself and thought perhaps it had seceded as part of the ND name change flaff that degenerated into the joining of North Dakota and South Dakota after ND's rejection of my Baja Manitoba proposal and the division of Michigan and Upper Michigan to keep the number of stars on the flag the same. [scratching-my-head-because-even-*I-don't-understand-what-I-just-said emoticon]
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#34082
07/06/2001 3:02 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I have only just discovered this thread - the posting that I have made in "Holy Buckets may have been more apposite here! But the "crap" part of "crappola" is generally thought to derive from a Mr Henry Crapper, who did not invent the water closet, but did produce the first reasonably practical one that was capable of being produced in quantity and fitted into existing houses without undue problems. (Actually, that's not entirely true - the early W/Cs had all sorts of sanitary problems until a certain amount of expertise in fitting them and connecting them to the sewerage had been acquired - but that's another story - - -) 
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#34083
07/06/2001 4:19 PM
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Last year a friend, who regularly wanders around in the bush, gave us a bunch of morels because they picked so many they didn't know what to do with them. They figured they'd picked about $600 worth of mushrooms, but since they do it all the time, it was no big deal to them...they just didn't want to waste them! Apparently in Newfoundland, wild mushrooms of all sorts are plentiful. I haven't gotten around to finding someone to take me out mushroom-hunting. Blueberries grow like a carpet on all the hills here...yum yum!
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#34084
07/06/2001 10:09 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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<<and reaffirmation of ties to wood nymphs>>
Are you sure it's *morels you're gathering?
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#34085
07/07/2001 4:46 AM
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How 'bout the "presidentials" of a Bush? 
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#34086
08/03/2001 3:09 AM
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A new word (well, new to me anyway)I came across yesterday was homocoprophagous, used of a species whose members eat each other's droppings. Does heterocoprophagous exist for animals which eat another species' droppings?
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#34087
08/03/2001 3:59 AM
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I don't know about hetero-, but auto-coprophagous warrants an entry in OED2. http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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#34088
08/03/2001 4:56 AM
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#34089
08/03/2001 12:37 PM
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or Birds nest soup-- made from the gelatious fish flavored lining of a sea tern nest the bird digests, and then regurgated fish, and lines its nest with the geliten for the fledglings..
the nests are harvested, and the lining made into a soup.. pretty gross when you think about it.. but it taste good.
but a lot of food is that way-- discusting to think about, glorious to eat -- Figs have that aspect too-- any botonist here to explain how figs flowers get fertilized and mature into figs? Yummy!
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#34090
08/03/2001 1:08 PM
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Why add "coprophagous" when "scatophagous" already exists?
P.S. "h" crucified again. Thanks, Faldage.
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#34091
08/03/2001 1:24 PM
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cophrophagous
AHA! That's where that h went. You put that back in dipthong this minute, Dr. Bill! Shame on you for stealing it!
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#34092
08/03/2001 1:36 PM
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Phaldage, don't be mean to Pooh - no one'll notice the dipherence
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#34093
08/03/2001 1:37 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Can the previous few posts be applied to "h" droppings as well?
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#34094
08/03/2001 4:44 PM
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H's droppings at least do not ring like a bell. More like sound of frog returning to its liquid environment.
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#34095
08/27/2001 10:42 PM
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I was talking to my father this weekend about the "Deer John". He says it isn't deer that do it, dear, it's porcupine! Oh, well, it was a good story while it lasted.
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#34096
08/27/2001 10:55 PM
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I'm glad I resurrected this post. What with my daughter's wedding and my computer going belly up, I hadn't had a chance to get back till now. How do morels taste, I'm asked. They taste like Pan romped through the forest with the nymphs and wrapped them all up in autumn leaves. I wish I had some now. They are a wild thing, not to be compared to portobello or white ones from the grocer.
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#34097
08/28/2001 4:04 PM
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I have in my possession a copy of a letter to the editor of the Rocky Mountain News that I wrote some time back. There had been a near-disastrous forest fire near Mesa Verde, in SW Colorado, and there was some concern that the fire had destroyed a certain pre-historic site. After the ashes cooled investigators found that what was burning at the site was a very large pile of rodent droppings. I asked in my letter if it was too late to protect the site under the Endangered Feces Act.
TEd
After that I'll just scat on out of here.
TEd
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#34098
08/28/2001 4:12 PM
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>Also has more luck finding spoor, wildflowers, wild leeks
Which is what the deer are doing at that tree!
TEd
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#34099
08/28/2001 4:16 PM
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>Apparently in Newfoundland, wild mushrooms of all sorts are plentiful.
Sheesh, in my youth, we used to seek wild morels ALL the time. Oh, wait, never mind....
TEd
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#34100
08/29/2001 12:08 AM
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the Endangered Feces Act.
After that I'll just scat on out of here.
G-R-O-A-N!!!!! Ted, c'mere a minute, I've got something for you...
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#34101
08/29/2001 1:03 AM
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They taste like Pan romped through the forest with the nymphs and wrapped them all up in autumn leaves.A fellow mushroom-lover salutes you for that wonderful imagery, consuelo!
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#34102
08/30/2001 1:45 AM
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Thank you, Whit. May I call you Whit? I can't take all the credit. I've been infected by poetry AND Tom Robbins.
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