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Interesting about "pilobolus" projecting its spores. I used to assist a mycologist, and it is a fascinating field, that was neglected for many years, until a famous athlete died mysteriously of a fungal disease. Here is a URL with action diagram of spores being projected. But I can't understand choosing it as name for a dance group. http://www.herb.lsa.umich.edu/Kidpage/pilobfct.htm
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>But I can't understand choosing it as name for a dance group.
weren't you paying attention, bill? they're highly unusual.
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of troy says well at least its not a hippoithyphallic!
bingley points out: I know your mother handled an ithyphallic swan, but I think you should expunge all thoughts of handling ithyphallic hippos from your mind
Dear helen, you previous discussions of hippi had concerned the tuti-clad hippi in the movie Fantasia. That is, you formerly ad-dressed hippi who were explicitly female, but you now contemplate hippi who are -- ahem -- most "explicitly" male.
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Thank you, but i will leave the care and handling of ithyphallic hippos to Russian empresses
rumor has it Catherine the great's taste ran to handling ithyphallic hippo's (horses, that is.)
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Dear tsuwm: Since pilobolus (spear thrower?) seems to mean in the case of the fungus expelling the products of conception as a projectile, I wonder how that would be choreographed.
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>Since pilobolus seems to mean expelling the products of conception as a projectile, I wonder how that would be choreographed.
okay, bill, here's another way of approaching this: since the pilobolus has a pod, or cluster, or glob of spores which is ejected from the 'mother' plant, perphaps this could be looked at as a group which, although the individuals have strayed far from their roots, hangs together in the attempt to renew their art.
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Helen of Troy, whose mother loved a swan, cites Catherine the Great's taste for horses You can Leda horse to Catherine, but you can't make him ... well, perhaps you can!  
but surely there is no Trojan Horse 
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