Comments on: Spinster aunt laughed out of town

By: Finisterre

Finisterre — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:34:54 +0000

I don’t know whether to be excited or afraid at the thought that aerosol cheese might someday appear in Blighty.

By: TwissB

TwissB — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:50:18 +0000

Darn, I should have known that you, Jill the intrepid, would have sniffed out a Phallus impudicus long before I dug up this rare truffle of a blog.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:18 +0000

"p.s. I can’t wait to hear what Jill will have to say on discovering her first Phallus impudicus, alias Stinkhorn, at El Rancho Deluxe." The deed is already done, TwissB.

By: TwissB

TwissB — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:09 +0000

Next time, pack a little mirror with you to insert under the cryptic fungus to show diagnostic underside features like gills or pore surface, stem and ring, if any, color, and whatever else turns up. You can even take sneaky underside photographs with your amazingly sharp cameraphone. What brand is that remarkable instrument, by the way? Fungus-watching has one obvious advantage over bird-watching – fungi may mutate, but they do stay put while doing it. They also have one advantage over plants – you can handle any without fear of skin pooisoning. Sniff them, chew a tiny fragment to tell if it is peppery or not and spit it out immediately, but DON’T EAT ANY OF THEM. For exquisite design and color variations in a wide assortment of sizes and host locations, fungi are plain fascinating.

p.s. I can’t wait to hear what Jill will have to say on discovering her first Phallus impudicus, alias Stinkhorn, at El Rancho Deluxe.

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:13 +0000

Antoinette: cool them heels! Take them soopa-doopa drugs! We needs you. I needs you. I am glad things seem to be going well, and consider it a great sign that you are cranky and restless. Hee, in other words, NORMALish. BTW, Jill, this whole post is a fraud. You cannot be laughed out of town. You don't live in town. El Rancho cannot be El Towno Rancho without havoc being wrought in my mycological lobelet. Once again, I have contributed effulgently to the discourse. Yay me!

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:43:06 +0000

I am sincerely grateful for *any* heartwarming nature crap because I am cooling my heels in the hospital nursing a sizeable blood clot in my right lung. Since the soopa-doopa drugs are working, I feel ever so much better and am rather resentful at being confined. But the docs tell me this is some serious shit, so cool my heels I must, and be content to drag my carcass up & down the hall too many times to count.

By: Slade

Slade — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37:08 +0000

Jeopardy Answer: ‘Aerosol Cheese.’ Question: ‘What best describes the American Experience?’

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:09:58 +0000

Geez, it’s not as if it were something obvious like a first-fall Thayer’s x Iceland gull hybrid.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:41:50 +0000

I predict this mushroom is going to rise up and devour the entire Southwest.

By: dillene

dillene — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:18:22 +0000

Uhhh, how fast is that thing growing?