[Originally posted here.]
The Blood-Tooth Mushroom
“The young fruitbody is spongy and characteristically exudes droplets of red fluid. Later the fruitbody becomes tougher and teeth develop on the underside.”
That appears to be a good description of some members of congress, especially the part about developing teeth on the underside. Ugh. I wouldn’t lick it.
BUT if I did I’d prolly run for Senator… and win. My soul would be gone forever, and I’d be sitting on dentures in my old age and talking out my posterior, just like most Senators. Gives me the willies, but it also serves as an appetizer for the Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: bloody, mushrooms, Open thread, teeth
What a revolting fungal growth!
But enough about POTUS and his sycophantic followers.
Weird mushroom, eh?
that reinforces my steadfast belief that fungi are not food.
blech! i hate mushrooms all the more now!
@ Kirly:
There’s quite a variety of species in the fungus family. Some of them are indeed harmful or dangerous; others are delicious and are a good source of dietary minerals.
Looks like a delicious strawberry sherbet with jellybeans. Yum!
Why does the original article describe the taste, if the fungus is inedible?
@ Bagua:
I was about to heave until I read your comment and took a second look.
Hmmmm. Not so bad, when you look at it that way!
1389AD wrote:
Botanists hire suicidal unterrorists — guys who want the 72 virgins without killing other people — to taste these things.
I’m busy watching the Vikings lose their game because Favre has a sore
wristor shoulder or something.Bagua wrote:
Yea, to bad it is inedible due to their extremely bitter taste…
doriangrey wrote:
So it’s the taste that makes it inedible vs. toxicity?
Kirly wrote:
But they’ve got zero calories, and are flavor carriers!
On the other hand, there are species that can kill you within an hour. Unless you have a microscope and the knowledge to identify the spores, never eat wild mushrooms.
We had a small crop of morels a couple of years ago, haven’t seen ‘em since. They go for $5+ a pound, but I didn’t trust them either.
@ AZfederalist:
Although the fruit bodies of H. peckii have been described as resembling “Danish pastry topped with strawberry jam”,[8] and Hydnellum species in general are not known to be poisonous,[33] they are inedible due to their extremely bitter taste.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum_peckii
AZfederalist wrote:
Thats what the article on them at Wiki says.
That’s it. Foster must be banned from evacuating in the forest.
Calo wrote:
<—- Throws brink at Calo….
Kirly wrote:
Shell fish are also a thing I’ve only eaten a few times in over 50 years.
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@ 1389AD:
Not palatable = inedible.
@ doriangrey:
I type faster than you talk!
Brink back at ya!
How was the party yesterday?
isn’t it too early for the BOT to appear?
@ AZfederalist:
Bit of a peppery taste, not for everyone. But it has a significant medicinal effect, a natural heparin.
@ song_and_dance_man:
BOT must be tired tonight and is ready to go to bed.
Calo wrote:
It was quite enjoyable and the little monsters even enjoyed themselves…
@ Bagua:
Well, don’t fall down and hit your head after you eat too many then.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
What? Lobster shrimp and crab offend you? I love me some Lobster
Shrimp and Crab all sharing a plate with a nice juice steak….
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Should I send him on his way? I think someone tweeted this post.
BTW, slime molds are cool, too. Here’s Dog Vomit Fungus… but it’s not a true fungus. It lies.
Calo wrote:
The Vikings aren’t playing well at all – as a team. But, at least, they’ve come within 2 and made a game of it.
doriangrey wrote:
And here I thought my old tied died clothes were made with RIT.
@ doriangrey:
Well worth the labor and effort. Good job DG!
well here is something to get excited about
bloody democrats
(take with a grain of salt)
Republican trend grows
By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann
The mainstream media is peddling the line that the Democrats are staging a comeback, slicing Republican leads. It is absolute nonsense. A close review of polling in every close House race in the nation indicates that Republicans now lead in 53 seats currently held by Democrats and are within five points in 20 more
On the Senate level, Republicans now lead in all ten states that are necessary for GOP control of the Senate, the smallest margin coming in Nevada where the Rasmussen Poll has the Republican, Sharron Angle, four points ahead.
If I’m reading between the lines right he’s kinda-sorta predicting 72/11,he’s calling that his lowball, conservative, not-crazy-sounding prediction, but maybe it’s not his real prediction, either, wink-wink).
doriangrey wrote:
I know…it’s weird, but shell fish, to me, are just big bugs in water. I have eaten crab once, lobster more than three times and shrimp a bunch of times. Calamari once, only because I didn’t know what I was eating. Oysters or other shell animals. No.
For water food, fish is more appealing, and I would pick it over shell fish on any given day, anytime, anywhere.
Mmmmmmmm, hairy clams.
Too bad Georgie Boy finally figured out that throwing money at the Dems is just a large money pit. BWA-HA-HA-HA!
Soros: I Can’t Stop a Republican ‘Avalanche’
@ song_and_dance_man:
That’s what the divers call lobsters, bugs. Yummy.
Here are their deep sea cousins caught by the BP spill cam. It is amazing how they manage to swim.
-BaguaChannel
@ song_and_dance_man:
HoJo’s deep fried clams were great. Deep fried oysters are, too. Actually even deep fried cardboard is great if you avoid the paper.
Bunk X wrote:
Twitter, DIGG, Facebook and MySpace are sites I never looked into nor ever wanted to. I’m satisfied with a good ol’ fashioned blog; as if ol’ fashioned could be applied to something barely 10+ years old.
Here’s a great high resolution look at one, bugs is about right. Lot of meat on this beauty.
@ song_and_dance_man:
I’ll second that.
/lurking
@ Bunk X:
Kidd Valley’s Fried ‘Shrooms are to die for. Almost makes me want to go to the Seattle area for a mess of them things.
Nah!
@ doriangrey:
Carnivore ☃
Good evening all. Hope everyone is doing well tonight.
Those mushrooms look amazing. God sure does create some awesome things.
Medvedev: Schwarzenegger next Mayor of Moscow!
@ Bagua:
@ Bagua:
Nifty!
Also mighty creepy…
but I’d still love it with a little drawn butter!
When you stop to think about it, the midterm election is really an idiot test.
Thomas Sowell’s
Feingold Versus Johnson
now this is cool
Camera mounted on fastest birds on earth
@ Bagua:
Giant Isopods! YAY!
Relatives of “lawn shrimp” and pillbugs.
@ Bagua:
It’s a deep sea cockroach. It may be meaty, beaty, big and bouncy.. oh wait, Foster checks his pantry for a box of REX and hastily pulls out his big iron skillet.
@ Bagua:
I worked at a restaurant called Pappadeaux’s for a couple of years. They serve cajun seafood. The biggest lobster I ever sold was to a jockey. He was all of about 5’0″ and maybe 110 pounds. He ordered a 12 pound lobster. He almost finished the entire thing along with his sides that came with it. It was pretty funny.
@ Bunk X:
As long as there ain’t no porch manques.
Calo wrote:
ROTFLMAO… And damn proud of it too…
@ linoleumknife:
You’re very welcome.
wolfie wrote:
And garlic with a few slices of lemon…
linoleumknife wrote:
All is well on the Western Front.
The diversity of life is something the god deniers will never reconcile to their satisfaction or insert with conviction into their view of how life began.
rain of lead wrote:
I love that bird that flies through the forest – what a feat!
@ rain of lead:
Wow! That forest flight is incredible!
Bunk X wrote:
I tweeted it.
Once again, it is not a “bot” in the sense of “spambot” – it’s a trackback indicator. It simply tells you when somebody linked back to the post, whether from Twitter or elsewhere.
And Brett Favre and the Vikings are flaccid tonight.
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F wrote:
So much for supporter of freedom, eh? Statist through and through.
/too bad, he had so much potential
@ Calo:
@ wolfie:
yep,
it’s a little different when you get the
‘birds eye view”
AZfederalist wrote:
Yup, I guess apples really don’t fall all that far from the tree’s…
@ Bunk X:
eh, thank you.
You do find some really cool stuff to get the gears turning.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Yeah, I don’t really listen to them anymore. I don’t mind if someone doesn’t believe, that’s their choice. I have a couple of friends that are strong atheist. One is an angry and smug bastard about, and the other just goes about her business. The angry one I have had lots of conversations with. He always gets so mad and ends up shouting at me. I just sit there and smile, comfortable in my faith. It drives him insane, lol.
Those mushrooms prolly give you the ability to smell colors and converse with the departed shortly there after.
@ linoleumknife:
Sorry Bunk, that was supposed to be a *Heh.
@ gulfloafer:
There was a really cool X-Files episode about a bunch of people in a home for Alzheimer patients eating mushrooms. They wound up conversing with the dead and it was having bad effects on the population of the home. Of course Moulder believed in the power of the mushrooms and Scully was skeptical. Good t.v., lol.
@ rain of lead:
Awesome. As impressive as human works can be, they can’t rival what the Creator has provided His creatures.
@ Calo:
Hey Calo!
(waves)
@ linoleumknife:
Food for thought:
Changing the Meme
Let me know what you think!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
If Sowell advised me to sit on a street corner and bark like a dog I’d do it. He’s brilliant.
@ AZfederalist:
yep, you’d almost think He had a plan
@ linoleumknife:
Hi LK, how’s the nightshift?
@ rain of lead:
Well that stinks. My office doesn’t like to keep up with all of the flashplayer updates and things like that. So I will have to email the link to my home account and watch it later.
@ linoleumknife:
yeah, I agree, Their loss and all that. However you did hit on a distinct trait of the Left. When confronted with truth they find refuge in anger, name calling and shouting.
F wrote:
Can’t say that.
@ Bunk X:
What I like about Sowell is that you don’t have to be an egghead to understand what he’s trying to tell you. He knows how to keep it smart and simple.
wolfie wrote:
A bit of lemon juice would definitely add a bit of zest, and the garlic is a good suggestion.
I went though bags of frozen baked stuff clams during the disaster, all those hours of watching deep-sea crabs, eels and isopods gave me a craving for shellfish and melted butter.
@ linoleumknife:
the part with the gosshawk flying between the trees two feet off the ground is mind blowing
@ Calo:
Peaceful for the most part. It makes living with my mom a bit easier. We get along pretty well, but she needs her space at times. How’s things on your end? The hip getting any better?
@ song_and_dance_man:
Actually I’m thinking of working up a guest post on that very topic. I just lost a friend of over 12 years because she is convinced that since I don’t hate the Tea Party I’m a dangerous lunatic who will go on a killing rampage. According to her, the fact that I don’t like having a ruling class makes me a “bitter, possibly violent extremist.” It’s sad really.
rain of lead wrote:
Wow! Thanks for that.
@ rain of lead:
Well first thing when I get home this morning I will check it out.
Apparently I killed the thread. Maybe if I try and hit it like the Fonz would…..
rain of lead wrote:
Yeah, like you’ve never done that. Remember Bong Day 1979?
@ 1389AD:
There is much to digest there.
We do have a link to the EDL here on the sidebar and one of their leaders visited us in the past to take questions. As it goes in any tough room there were many challenging comments, as there should be.
It appears the EDL is the American equivalent of the Tea Party, maligned by the MSM here, as the EDL is there.
The Left leaning media here, as there, are looking for demons in the choir bench. But as mentioned in the post in the link, that pic was used to manufacture a poster child, and is not representative of the whole movement.
linoleumknife wrote:
Anyone with me to take this one out back?
*looks for the whip*
Well, no mushrooms with my Thanksgiving dinner, although I did see some shaggy manes growing around here. They are pretty tasty when fresh.
I had bacon and eggs, with a fresh garden tomato, and my dessert is apple pie with cheddar cheese melted on top.
@ song_and_dance_man:
LOL, well good luck. I don’t like being hit. Was it something I said?
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Sir, that is blasphemy in the highest order. Why would you put cheese on an apple pie?
@ linoleumknife:
Same reason Texans seem to deep fry anything including beer?
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@ linoleumknife:
Just joshing. Killing a thread is an art, and if you need any pointers on how to do it successfully, be on the ready with a sharpened No 2.
The first tip jar post from a blog which will remain mostly nameless:
So, do you think he’s figured it out yet?
@ linoleumknife:
Sounds odd, but it’s good, just like sweet relish in a peanut butter sandwich.
Opilio wrote:
Ask Cato. XD
@ Calo:
LOL, fair enough. I have been thinking about what it might be like to have melted cheddar on some apple pie. I guess I would try it. Hell I have tried some crazy foods in my life, so why stop with that. Speaking of fried awesomeness, did you hear about the progs and their witch hunt for Paula Dean? Apparently she will be the death of America!!11ty!!
@ song_and_dance_man:
Haha, it’s all good. I was playing around too.
@ Bunk X:
Pork chops dipped in apple sauce is pretty good too.
@ Bunk X:
Sorry about that. I was practicing my codefu.
@ Opilio:
OK – that is just SAD.
Do not make me feel sorry for him, nope, it will not work.
I have eaten some weird stuff. Most of the strangest things have been Asian. My grandpa did a ton of business over there when I was child and I was exposed to many different Eastern cultures at a young age. My favorite strange food though is frog legs. They are so good fried it is hard to describe.
@ Opilio:
The LGF economy is tragic.
Your .02 cents – Granted, but watch your ass. You’re .98 cents short.
Pop Ups – Give or be bemused.
Ads – You can have me all alone as opposed to them, sooo Give, or else.
Comments – Free for now, but watch your ass.
Pages – Rethink this thing as a fee based subscription feature.
Registration – Open 24/7 for now, but charging to post is.. well…
Email – yeah, I’ll read and post your email for 5 bucks.
Links – any link is OK for 10 bucks a month.
Oh and hit the tip jar month to month. After all I do have your IP addy.
@ mjazz:
Now that I can approve of. Good stuff.
Opilio wrote:
No. In order to figure out what you “stand for” you have to engage in a lot of constructive thought.
CJ’s mode is destructive, and always has been. IMO.
mjazz wrote:
Brown the chops in butter, take them off the skillet and toss the onions in. Brown the onions, return the pork chops to the skillet, salt and pepper them, cover them with the onions and let ‘em cook on low for an hour. Serve ‘em up with applesauce. Yum!
mjazz wrote:
That is so Brady Bunch.
/
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I was Jan. Fuckoff.
Bunk X wrote:
Eeeeeeeeeewwwww!
Not sweet relish!
DILL pickle and onion is the way to go w/ peanut butter.
Yummy!
@ Bunk X:
Didn’t Jan wear braces?
@ Bagua:
Sea roach. Yum!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
For $15 bucks I won’t claim I got a nasty e-mail from you.
Bunk X wrote:
heh. The middle chick is always angry.
@ Iron Fist:
What up I.F.? Good to see you in the ONT.
wolfie wrote:
$20 if he would post the emails from his phantom inbox.
Calo wrote:
Yep. Took me a long time to learn how to walk properly. How’s your lemur doing?
@ Iron Fist:
It’s awful early for you to be up with insomnia.
How are you tonight?
Hey I.F. here are a couple of quotes by Samuel Clemens I thought you might like…
“Mosques are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whiskey are scarce. The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral.”
- Mark Twain
“When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic — for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it.”
- Mark Twain
song_and_dance_man wrote:
He could make it a Halloween feature… (for a price, of course!)
The Phantom Inbox!
@ Bunk X:
6 more weeks – GAK!
Something about my bent screws in the femur rod and torque.
But, I am on the mend — ask me around Thanksgiving.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Stop judging.
Calo wrote:
At least you don’t have to endure maggots. We all wish you well, except for the ones who don’t show up for the OOTs anymore.
I’m out early tonight. Big day tomorrow. Gotta be up before noon. G’night, folks.
@ Bunk X:
Stop it
I am out
Some tunes for our insomniacs
@ Calo:
Goodnight Calo. Have a good day tomorrow.
@ Bunk X:
Adious Bunk. See ya.
2 threads in one day bashing Jimmy Carter, awesome. Thanks Speranza. Somewhere Ronald Reagan is smiling.
Have a productive Tuesday all.
That looks like something you would catch off of a chinese call-girl, and yet I am tempted to taste it. Go figure.
@ Beeduwine:
LOL, it does look kind of tasty. According to the wiki though, it is terribly bitter. How are you today Beeduwine?
Beeduwine wrote:
Can we get two rounds of pickled ginger to the table?
@ linoleumknife:
Tuesday is looking good so far! And you, sir?
@ Beeduwine:
Not too badly, just dealing with a crappy computer at work. Grrr…
@ Beeduwine:
I do think I will try and avoid making any statements like yesterdays though. Went too far with that one. It’s kind of scary how easy it can be to slip into the drug addled minds of the Loozards.
@ linoleumknife:
Heh. Do you work nights, or do you just start really early?
@ Beeduwine:
I work nights. It’s not very glamourous, but it is quiet and it pays the bills. I’m very happy to have a job right now.
/I’m sending this from my G-1 phone. Its not too bad. I think I will be ready for a better phone in a few months though. Didn’t upgrade for five years, and now that I did a year and a half ago I’ve got the tech fever. Lol
Well y’all have a good day. I’m out for now.
Good morning everyone. How about some turkey?
1389AD wrote:
The fungus among us!
@ Bumr50:
I wonder if it hallucinates by eating certain types of people.
@ PaladinPhil:
Looks like a nice gathering!
@ PaladinPhil:
Nice spread there!
@ Bumr50:
Dang I was hoping for shot from the air, lol. Thassa big ass mushroom!
@ m:
Some pix here.
And even better here.
@ Bumr50:
@ m:
A good spread, and a good crowd of people. What more can a person want. Getting cool out there in the mornings now.
Oh, and for those that haven’t noticed, I have been nominated for the category “Best Creative Activities Blog” for the Canadian Blog Awards. I still don’t know who did it or when.
@ Bumr50:
Thanks! WOW!
@ PaladinPhil:
That is kick ass! We need to keep that handy!
Well, it looks like our military is partially screwed up a bit. UAE orders Canada out of it’s base, airspace.
/time to start digging through other news headlines.
Apparently in The Netherlands telling the truth about islam is against the law.
Prosecutors: Dutch anti-Islam politician can’t defend himself by arguing his comments are true
@ citizen_q:
That is what I have been saying, even before this mess started. Took one look at those “anti-discrimination” laws and knew we were in trouble. Yeah, truth is no part of the equation. One thing is for certain though, I’m not naming my kid Birgit van Roessel.
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