Also, also, Dasha intentionally exposed herself to poison ivy to see if she's allergic......
Dadpad, is that the dead leftover of some kind of mushroom?
who, now you people have to stroll in with the weirdo mushrooms. I want to know if my guy is the honey mushroom.... aka matsutake mushroom. if so, i'm going back tomorrow and getting a trunk load of them.... well, that is if littlek cooperates.
i mean....what would SHE know about mushroom?
Dag ID mushrooms
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/major_groups.html.
Lilk the photo is the whole mushroom (properly called a fungus) It grows completely underground. I did have it identified but cant find the email now. (shrug).
I think Dasha found it..... it's very cool-looking.
littlek wrote:I think Dasha found it..... it's very cool-looking.
nope mine grows underground.
I used to knew a guy who could tell you. Mycologist type. Made an odd living teaching science to kids, consulting on fungus problems in home, and coming in and counseling the poor kids (and they're families) if they were on shrooms and got brought by some misguided but well-meaning soul to the emergency room.
He was a good person for all these jobs. But I've lost his email in the shuffle.
Anybody here know Mitch McGuinness?
McGuinness? nope. He's not a Slovak, I know that much.
Nope. Irish right down to his green bowling shoes.
But he knew his mushrooms, that was for sure.
Well Slovaks know their mushrooms, too... The Slovak ones. Not helpful that much here.
Not this Maginnis was it?
A BUSH CHRISTENING - A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
One Michael Magee had a shanty.
Now this Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad,
Plump, healthy, and stoutly conditioned;
He was strong as the best, but poor Mike had no rest
For the youngster had never been christened,
And his wife used to cry, "If the darlin' should die
Saint Peter would not recognise him."
But by luck he survived till a preacher arrived,
Who agreed straightaway to baptise him.
Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue,
With his ear to the keyhole was listenin',
And he muttered in fright while his features turned white,
"What the divil and all is this christenin'?"
He was none of your dolts, he had seen them brand colts,
And it seemed to his small understanding,
If the man in the frock made him one of the flock,
It must mean something very like branding.
So away with a rush he set off for the bush,
While the tears in his eyelids they glistened-
"'Tis outrageous," says he, "to brand youngsters like me,
I'll be dashed if I'll stop to be christened!"
Like a young native dog he ran into a log,
And his father with language uncivil,
Never heeding the "praste" cried aloud in his haste,
"Come out and be christened, you divil!"
But he lay there as snug as a bug in a rug,
And his parents in vain might reprove him,
Till his reverence spoke (he was fond of a joke)
"I've a notion," says he, "that'll move him."
"Poke a stick up the log, give the spalpeen a prog;
Poke him aisy-don't hurt him or maim him,
'Tis not long that he'll stand, I've the water at hand,
As he rushes out this end I'll name him.
"Here he comes, and for shame! ye've forgotten the name-
Is it Patsy or Michael or Dinnis?"
Here the youngster ran out, and the priest gave a shout-
"Take your chance, anyhow, wid 'Maginnis'!"
As the howling young cub ran away to the scrub
Where he knew that pursuit would be risky,
The priest, as he fled, flung a flask at his head
That was labelled "Maginnis's Whisky!"
And Maginnis Magee has been made a J.P.,
And the one thing he hates more than sin is
To be asked by the folk who have heard of the joke,
How he came to be christened "Maginnis"
patiodog wrote:
Anybody here know Mitch McGuinness?
Nope, I knew a Patrick and a Walter, though.
Mitch Mcginess is/was in Seattle.
Maybe true, maybe not. Did you know him?
Yeah.
Can you imagine the list of STDs that Google has? It must be worse than James Bond's.
Did he teach Environmental Science 204 at North Seattle Community College?
