h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Specially trained Dogfish Sharks were used during the War by allied troops to retrieve suspected German u boats

(but as clever as they were, even they still couldn't pewk underwater)

If a tiger shark swallows a dogfish, can the dogfish vomit in the tiger shark's stomach?

RF

I understand that there's a Filipino dish made grom cabbage that has been vomited from a dog's stomach.

I wonder how it gets in there...I mean, dogs don't normally eat cabbage.

(Can we lay off the vomit discussion now? )

Honey is made from bee vomit.

Ok Ok Ok...

No vomit...


Kope Luwak is a very expensive type of gourmet coffee made in Indonesia. It is brewed from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of a palm civet.

So we're on to s**t now?

Sorry... I had to do it.



Ok... here's one that has no bodily functions involved...


Another delicacy from South East Asia is the Durian... a fruit that has a very tasty custardlike flesh... Unfortunately when its husk is opened it smells like putrified flesh.

Many hotels and other public areas ban the fruit altogether.

Durians: A330805

I recently heard it described as 'Like custard flavoured with onion - but in a good way!'

Products recently glimpsed (and some purchased!) in my local Chinese Cash n' Carry: Green tea flavour marshmallows with red bean jam filling; vegetarian fried lobster snack; dried jellyfish; Easter Bunny prune juice candies; dried salt-pickled plums flavoured with licorice; frozen pigs' uteri.

For more 'interesting' foodstuffs worldwide: http://www.weird-food.com/weird-food-bugs.html

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I had some of those, from a student once... definitely an acquired taste!

Can't remember if we mentioned this when discussing polydactyly (above) - but Ann Boleyn had six fingers.

Another acquired taste...'Salty Herrings' - Swedish licorice sweeties, covered in salt and flavoures with...ammonium hydrochloride. The taste is akin to eating a Pontefract cake while someone p---es into your mouth! (I'd imagine)

There can't be many bodily functions left to discuss this week.

OOooh... let's see if I can name all the "bodily functions" (the eliminatory ones (is that a word?))


Respiration
Perspiration
Expectoration
Micturation
Urination
Defication
Regurgitation
Eructation
Flatulation
Ejaculation


Have I missed any? (we can be such disgusting creatures, can't we?)

Repetition
Micturation Urination

excavation

defaecation!

P.S. One of my favourite phrases (used when teaching) is that it's like 'micturating into a stiff breeze'.

That describes my job to a tee

Can I borrow it for awhile please.

PS Any idea where I saw a place for registering ones favourite word - was it on hootoo, because this is one of my favourites, along with 'masticate'