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

That reminds me of something brown that sounds like a bell.

On the subjects of infants learning languages - our little grandson has just started. He has mastered - increasingly recognisably - several words in German, and in English he speaks more in phrases. Before you say : "Well, words are longer in German anyway" I will embellish that with the explanation that most of the words are of two syllables and the phrases are usually three syllables - "Auto", or "Gurke" or even "Google", (well, he does live in Silicon Valley) but "put that there" and "There it is" in English.

I like thinking about that more than thinking about baby whale poo.

...there'tis...

Yes, paulh, I was trying to nidge the drift in a less unsavoury direction, fascinating as it was.

.... perhaps I was also trying to nudge....

Nidge means shake or quiver.

So, were you drinking a milkshake or taking arrows form your quiver?

I was quiveringly nudging. Anyway I've dragged us out of the muck.

Where there's much there's brass...

<BB<

I'm sure that was muck ado about nothing.

Nothing can come of nothing. Speak again.

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How do you grow mushrooms?

Keep them in the dark, and feed them .

One of my coworkers once worked for a valve company (there are plenty of these in the Houston area, of course). One of her company's clients was a mushroom farm (portobellos and button mainly). One day they gave her a tour of their facilities and showed her their valves in use controlling the flow of the sludge they grew the mushrooms in. She also learned what the main components were.

She no longer eats mushrooms.

Should be horse shite. Was she put off by that?

She didn't go into full detail, but I believe there were a lot of "by-products" from pig farms and processing plants.

That's why I buy mushrooms in a store, and never think about how the mushrooms were grown.

I just wash them before cooking. Whatever

Isn't that how most crops are fertilised? What's the difference?

How do you make holy water?

Put it in a saucepan and boil the hell out of it.

Yeah, it didn't slow down my appetite for 'shrooms. I love 'em.

I sometimes consider getting one of those log kits for shitake mushrooms.


Speaking of which, here's the tale of the Tree Brain.

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_brainwatch_timeline.php

Why was that link marked as "already seen" on my screen? I swear I have never seen it before.