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"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." Guy Browning (The Guardian column, www.guardian.co.uk 18 October 2003)

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Off on a tangent.

Huge day (and evening) at work.
Brain a bit zonked to talk about it this instance.

Here's a joke from my best friend from when I was about 10 years old:

"what do you call a mushroom that goes to parties?"

"A fun guy"
*snorts*

This was prompted by reading this:
"Native Truffles - Fun Guys
Next time you go for a walk in the bush, don't be surprised if you suddenly catch a whiff of bubblegum or peanut butter. It might be the left-overs from a picnic, but more likely, there's a native truffle lurking nearby. As winter approaches, these fungi form fat and fruiting bodies just below the soil surface, where they wait to be dug up and devoured by native animals."


Which comes from here.

And which lead me on to the wonderfully named Fungimap.
(check out the picture of the cage fungus, 'Ileodictyon gracile'!)

Marvellous stuff.

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