A mushroom walks into a bar
The bartender states “we don’t server your kind in here”
“But I’m a Fun Guy” responds the mushroom.
This was actually an opening joke at a work presentation. Trust me, the rest of the material was better. Each presenter led with a bar joke – when you’re in a multi-hour strategy session anything to lighten the time is welcome. Besides, it provided the perfect lead into my latest blog entry.
We are in overtime this month but this set fit the “something different” theme. When it comes to fungi (I hope you got that joke earlier) I am a total neophyte. To put it in perspective, I had no idea what a morel was until we were invited to a hunt by our new neighbors about 6 years ago when we moved into the new house. Apparently if you live in the woods you are expected to be a morel hunter. After someone finally explained to us what one looks like we headed out into the woods with zero guidance on where one might find these supposedly good eats. Eventually Linda and I found one. We took it back to the gathering area and low and behold we won the “biggest morel” contest. Note, I can definitely tell you these rather cute orange mushrooms are NOT morels.
Oh, I do know one other thing about mushrooms. Do not eat a mushroom unless you absolutely know what it is. This should go without mention – it’s a fungus – why in the hell would you want to put that in your body .. IT’S A FUNGUS. From what little research I did, this must not be as obvious as one would think because 95% of the websites visited during that research explicitly stated that warning somewhere on the site – translated – someone has been sued.
Hit the jump to read a little more about these fungi and others.
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