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SpongeBob, the mushroom, discovered in Borneo (Squarepantsii)
SF Chronicle ^
| 6/20/2011
| David Perlman
Posted on 07/12/2011 7:45:33 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
You can find all the porcini you want in your supermarket, but don't go looking for the mushroom's distant cousin, Spongiforma squarepantsii, because the newly discovered species can only be found in the rain forest of Borneo - so far.
Dennis E. Desjardin, a world-roaming mycologist, has just identified, described and named the curious fungal blob that a team of colleagues brought to his laboratory at San Francisco State...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fungi; mushroom; spongebob
Fun stuff....
To: Recovering_Democrat
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07/12/2011 7:49:03 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Looks a bit like a deformed morel.
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:50:29 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Recovering_Democrat
No! No! Not in pasta sauce - that is the worst form of death... You get covered in tomato or cream sauce... Help Help
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:51:15 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:54:10 AM PDT
by
svcw
(democrats are liars, it's a given)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Let me know if you want off the fungus news ping list.
*So far this is it's first ping in 13 years.
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:55:13 AM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
To: Recovering_Democrat
....Spongiforma squarepantsii...
LOL!!!!
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away!!!!
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:56:23 AM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/12/2011 7:57:07 AM PDT
by
svcw
(democrats are liars, it's a given)
To: capt. norm
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posted on
07/12/2011 8:04:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: svcw
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posted on
07/12/2011 8:07:00 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Recovering_Democrat
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posted on
07/12/2011 8:59:25 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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