From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   On 26/06/17 03:50, Contrarian wrote:   
   > In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99  wrote:   
   >> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in December, which gave   
   >> 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita phalloides _, which took fourteen people out   
   >> (one died).   
   >>   
   >   
   >  so what's with the omelets?   
   >   
   >  they put the mushrooms in the omelets?   
   >   
   >   
   >  ISTR PKD named two entities*  in one novel (I can't quite   
   >  recall which)  Amalita and Borel.  Changed one letter in   
   >  each mushroom name.   
   >   
   >  He had to turn them out quickly.   
      
   (Flonk.flonk.flonk removed)   
      
   My favourite mushroom, Amanita. But rubescens, not phalloides...   
      
   --   
   Rusty Hinge   
   To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)