When ‘Shrooms Attack
Mexico, home of the giant mushroom. A mushroom weighing more than 40 pounds was recently discovered in Southern Mexico. This thing is ginormous.
This mushroom, which weighs more than 40lb, was discovered in a forest in southern Mexico.
The specimen, macrocybe titans, is more than two feet tall. It was found near Tapachula in Chiapas state, according to the Southern Border University Centre.
Officials said they did not yet know what researchers planned to do with it.
In comparison, here is a picture of a "normal" specimen of macrocybe titans. Normal being a relative term. While the researchers are mum on what they have planned for the giant fungus, there are rumors that a hunt is on for Babe the blue ox.
Well, any creature raised in Paul Bunyan's camp tended to grow to massive proportions, and Babe was no exception. Folks that stared at him for five minutes could see him growing right before their eyes. He grew so big that 42 axe handles plus a plug of tobacco could fit between his eyes and it took a murder of crows a whole day to fly from one horn to the other. The laundryman used his horns to hang up all the camp laundry, which would dry lickety-split because of all the wind blowing around at that height.
All of which is completely true of course. After all, this is the internet. Incidentally, ginormous is now an officially official word.
DICTIONARY: Merriam-Webster adds one of our favorite words — ginormous — to its fall edition. Fun trivia: The word appeared in a British dictionary of military slang in 1948.
Humor, World news | Gaius Thursday, 12 July , 2007
By Adam_Y, Thursday, 12 July , 2007 @ 7:50 am
Yay for ginormous!
It’s all a bit Super Mario Brothers with those mushrooms.
By Chris, Thursday, 12 July , 2007 @ 7:51 am
It will make a lovely lamp.