Toadstools
Aug. 31st, 2014 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hIf Google has only one hit for a phrase, it's called a "Google whack". Is there a term for a phrase that has no Google hits, even though there should be some?
I'm not sure exactly what sparked the idea; probably a combination of trying to identify the mushrooms that are growing in our back yard, and reading a letter from a gay dad to a gay man's remarkably intolerant parents, and then my brain did its usual bouncing around. But... no hits at all for "Amanita Bryant"?
I expect that there will be, if-and-when Google indexes this post. Anyway.
(As it happens, though A. phalloides is responsible for about half of all fatal human mushroom poisonings, and the various Amanita species collectively about 95% (per the always-reliable W'pedia), a number of the Amanitas are not only edible but commonly eaten. Not to be confused with the unpalatable and toxic Anitas.)
I'm not sure exactly what sparked the idea; probably a combination of trying to identify the mushrooms that are growing in our back yard, and reading a letter from a gay dad to a gay man's remarkably intolerant parents, and then my brain did its usual bouncing around. But... no hits at all for "Amanita Bryant"?
I expect that there will be, if-and-when Google indexes this post. Anyway.
(As it happens, though A. phalloides is responsible for about half of all fatal human mushroom poisonings, and the various Amanita species collectively about 95% (per the always-reliable W'pedia), a number of the Amanitas are not only edible but commonly eaten. Not to be confused with the unpalatable and toxic Anitas.)
