Kliban by B. Kliban for June 05, 2023

You would be amazed at how valuable that stuff used to be. https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/694700303/the-history-of-american-imperialism-from-bloody-conquest-to-bird-poop

“Well, where in the Sam Hill’s it all coming from?”

Don’t they recycle?

Anybody else flash on ‘Brewster McCloud” ?

Reminds me of a joke that an acquaintance of mine (a man with an 8th grade education and an abundance of native intelligence) laid on another acquaintance (an analytically minded man with a Ph. D):

“Well, Rob, you know what that white stuff on chicken #### is?”

Here followed a detailed analysis of the components of bird waste products and how a bird’s kidneys can concentrate urine and thereby reduce the amount of water they need, etc., etc, — until interrupted by the questioner:

“No, Rob. That stuff’s chicken ####, too.”

Sounds nicer if you say ‘guano’. “Why, that island must have a layer of guano on it, three feet thick!”

And yet you can’t say s**t in the comments….

No $hit?

Home is where the heart is, but in this case…

Guano Act of 1856 anyone?

LOL!

Well, we’re birds, so.. yeah.

I always thought the Morro Bay Rock was really quite small but augmented with a massive heaping of guano.

How come we can’t use that word in the comment section, nannybot?

Go on? No!