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14. More facts about "manure" - mushrooms are grown under a bed of horse manure, and.....

Tue Mar 16, 2021, 08:27 PM

Mar 2021

...for a long time mushroom farmers went to racetracks to haul away horse manure for free. After a while tracks started charging them to take it away.

Bill Veeck, a funny sports entrepreneur, was general manager at Suffolk Downs for a couple of years, and wrote a book about his experience those years. The title? "Twenty Tons A Day", which was how much manure was generated every day at that track.

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Manure... An interesting fact. [View all] mezame Mar 2021 OP

Funny, but it's folk etymology. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #1

Well, crap... Hugin Mar 2021 #2

Similar to the word "fuck" Wednesdays Mar 2021 #4

Very doubtful. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #6

That's a great site to have in your back pocket Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #9

Check out the German fikken dhol82 Mar 2021 #11

Could be Old Norse to Norwegian dialect "fukka." Ocelot II Mar 2021 #16

Let's face it, those are all related to proto-Germanic. dhol82 Mar 2021 #17

As does the act it describes. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #18

It was, and is, popular. dhol82 Mar 2021 #19

I would wager it goes back to proto Indo European DBoon Mar 2021 #21

Is there a comparable word for fuck in Greek? dhol82 Mar 2021 #22

Yea, not true TimeToGo Mar 2021 #12

Thomas Crapper gets most of the credit for inventing the modern-day flush toilet in abqtommy Mar 2021 #3

What about the poop deck? underpants Mar 2021 #5

Scheiss im Himmel! jeffreyi Mar 2021 #7

Shiiiiiiiiiiiit Yavin4 Mar 2021 #8

file that story under shit, comma bull paulkienitz Mar 2021 #10

There's a series on Netflix about this.... NurseJackie Mar 2021 #13

More facts about "manure" - mushrooms are grown under a bed of horse manure, and..... George II Mar 2021 #14

Another source dlk Mar 2021 #15

You just reminded me of my mother in law Bluesaph Mar 2021 #20