Man Eats Huge Orange Mushrooms and Trips with Anita Bryant

Zen Yogi:  those are some gorgeous magic mushrooms, Silas

DO NOT EAT THEM, Yogi.  They're poisonous.


The picture shows the Jack o' Lantern mushroom, Omphalotus olearius, and here's why you must not eat it.

Unlike chanterelles, Omphalotus olearius and other Omphalotus species contains the toxin illudin S, and are poisonous to humans. While not lethal, consuming this mushroom leads to very severe cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea.

WIKI: Omphalotus olearius

Zen Yogi:  it still looks cool

Sure it does, Yogi, and so do TV blondes ... until they start talking.


Zen Yogi:  what does this have to do with Anita Bryant?

She was the Queen of Oranges and Florida Fag-Bashing.

Zen Yogi:  I never heard of her

That's because she was the Queen of Oranges and Florida Fag-Bashing, mate.  She got the Queen Mab treatment.

Zen Yogi:  what's that?

She was ignored and she's not dead even today but no-one has cared for many years what she may be doing.


The beauty part is it contains a protein called luceriferase which makes it luminescent in low-light conditions.

The jack-o'-lantern mushroom is orange. Its bioluminescence, a blue-green color, can be observed in fresh specimens in low light conditions once the eye becomes dark-adapted. The whole mushroom does not glow — only the gills do so. This is due to an enzyme called luciferase, acting upon a compound called luciferin, leading to the emission of light much as fireflies do when glowing.

- WIKI

However, some progressive mushroom hunters say that's rubbish and these mushrooms are never luminescent based on many observations.

Regarding other mushroom commentaries, they had this much to say.

The Jack O'Lantern is the focus of the largest and most insidious conspiracy in the mycological world. According to every field guide, and every other source of literature available for the species, its gills glow in the dark. I'm not making this up; pick up any mushroom book that describes the Jack O'Lantern, and you'll find the author coolly mentioning the "luminescence" of the gills, or telling stories about 19th-Century pioneers finding their way back to their cabins, in the dark, following the Jack O'Lantern's glowing gills.

All of these authors are lying, and they are in cahoots. See, what they enjoy is knowing that hundreds of amateur mushroomers, every fall, shut themselves into closets, bathrooms, and garages, eagerly peering through the darkness for hours, waiting for the Jack O'Lantern's gills to luminesce.

MushroomExpert.com:  Omphalotus illudens


Zen Yogi:  they have made a Great Orange Mushroom Conspiracy

Yes, isn't it marvelous.

Zen Yogi:  is this really a magic mushroom, Silas?

It's not magic as for trippin' with the Aztec priests but it's highly magical for creating conspiracies.  With some of these beauties, you can make sense of the names of pubs in England.  When you go to the Horse and Dog Pub in England, it isn't just being quaint; the Horse and the Dog were up to something.

Zen Yogi:  how could the Horse and Dog be up to something as I never met one I couldn't trust, well, except for pit bulls as they're a dodgy lot

When owners with dinky winkies train pit bulls to be vicious, the dog's normal behavior is broken and we can't trust him anymore.  The dog didn't do that, tho.  It was forced by the dinky winky who was too wankish to train it properly.

Even so, Yogi, the Horse and the Dog are up to something.  They must be since the Orange Mushroom said so.

Zen Yogi:  maybe they plan on Mister Toad's Wild Ride only this time it's not a car but Horse and Dog will be riding

Sounds improbable but I'm diggin' it, Yogi.