Mushroom Adventurer Mugs

Erratum: The caption for Fig.35 shoudl read SHAGGY MIDNIGHT DEATHCAP not CHICKEN-OF-THE-WOODS.

MUSHROOM MASACRE.

"I read somewhere that truffles are a gateway fungus."

An experimentalist alarms his guests by describing the appearance of the mushrooms in a dish they have just eaten.

'Waiter, there's a Fly-Agaric in my soup.'

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

'I've no time for these foragers - they come into the area and snap up all the best houses...'

'Ah, now's there's something different....'

"Never mind the porridge, someone's stolen my woodland mushroom collection."

'Do I have to give thanks for all the spinach, or just the bite I'm going to eat?'

"We've discovered two new organisms growing from school gym lockers."

'This species of fungi was last spotted in Oxford by Alice Liddell in 1862!'

"No, I'm not a hare, I just happen to have big ears..."

Gene Manipulation

"You might call it shoplifting officer, but I prefer to think of it as foraging."

'Is this the new product?' - 'Yes, a rocket filled with cornflakes.'

He's been teaching a class on fungi for decades! He loves molding young minds! Campus.

'Are these mushrooms edible?'

Fresh off the boat and dazed by the tropical sun, Bert falls prey to the sales-rep devouring Giant Mushroom of Indonesia.

"I just realized what our problem is - we're fungible."

"Ooops...well, at least you now can see that there are a lot of fresh mushrooms in our soup!"

'That's right, the Princess kissed me by mistake: She didn't know the difference between a frog and a toad...'

The mushroom pickers

Black Truffles!

Mushrooms of New York

Goblin.

'Let's face it, we're not meant to wear hats...'

'Mom, Dad - this is Jeremy.'

Magic mushroom

"I recommend the mushrooms."

'I'd always been told they found the truffles by smell.'

Magic Mushrooms

Animals and their natural seats.

'Of course I'll need to run some tests; but offhand I'd say it's some sort of fungus infection.'

William Pitt the Younger as a 'Toadstool upon a Dunghill'