Top 5 Synonyms for "Cloaca"

5. The Everything Chute

4. Omnorifice

3. Eventful vent

2. Sphincter of love

1. Hoo-ha


(okay now you think of some)

More Urban Oysters

Late Fall Oysters are the urban mushroom of the moment. A quick google search shows at least three different scientific names in current use for this species (or complex of species). It's grayish, fleshy and gilled, growing directly off of dead wood, in the fall after the first frost. Here it is in its natural habitat, a dog pee-soaked stump in the sidewalk at a cab stand by the trolley station at Brookline Village.

Muddy River 11/26/09, 9:15 a.m.

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