Gulp Quotes (5 quotes)

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“I've heard about people gulping out loud, but this time it's me. I don’t have enough information to know if this grandfather is dangerous, but suffice to say, I’m on guard—giga-guard.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

tags: benzehabe, dangerous, guard, gulp, zonked

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“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.”
― Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

tags: absorb, blood, colon, extrapolate, flatulence, gas, gulp, hydrogen, mary-roach

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“Of the known fungi species, of which there are tens of thousands, only about 3% are known to be poisonous. Within that, there are varying degrees of likely harm. Some will upset your tummy; others will liquify your liver.”
― Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide

tags: aotearoa, foraging, gulp, mushrooms

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“this building's being bombed!”
― Douglas Adams, 6 Titles : Hitchiker's Guide, Restaurant, Life, the Universe, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Dick Gently's Holistic & Long Dark Tea-Time

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