Contributed by:
Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com
Article Contributed on: 6/23/2006 12:50:41 PM
Well, it took a while, but YourHub.com finally has a small collection of stories about bodily functions. Actually, just about poop, which I guess is probably the term I'm allowed to use for it. I couldn't find an entry for it in the
Rocky Mountain News Stylebook, which is for the most part the rules of what we can and can't do here. If you find this kind of thing disgusting and not funny, you might as well stop reading now.
Here's a Web site that promises good, clean humor instead.
I did learn a new word for it when I started reading this poem, "
Manure," by
Sean Reif, a chiropractor from Thornton, this morning when I got to work. I grew up in
rural Iowa, so I never thought manure worthy of poetry before this.
My friend
Dan used to ask me if I could "smell the money" when I stopped out at his parents' farm, where they had several dairy cows. By "the money," Dan was referring to the smell of manure, which wasn't exactly money, but the cows who made it made his family a lot of money. I didn't ever ask him to "show me the money" a la
Jerry Maguire. As a side note, however, and I've probably written this before, I did save my infant cousin's life in the early 80s when my rear end took the brunt of a hardened chunk of "the money" that was flying straight for his stroller during a cow chip throwing contest.
We've also got our own self-proclaimed "boogers and poop" expert,
Stephanie Blake, who blogs about the joys of motherhood from Parker. Her most recent entry on her "beat" solved one big mystery for many Jedi enthusiasts: "
Even Darth Vader Poops In the Toilet."
For a time, a woman named
Helen Loeb, from Lakewood, shared with us her memories of growing up on a farm on the plains of Eastern Colorado, complete with the joys of using
chamber pots and
outhouses, even when a bull is threatening to charge the old outdoor toilet.
And, the very first crappy entry we ever had was one about, well, "
dirty laundry," I guess, again by Dr. Reif. It's informative, to say the least.
We welcome these stories, in our own, kind-of clean family fun way. If you think you can deliver one, click
hereand start writing.
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