So how, dear friends, do you explain this to people who are not inhabitants of this village? I was faced with this problem yesterday at work. On duty as the flight medic in the back seat of a helicopter, it was my job to watch for obstacles during landing. As we neared landing in the meadow which was the scene of our emergency, there appeared an airborne cowpie spinning in the rotor wash. It looked like Dorothy's house in the Wizard of Oz. The flight characteristics of this Friesian frisbie allowed it to remain airborne for 15 or 20 seconds as the pilot shut down. Now, normally flying fecal matter doesn't crack me up. O.K., a little grin maybe, some tenth grade humor, but nothing debilitating. Yesterday I flashed on recent postings concerning turd hockey and shooting the shit (literally) and had a hell of a time maintaining a professional demeanor as I gathered my gear to go to work. When someone asks what's so funny, how do you explain that you can't wait to tell the folks back at the N. Young outpatient clinic about the really cool airborne meadow muffin you saw at work today? Does the ethnic/cultural angle work ? "Is possum festival in old country this time of year. Brothers Greezank and Fliknor all province champion chip flingers. We laugh, drink, and sing chip flinging songs. I always laughing when pies fly." Or the detatched ethnomusicologist "Ektewelie, this reminds me of a most risible treatise on references to bovine excreta in the midsummer agricultural festivals of the....." Or the all American approach "Damn Sam, I wuz laffin' my ass off. You see that stuff? I gotta call my buddies 'Paw and Cletus, cuz they love a good shit sling and I know they ain't never seen anything like this." What to do? Dave.