Deleted the following from the Real Life section because (a) the first example is incorrect and (b) someone disputed it by adding some Natter that violated Example Indentation instead of just removing it.
- Anyone who's been stung by a jellyfish knows how useful human urine can be.
- Subverted, actually. Contrary to popular belief, peeing on a jellyfish sting does not help it heal, even if it is sterile. In fact, the ammonia in urine can actually make it worse. The best thing to do is to flush the stung area with hot salt water (NOT seawater).
- Anyone who's been stung by a jellyfish knows how useful human urine can be.
Deleted the following from the Film section because it was Natter that violated Example Indentation:
- Truth in Television, some species of ants do farm aphids for the honeydew they excrete.
Removed this because it looks like a misinterpretation of kopi luwak, which is already in the Real World examples. Kopi luwak is made from coffee beans after they're digested and defacated by palm civets which are fed coffee fruit. It's the most expensive coffee in the world.
- There's a expensive form of coffee that's made from the poo of a rodent that eats coffee beans.
- Not exactly right. The coffee made comes from normal coffee beans, but the beans have been eaten by said rodent and have passed through digestion. They can't actually digest the beans, so the coffee gets its unique flavor from the chemical reaction during the digestive process. This of course means the beans have to be collected out of the rodent's poop once all is said and done. But the coffee is not made from the poop at all.
It's best not to mix up ficitonal examples with the Real Life materal. And we lack details: if replacing this on the main page please put it in the Discworld section as a double star subexample with some more details: how is it compared?
- Played with in Discworld, in which Terry Pratchett compared Ankh-Morpork to a pearl... in a none-too-flattering way.
I read that one. It wasn't a case of solid gold poo; it was a case of a con artist lying to his disciples. A couple of them wondered how the "master" could survive on what he ate, and from there wondered what his poo looked like. (Is this a boy thing or a genderless teenager/young adult thing?)
They decided to check his no-one-else-allowed mine-only stay-away poohouse. And found rice grains in his poo. (Which means the rice wasn't very well prepped or cooked.)
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett