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by apomekhanes 1008 days ago
This shouldn't have been downvoted, even if only for the phrase "phosphorescent feces" ... on its own merits.

Fun phrases forfend fatigue phenomenally.

Edit: wow, I'm realizing that "phosphorescent feces" is at more like "Eminem" levels of phoneme repetition / assonance / etc. My much more basic largely merely alliterative response pales in comparison.

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Shiny shit?
Chrome coprolite

“A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite

Oh wow, thanks for mentioning this! It makes me appreciate Terry Pratchett even more. I didn't know what the word meant but remembered it was used by the Discworld trolls in some capacity. Turns out it is used as an insult [0].

[0] https://wiki.lspace.org/Coprolite

Pratchett is fun to read. Thinking of another was it might be said:

Rocky rectal remains