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Why is fecal matter brown?
ArghDangIt
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11-1-2006 6:42 PM
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fecal matter
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poo
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poop
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feces
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dung
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excrement
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crud
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brown
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science
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11-1-2006
6:51 PM
giraffe42
now we just need to figure out why it tastes the way it does
11-1-2006
6:59 PM
egoldstein
um, did you mean smell? i'm hoping/assuming you meant smell.
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