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Elphaba · 11-27-2005, 03:01 PM

In a typically deep, philosophical conversation with a friend, he emailed me this:

"Slugs are without a doubt one of the big mistakes of Intelligent Design, or
whatever. It seems that the original amount called for in the recipe was
given an extra zero, and in consequence we wound up with all these homeless
snails.

Tough on slugs, tough on the causes of slugs, say I. And it *is* good fun to
dump a bit of salt on the buggers and watch 'em squirm.

Have you tried the beer solution? If not, place a large saucer half full of
beer in your garden. Slugs, like Canadians, go crazy for it. The next morning
you will find a saucerful of slugs and, if you're really unlucky, some of them
will still be drunkenly singing 'O Canada'."

My question is "who taught the slugs the words to 'O Canada'?"

Crack · 11-27-2005, 04:20 PM

Damn Canadians

cyrnel · 11-27-2005, 04:27 PM

I've referred to Budweiser as slug-bait since a friend taught me the saucer trick. It has served well. Fortunately I've slept through the singing portion.

There are few things as effective for luring slugs & snails as beer. Except my vegetable garden. Fuckers.

Elphaba · 11-27-2005, 04:32 PM

Alcoholic fuckers, with absolutely NO rhythm.

uncle phil · 11-27-2005, 05:31 PM

mom is 83 years old, and she's been feeding those slugs Bud forever...

Elphaba · 11-27-2005, 06:09 PM

Which proves that Bud is not really a beer, I think.

Tophat665 · 11-28-2005, 08:09 PM

Feeind the Slugs Bud? Flyman must've taught them to sing Oh Canada. I'm getting this hysterical visual of a drunken slug rearing back up in a saucer of beer and warbling "we stand on guard, we stand on guaaaard forrrr theeeeeeeeeeeeee" Even funnier if he has a mounty hat and coat on.

RCMP - Royal Canadian Mollusk Patrol.

Elphaba · 11-28-2005, 09:34 PM

Flyman has been accused of many things, and rightfully so. But THIS? Ya better have some proof, buster.

paddyjoe · 11-29-2005, 04:35 AM

I'll dig up some proof somewhere.......

Fly · 11-29-2005, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paddyjoe

I'll dig up some proof somewhere.......

awww go sit down you bastard.........no need to bring up the slug incident.

paddyjoe · 11-29-2005, 04:57 AM

Well, I'm getting close. Here's one from flyman's family reunion:

Charlatan · 11-29-2005, 05:29 AM

I really hope you don't have a frontal shot... I really don't want to know why they are called the "slugs".

As to the question in the OP... Did you also know that you can used this beer trick to catch Earwigs? Those are nasty looking buggers. Sadly they don't sing when they get into the beer. Rather, they thrash about madly injuring all in their way, often bumping into the cheery slugs, ruining their evening of frivolity.

Sad. Sad indeed.

Here are some slugs that managed to avoid those nasty earwigs... if you listen closely you can hear, Marvin Gaye's Let's Get it On playing in the background.

Elphaba · 11-29-2005, 11:05 AM

Why wasn't there an NSFW on that picture? That's just disgusting. The nekkid butts were cute though.

uncle phil · 12-21-2005, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paddyjoe

Well, I'm getting close. Here's one from flyman's family reunion:

is he the one with the santy clause hat on?

Elphaba · 12-21-2005, 05:49 PM

No, he is the one with the really hairy butt. Erm...or so I have been told.

uncle phil · 12-26-2005, 01:55 PM

i know where fly is...out celebrating st. stephen's day, spreading the wealth...

Slippery Slope · 12-26-2005, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by cyrnel

...There are few things as effective for luring slugs & snails as beer. Except my vegetable garden. Fuckers.

I've found fewer slugs and snails munching away my plants since I took the advice of the following tip... 'As slugs are obviously attracted to slug-pellets, throw tons of them over your neighbour's fence.'

Fly · 12-26-2005, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elphaba

No, he is the one with the really hairy butt. Erm...or so I have been told.

it's all about the ass baby.....................

Elphaba · 12-26-2005, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flyman

it's all about the ass baby.....................

so my husband says.....

feelgood · 12-26-2005, 11:04 PM

Wait wait wait....

I thought life's most important question is this:

Do you have zig zags?

uncle phil · 12-28-2005, 05:55 PM

so, no boxers were about on the 26th?

Fremen · 12-28-2005, 08:34 PM

So, are snails slugs? And, if so, what the hell's up with France?

Elphaba · 12-28-2005, 08:46 PM

Sheesh....Slugs are homeless snails. Haven't you seen them with their little cardboard signs? Damn Texican.

Fremen · 12-28-2005, 08:52 PM

Ahhh, that's what they were doing. I thought they were on strike.

I don't read Sluggish.

11-27-2005, 03:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Life's important questions In a typically deep, philosophical conversation with a friend, he emailed me this: "Slugs are without a doubt one of the big mistakes of Intelligent Design, or whatever. It seems that the original amount called for in the recipe was given an extra zero, and in consequence we wound up with all these homeless snails. Tough on slugs, tough on the causes of slugs, say I. And it is good fun to dump a bit of salt on the buggers and watch 'em squirm. Have you tried the beer solution? If not, place a large saucer half full of beer in your garden. Slugs, like Canadians, go crazy for it. The next morning you will find a saucerful of slugs and, if you're really unlucky, some of them will still be drunkenly singing 'O Canada'." My question is "who taught the slugs the words to 'O Canada'?"

11-27-2005, 04:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Crack Misanthropic Location: Ohio! yay!	Damn Canadians __________________ Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex. ~Halx

11-27-2005, 04:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	I've referred to Budweiser as slug-bait since a friend taught me the saucer trick. It has served well. Fortunately I've slept through the singing portion. There are few things as effective for luring slugs & snails as beer. Except my vegetable garden. Fuckers. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

11-27-2005, 05:31 PM	#5 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	mom is 83 years old, and she's been feeding those slugs Bud forever... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-28-2005, 08:09 PM	#7 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Feeind the Slugs Bud? Flyman must've taught them to sing Oh Canada. I'm getting this hysterical visual of a drunken slug rearing back up in a saucer of beer and warbling "we stand on guard, we stand on guaaaard forrrr theeeeeeeeeeeeee" Even funnier if he has a mounty hat and coat on. RCMP - Royal Canadian Mollusk Patrol. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

11-27-2005, 04:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Alcoholic fuckers, with absolutely NO rhythm.

11-27-2005, 06:09 PM	#6 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Which proves that Bud is not really a beer, I think.

11-28-2005, 09:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Flyman has been accused of many things, and rightfully so. But THIS? Ya better have some proof, buster.

11-29-2005, 04:35 AM	#9 (permalink)
paddyjoe through charlatans phone Location: Northcoast	I'll dig up some proof somewhere.......

11-29-2005, 04:57 AM	#11 (permalink)
paddyjoe through charlatans phone Location: Northcoast	Well, I'm getting close. Here's one from flyman's family reunion:

11-29-2005, 05:29 AM	#12 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	I really hope you don't have a frontal shot... I really don't want to know why they are called the "slugs". As to the question in the OP... Did you also know that you can used this beer trick to catch Earwigs? Those are nasty looking buggers. Sadly they don't sing when they get into the beer. Rather, they thrash about madly injuring all in their way, often bumping into the cheery slugs, ruining their evening of frivolity. Sad. Sad indeed. Here are some slugs that managed to avoid those nasty earwigs... if you listen closely you can hear, Marvin Gaye's Let's Get it On playing in the background. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

11-29-2005, 11:05 AM	#13 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Why wasn't there an NSFW on that picture? That's just disgusting. The nekkid butts were cute though.

12-21-2005, 05:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	No, he is the one with the really hairy butt. Erm...or so I have been told.

12-26-2005, 01:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i know where fly is...out celebrating st. stephen's day, spreading the wealth... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

12-26-2005, 11:04 PM	#20 (permalink)
feelgood Free Mars! Location: I dunno, there's white people around me saying "eh" all the time	Wait wait wait.... I thought life's most important question is this: Do you have zig zags? __________________ Looking out the window, that's an act of war. Staring at my shoes, that's an act of war. Committing an act of war? Oh you better believe that's an act of war

12-28-2005, 08:34 PM	#22 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	So, are snails slugs? And, if so, what the hell's up with France? __________________ Google

12-28-2005, 05:55 PM	#21 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	so, no boxers were about on the 26th? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

12-28-2005, 08:46 PM	#23 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Sheesh....Slugs are homeless snails. Haven't you seen them with their little cardboard signs? Damn Texican.

12-28-2005, 08:52 PM	#24 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	Ahhh, that's what they were doing. I thought they were on strike. I don't read Sluggish. __________________ Google