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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2009 : 23:26:43 [Permalink]
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| Sounds like a great way to slip in the shower...and hurt your back...oh, gods! I see it now! The chiropractors are behind this evil scheme! |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 06/13/2009 : 23:35:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
I think this is one of those case where the solution is worse than the original problem. |
That was my wife's response to the idea of setting some geckos loose in our cockroach-infested condo many years ago. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 02:49:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by H. Humbert
I think this is one of those case where the solution is worse than the original problem. |
That was my wife's response to the idea of setting some geckos loose in our cockroach-infested condo many years ago.
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During my stay in the Philippines several decades ago, I discovered that geckos are not only tolerated, but appreciated in homes ranging from the nipa huts of the poor to finely built homes of the wealthy. I personally found the neat little wall-crawlers kind of cute and much preferable to mosquitoes and cockroaches. However, the yuck factor of slugs and their slime trails puts me off. I once had one appear in my shower, and didn't appreciate (nor, frankly, even consider) its cleaning abilities.
We all have to factor in whatever makes us say, "yuck!"
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 10:05:17 [Permalink]
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Yeah; geckos are welcome in many houses in the tropic and considered like pets and even small protectors of the house.
They do hit and kill many potentially dangerous insects after all, not least of all, the disease transmitting mosquitoes. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 21:43:49 [Permalink]
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9:40 - No Sluggo.
10:30 - No Sluggo. Moistened fence, just in case.
11:30 - No Sluggo. Feeling like my kid has stayed out way past curfew.
12:30 - Sluggo! Moistened fence again, since it had already gone back to being bone dry.
Thankfully, none of my neighbors have yet asked me what I'm doing late at night with the hose. You fine people understand, "I'm watering my fence for my slug." I don't think they would. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 06/15/2009 : 01:40:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
9:40 - No Sluggo.
10:30 - No Sluggo. Moistened fence, just in case.
11:30 - No Sluggo. Feeling like my kid has stayed out way past curfew.
12:30 - Sluggo! Moistened fence again, since it had already gone back to being bone dry.
Thankfully, none of my neighbors have yet asked me what I'm doing late at night with the hose. You fine people understand, "I'm watering my fence for my slug." I don't think they would.
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Running late, eh? Sounds like he was being a slug-a-bed that didn't want to get going until his mother scolded him out of the sack. Of course, y'all have a fairly short acquaintance and you might be just now finding out what a lazy little sluggard he really is.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 07:23:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Running late, eh? Sounds like he was being a slug-a-bed that didn't want to get going until his mother scolded him out of the sack. Of course, y'all have a fairly short acquaintance and you might be just now finding out what a lazy little sluggard he really is. |
Well, I probably don't need to tell you that he was moving at a snail's pace. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 08:19:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by filthy
Running late, eh? Sounds like he was being a slug-a-bed that didn't want to get going until his mother scolded him out of the sack. Of course, y'all have a fairly short acquaintance and you might be just now finding out what a lazy little sluggard he really is. |
Well, I probably don't need to tell you that he was moving at a snail's pace.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 20:41:11 [Permalink]
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At about 10 tonight, I spotted Sluggo just as it was starting its climb onto the downspout next to the fence. I think I've got a good idea of where it spends its days (underneath a plastic splash block, next to some nice, cool, exposed foundation concrete).
By 11:15, I expected to see Sluggo on the fence-top, as usual. When I didn't, I grabbed a flashlight and started looking around. I finally found it six inches above the fence-top, behind the downspout (in the half-inch of space between the downspout and the vinyl siding on my house). I did see the scar, so it's definitely my Sluggo.
So... Sluggo's branching out on its own, exploring the wide world around it. [sniff] I'm so proud! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 22:54:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
So... Sluggo's branching out on its own, exploring the wide world around it. [sniff] I'm so proud! |
Then they leave, and they never write or call.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2009 : 02:08:39 [Permalink]
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Let us pray that he doesn't start hanging out in low bistros and running with the fancy ladies found in such places. That can be hard on a sinple, innocent country boy like Sluggo.
Ah, but the first time I saw Paris...... 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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and Crypto-Communist!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2009 : 09:58:44 [Permalink]
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Speaking of slugs.
While traipsing (on a wooden path made for guests) through one of the temperate rainforests on Vancouver Island, I was treated with the site of the second largest (in size) species of slug in the world, and the largest in North America. The banana slug. And really, it was huge as slugs go. I lingered for a long while, having never seen anything like it, and even took some pictures of it with my old and not digital Nikon. (Digital SLR's didn't exist yet.) So I grabbed this picture from google images. I prefer mine, because you can really see the setting, but oh well.
There is plenty of life in the Pacific temperate rain forests, by the way. And they have at least four times the biomass of tropical rainforests, according to the wiki link above.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2009 : 13:01:11 [Permalink]
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Ah, the banana slug! Plenty of them in the nearby redwood forests around these parts. The students of the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to make it their school mascot a decade or so ago. Go Banana Slugs!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 19:21:52 [Permalink]
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An update:June 16th: No Sluggo.
June 17th: Sluggo!
June 18th: No Sluggo.
June 19th: No Sluggo.
June 20th: No Sluggo.
June 21st: Sluggo!
June 22th: No Sluggo... yet. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 03:08:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
An update:June 16th: No Sluggo.
June 17th: Sluggo!
June 18th: No Sluggo.
June 19th: No Sluggo.
June 20th: No Sluggo.
June 21st: Sluggo!
June 22th: No Sluggo... yet.
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I was just about to ask.... You don't suppose he's taken to hanging out in Deep Elem, do you? So sad that our best and brightest so often fall into the warm & lovely, fragrant fleshpots of Gomorrah. God, but we all loves them fleshpots!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Is there a slugologist in the house?
