From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 16:23:43 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > Oh YES! Always have. I hate ft-lbs and
> > all that. Especially, ugh, slugs. (Whatever
> > they are.)
> >
>
> Oooh, oooh, a question I can finally answer.
> Slugs are these really nasty *slimey* little vermin
> (overgrown worms really -- but one can at least use
> worms to catch fish) from 2-5 inches long that like to
> hang out in the boxes that allow access to my sprinkler
> system. They made the resurrection of my sprinkler system
> this year (broken valve due to freezing damage a number
> of years ago -- a long story I won't bore you with)
> a distinctly unpleasant exercise.
>
> I got even with them though -- I left the covers to
> the boxes open drying out their normal habitat.
snip...>
> This odd little letter is just one reason why you should
> *always* be nice to people on the extropian list. Its
> not advisable to test how creative they can be (if they
> happen to have one of those hormonal takeover events
> that makes them annoyed with oneself).
When I lived in the Rainy City, I used to load table salt in a
backpack-type fertilizer sprinkler and go out mass murdering slugs in
my yard in the early morning hours. The grains would hit the slugs and
they would melt down like crowds of Wicked Witches doused in Evian, en
masse. I felt like a petty-Saddam, gassing his subjects and challenging
the world to give a damn. Its a good thing that slugs don't make any
noise or the PETA folk in my neighborhood would have ridden me out of
town on a rail. A light rail (oh, but they didn't get the funding for
that by the time I left either...).
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