From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 18:07:53 MDT
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
>Subject: RE: Energy in WTC Tower Collapes
>- --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> >
>
<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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You know, I never thought I'd find out that I had something in common with
Mike (other than >Humanism) until now. I have to confess to having
"answered the call up" and undertaken "Slug Patrol" as we call it. This
basically consists of my wife acting as spotter so that I can swoop in,
armed with my plastic bottle of Saxa, pulling back our dense garden foliage
and dispensing grainy death from above on the offending critters. Maybe I
was an F4 pilot in a previous life. It certainly does give a hit of
satisfaction watching them shrivel as the first invisible flecks of salt
strike home. We were so successful with this spring that we say a drastic
reduction in the overall numbers of slugs we came across over the course of
the summer. In fact, there was no need for patrolling beyond midsummer.
Sticky-backed Copper tape works wonders for potted plants. Run it around
the rim in an unbroken circle. Very effective.
Another useful tip for those plagued with slug problems is to use small
rimmed trays almost filled to the top with beer. Yep, you heard
right. They can smell it. They climb up the edge of the tray, begin to
drink and promptly fall in and drown. Place many at strategic points all
over the area. Bud is our choice of beverage for this, but most any beer
or lager will work. You can get covered slug trays for just this job also.
As is typical of most of the dirty jobs around here, I get cleaning duty
when they're full. Not pretty. Oh, and don't breathe through your nose
while doing it. Still, using beer does have one good sideffect;
Swig, top up, swig, top up, swig.....
James...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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