Slug weather

[jhetley]

Damp and cool lately, showers and thundershowers, perfect weather to bring out the Super Slugs. (Technically, leopard slugs or Limax maximus.) Saw two of them on our evening walk, each about six inches long, headed across the sidewalk at a, shall we say, snail's pace, nose to tail. Have to tell the morality police about this, ASAP. Sex on the sidewalks of the Big City.

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Six inches - feh, that's no Super Slug! You want Super Slugs, you need the banana slug, Ariolimax columbianus - these babies grow up to 12 inches long!

Take a look

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no slug skiing on these critters. They get larger, maybe eight when fully extended. Biggest we get around here. But 'tis enough, 'twill do. And they are quite handsome.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

We take you now to the North East Headquarters of the LIMAX LIBERATION ARMY...

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

An obscure and sinister figure concealed behind an ornate Chinese screen is heard to tsk tsk gleefully --

"Our new California Roll Ray (tm) is working PERFECTLY: first monsieur Gawne turns his Bergenholm ON instead of OFF, and now the baleful effects are reaching the ORTHOGRAPHIC centre of his oh-so-capacious brain... It's LIM*E*X, monsieur Gawne, not LIME*A*X..."

"California Roll Ray? Is this a new development, General?" a subordinate inquires obsequiously.

"Yes, indeed... I'm sure you recollect that it has been scientifically proven that every six months of residency in California shaves two points off one's Intelligent Quotient. Well, our Operations Research Arm (generally known by the abbreviation "ORA" -- which is what I advise monsieur Gawne in my best Latin to start doing IMMEDIATELY...) has just succeeded in HARNESSING the effect -- and can now PROJECT it at will... and with monsieur Spider Robinson's next birthday only MONTHS away, we must make every CONCEIVABLE effort to get MASS PRODUCTION underway at ONCE..."

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Little does General Ded realize his peril, but he has found his way into Author Space, where the continuum of space and time are mutable at the whim of the Author, and characters can be _erased_. A shadowy hand reaches over the ornate Chinese screen, bearing a gigantic salt shaker....

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

No, no - the kinder, simpler alternative: and they die happy!

[proffers bottle of American beer]

No great sacrifice, either ...