Swallowed fly, but didn't die

[Intelligenthamster]

Jamie, IIRC from O-level biology the little beggars are hermaphrodites, so if you have just two in your garden, you will have more!

The milk story reminds me of my first rented house, had an ill-fitting back door. The only way I could keep the slugs out was to spread a line of cheap cooking salt across the doorstep and renew it after rain. It worked, although I had to endure the ritual wisecracks from friends about doing coke.

 

[Banjo]

Slugs and snails are garden vermin that destroy my French marigolds. But occasionally while smashing 'em to oblivion with my trowel I have wondered why some people are quite happy to eat snails but everyone agrees slugs are disgusting?

After all, a slug is just a snail that didn't get its mortgage before the credit crunch.

I think you missed the point there. The snails are the ones wishing they had just rented.

 

[ufkacbln]

I took the shell off a snail once, to see if it would go faster. It just made it a bit more sluggish.

What did the slug say to the snail?


".... Big Issue, Sir?"

 

[ufkacbln]

We looked after a friend's kids (4 and 6) for the weekend while their mother was in Hospital.

It was one of those nights when all the snails come out, so we used our method of removing them with a tennis racket.

A few weeks later we got a phone call from their mother in fits of laughter after the kids had shown her how to play "snail tennis"

 

[Lis]

OMG!! I thought it was a joke!! I almost swallow a moskito the other day...I imagine is not a fun experience, it sounds awful, I guess another rule, keep your mouth close at all times LOL!

 

[Cubist]

OMG!! I thought it was a joke!! I almost swallow a moskito the other day...I imagine is not a fun experience, it sounds awful, I guess another rule, keep your mouth close at all times LOL!

Sound advice. Especially MTBing on farm tracks.