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Zebra
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Posted - 06/13/2009 :  23:26:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Zebra a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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.
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Posted - 06/13/2009 :  23:35:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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Philippines
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Posted - 06/14/2009 :  02:49:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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.
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
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Posted - 06/14/2009 :  10:05:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/14/2009 :  21:43:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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Posted - 06/15/2009 :  01:40:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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.
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.
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Posted - 06/15/2009 :  07:23:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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Posted - 06/15/2009 :  08:19:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/15/2009 :  20:41:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 06/16/2009 :  02:08:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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......




"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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Kil
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Posted - 06/16/2009 :  09:58:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 06/16/2009 :  13:01:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/22/2009 :  19:21:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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14408 Posts

Posted - 06/23/2009 :  03:08:21   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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.

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!





"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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