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Posted by: DNHunt Jul 16 2005, 09:53 AM

Next this . This the worst around here. 6" Banana Slug. Big ones on the Olympic Pennisula get to be 9".


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Posted by: DNHunt Jul 16 2005, 09:55 AM

The thing followed me into the shop

Dave


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Posted by: rhodyguy Jul 16 2005, 09:58 AM

but the "oriental style" is great in stir fry.

k


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Posted by: bernbomb914 Jul 16 2005, 09:59 AM

Dont let it near your Nickies

Bernie

Posted by: redshift Jul 16 2005, 10:17 AM

Posted by: Bruce Allert Jul 16 2005, 10:23 AM

I got a lot of those big sucka's on Campus... tried the old salt trick (ya right)! all it did was make them slime more & crawled off. I tried pouring a mountain of salt on'm. Slim'd again & crawled off Dey's SUPER slugs

A hammer is the only thing that stops'm

.........b

Posted by: lapuwali Jul 16 2005, 10:53 AM

Fill a large dog bowl with cheap beer and leave it out. They crawl up into it, get sloshed, and can't crawl out again. Works remarkably well...

Posted by: Travis Neff Jul 16 2005, 12:23 PM

Back when I lived in washinton I had some roommates with a 2 year old boy. They were trying to get him to go to the bathroom before bed. He would not do it. I told him to go find some slugs in the backyard and pee on them. All exited off he ran peeing on about 4 slugs. He was giggling up a storm when he came back. I then asked what the slugs were doing now, so he gets down about 2" away from the slug and say eeeewww! there MELTING! heh heh heh.

Posted by: TonyAKAVW Jul 16 2005, 01:35 PM

I bet a 5 second burst of brake cleaner would pretty much take it out.

-Tony

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Jul 16 2005, 03:28 PM

You guys are gonna here from PETS. People for the Ehical Treatment of Slugs.
Cheers, Elliot

Posted by: kwales Jul 16 2005, 04:46 PM

Mmmmmmmm, Mmmmmmmmmm GOOD!

Anybody have any hot dog buns?

Nuttin lilke a little slug on the grill on a bun.......

Ken

Posted by: J P Stein Jul 16 2005, 04:56 PM

The beer in the bowl works gud. Just don't forget to empty is regularly or it becomes a frothing mass of.....sludge......that word doesn't do it justice. Doesn't smell too shiney either.

Posted by: DNHunt Jul 16 2005, 07:21 PM

Ducks are the answer, they love em. Then you can eat the ducks. Um Good

Posted by: redshift Jul 16 2005, 07:24 PM

QUOTE (Bruce Allert @ Jul 16 2005, 12:23 PM)

I got a lot of those big sucka's on Campus... tried the old salt trick (ya right)! all it did was make them slime more & crawled off. I tried pouring a mountain of salt on'm. Slim'd again & crawled off Dey's SUPER slugs

ROFLMAO! LOL HAHAHAHA! HAhahshehehaha

Posted by: tat2dphreak Jul 16 2005, 07:42 PM

QUOTE (TonyAKAVW @ Jul 16 2005, 02:35 PM)

I bet a 5 second burst of brake cleaner would pretty much take it out. -Tony

followed by a match

you gonna burn in HELL... (slug hell)

Posted by: redshift Jul 16 2005, 07:45 PM

I can't help but wonder just how these poor snot monsters got on the 'DIE! DIE! DIE!' list.




M

Posted by: smooth_eddy Jul 16 2005, 08:28 PM

Actually the yellow banana ones are not bad. It's the brown ones that will eat your garden in the night. Eddy

Posted by: redshift Jul 16 2005, 09:19 PM

Ok, I see..

So Dave, ducks eat banana slugs? Slug fattened ducks don't seem too appealing, as a dinner.. and then you have the persistant banana slug/eaten duck syndrome, anyhow..

Does anything eat duck shit? I am thinking that is the answer.


M

Posted by: rhodyguy Jul 16 2005, 09:23 PM

other ducks eat duck shit. they poop in the water they drink too. i like petting ducks. so does that smartty pants guy carl rove. oops.

r, today

Posted by: redshift Jul 16 2005, 09:27 PM

Uhoh, this thread is getting political.

I had no idea that banana slugs could be so...mmm.. partisan.


M

Posted by: DNHunt Jul 16 2005, 09:41 PM

Hey Miles you like crab. Crabs eat .

Posted by: Bruce Allert Jul 16 2005, 10:51 PM

QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 16 2005, 06:45 PM)

I can't help but wonder just how these poor snot monsters got on the 'DIE! DIE! DIE!' list. M

Miles, have you ever stepped on a slug barefoot
You need to use gas to get the slime off... ya, really, no shit! N'if they're big enought n' you step on'm on the sidewalk it's like a bananna peal. Seen many'a folks bust'n their buns from slip'n on slugs

.........b

Posted by: bd1308 Jul 17 2005, 07:45 AM

cool rhyme. didn't know salt didnt work on slugs. i never burned ants with a magnifing glass either. burned myself once with the same technique. put a huge gaping hole in my brain......

Posted by: scotty b Jul 17 2005, 08:11 AM

QUOTE (DNHunt @ Jul 16 2005, 05:21 PM)

Ducks are the answer, they love em. Then you can eat the ducks. Um Good

Why not just eat the slugs and cut out the middle man, errr middle duck?
"Save a duck, eat a slug" That should be the new bumper sticker for you guys

Posted by: scotty b Jul 17 2005, 08:36 AM

You know you can drink their poo right?


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Posted by: redshift Jul 17 2005, 09:33 AM

Mmmm Slurm..


M

Posted by: Pugbug Jul 17 2005, 09:36 AM

You guys are so cruel.....Banana slugs=Good.
I read a piece of research done on them a couple of years ago. According to the article an ingredient in their slime is a great treatment for exzema. The scientists are trying to isolate it.
I take daily walks around a local lake....I have had a patch of exzema on my left arm for years....Itched constantly.....I see slug and say to myself ..."what the hell" and pick up slug...Rug slime on exzema patch.....
This was two years ago, and it worked ....no more exzema, but if I have to repeat the "treatment" I won't pick up the slug with my bare hands again....The slime is impossible to wash off.

Posted by: rhodyguy Jul 17 2005, 09:44 AM

the same stuff is great for sore throats too, but you're not supposed to swallow the whole slug. it's the swabing that gags me. slug slime harvesting is the new cottage industry in washington. interesting tip tho.

k

Posted by: redshift Jul 17 2005, 09:46 AM

GROSSSSS

Posted by: scrz914 Jul 17 2005, 01:51 PM

Banana Slugs are treated with much reverence here in Santa Cruz. UCSC even uses them as their mascot. Check out the movie Pulp Fiction. Travolta has a UCSC Banana Slugs T-shirt.

Posted by: olav Jul 17 2005, 02:08 PM

Slugs are great for hemroids too!!

Just grab one and use it as a suppository, the slime soothes the little red fellers.

That's what my Grandma said anyway.



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