Re: slugs and other thugs
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: slugs and other thugs
- From: K* H* <s*@mtnweb.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:14:11 GMT
At 12:54 PM 4/18/96 MDT, you wrote:
>
> In keeping with the old adage that one must know the enemy - here is
>the beginning of a diatribe on the lowlife that we call 'slugs and snails'.
>They are mollusks, subclass Pulmonata.
> Some claim that slugs are gaining a sort of popularity today. They've
>been chosen to be the SCHOOL MASCOT by the Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz (only in
>California could this happen...) They are the object of festivals (!) and
>various retail goodies from T-shirts to dolls and replicas.....
I live in Santa Cruz, home of the banana slug- 5+ inches long and banana
yellow. It doesn't hit the garden the way the little one do. I kind of like
it actually. It grows on you in a kind of perverse sort of way. I have heard
that it is symbiotic with the redwood forests in some way. The slime though
is real gross. If you get on your hand or hair (like I did once) it almost
takes a solvent like gasoline to get is off. The slime is so sticky and
slimy that is should have some industrial use. I love it that UCSC has the
slug as it's mascot. Show how unpretentious the school it. In my eyes it
shows more humor? maturity? courage? than calling their team the cougers or
eagles or such.
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Karin Hinsen seconfid@mtnweb.com
Central coast of California
