Re: slugs and other thugs
Karin Hinsen wrote:
>
> 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.
>
It is also the same slug that is often the object of "dares" from one pre-teen
to another of "dare you to kiss it". I will have to ask my daughter if her lips
stuck together afterwards...
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