nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (08/27/85)
From: tp@wucs.UUCP (tom thumbs) > I have just completed a little experiment and now I think I need the >help of net.bizarre to properly interpret the results. > > We have all now heard that if you place a saucer of beer out on >your porch at night in a slug-infested area, you'll find heaps of >dead drowned slugs in it in the morning. The slugs drown because they forget they are underwater(underbeer?) and they open their mouths to sing... > > This gave me an idea. I placed a tub of beer on the back of a >fraternity house porch and, sure enough, when morning came, the entire >frat had drowned in the beer. > This inspired part 2 of the experiment in which I shook salt on >top of frat boys. There was no discernable effect. They don't have the allergy that slugs have. My theory about the slugs' allergy to salt comes from when they crawled(slithered) out of the ocean and the land contains little salt relative to the ocean. The salt-allergic slugs survived as well as normal(!) ones, because that impediment to survival became a non-issue. The slugs elected to not practice eugenics on their species with this unfortunate(for them) result. Do (standard, not ocean-going) slugs live in areas where there is salt in the soil? Has anyone tried salting escargot? > Now, in terms of behavior and cleanliness, there seems little >difference between slugs and frat people. > > The questions: > > 1. are frat boys a species of slug which is salt-resistant? Any self-respecting slug should be insulted by this. > > 2. was there an error in my methods? No. > > 3. are slugs just a degenerate (or perhaps more advanced) form > of fraternity brother? Degenerate. >
nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (08/27/85)
From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) >From: tp@wucs.UUCP (tom thumbs) >> I have just completed a little experiment and now I think I need the >>help of net.bizarre to properly interpret the results. >> >> ...(about frat inhabitants and slugs)... >> >> 3. are slugs just a degenerate (or perhaps more advanced) form >> of fraternity brother? > Degenerate. Oops, I meant "advanced".
crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (09/04/85)
In article <3171@nsc.UUCP> nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) writes: >From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) >>From: tp@wucs.UUCP (tom thumbs) >>> ...(about frat inhabitants and slugs)... >>> >>> 3. are slugs just a degenerate (or perhaps more advanced) form >>> of fraternity brother? >> Degenerate. > Oops, I meant "advanced". As in advanced Polio? -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell