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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ksen
I knew it!
To: ksen
I knew it!
To: ksen
I knew it!
To: Corin Stormhands
Sure you're leaving 16 posts out...Wouldn't want to disappoint the masses..........sneak.
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posted on
09/03/2002 7:50:01 PM PDT
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ksen
To: Corin Stormhands
Sure you're leaving 16 posts out...Wouldn't want to disappoint the masses..........sneak.
23,605
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09/03/2002 7:50:06 PM PDT
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ksen
To: ksen
Shameless, absolutely shameless...(And I got the semi-precious)...
To: Corin Stormhands
Boy, you sure do have an itchy trigger finger.
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posted on
09/03/2002 7:51:49 PM PDT
by
ksen
To: Corin Stormhands
Ask us about easy fish when the time comes to set up a tank... maybe start out with fish like a Beta or neons or Mollies that are pretty hardy. Mollies will breed too, if you have one male and several females (get more than a pair... one female cannot bear all the attention the males want to give... he'll exhaust her). That is kinda fun because they have live births, not eggs. and most of them survive if you have hidey places. The parents eat some of them.
To: Corin Stormhands
I didn't realize where we were until I read your post before logging off for the night.
Now I'm REALLY going to bed!
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09/03/2002 7:53:07 PM PDT
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ksen
To: HairOfTheDog; JenB; Sam Cree
Perhaps I am just a spoiled American, but I never considered wishing I could eat the snails!Guess you would not have done your patriotic duty back around 1960 in Fort Lauderdale. As often happens in south Florida, an exotic animal with no natural enemies in the US started to get established there, after somebody let some loose. These were giant African Land Snails whose shells were more than 6 inches across. They were slithering all over, leaving slimy paths several inches across. For a while it was thought that they couldn't be stopped from taking over southern Florida. Then somebody discovered that they tasted just like giant escargot!
YUM YUM!!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Eating enormous snails sounds yuckier than the idea of eating these little guys. At least these little guys could be hidden in some soup. No need to field-dress them and filet them!
To: HairOfTheDog
I had Mollies when I was a kid. They bred a couple of times. My mom did all the caring for them though, but they eventually passed on as well.
Maybe I'm just not meant to have fish.
To: Corin Stormhands
G'nite folks. I'm turning in.
To: Corin Stormhands
Maybe, but eventually everything dies, Corin.... Fish are not long-lived creatures... a few years and a couple batches of babies, and they call it a life and fade away...
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Those snails sound big enough to shoot, say with a .223. OTOH, maybe they'd make good ammo for a potato gun.
Somehow, I don't remember having seen one. I bet they'd be noticable if you ran over one with a car, though.
To: Sam Cree; Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Those snails sound big enough to shootSounds like they'd take a lot of salt!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
When we were in FL this August, the Gulf was churned up by Trop. Storm Bertha and we had one morning when tons of sea slugs were washed up on the beach. It was GROSS! One little girl had one in a bucket of water and the darn thing looked like a baby manta ray with wings and everything. Actually my sister in law said it looked like a sea Cucumber. Whatever, it took two days for them to dry out and get washed away!
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
"Sounds like they'd take a lot of salt!"
You mean if you loaded up your shotgun with rock salt and nails?
To: Sam Cree
We have common garden snails in our yard. Rose hates snails... but she likes pouring table salt on them. It makes them dissolve. (ick!)
To: All
Uh oh... looks like I may have poured salt on the thread.
Oh well, good time to go to bed. Good night all!
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