27 Aug 07
Originally posted by IronstarGood gardeners put out bowls of beer to distract slugs from plants. Alcoholic slugs would definitely drink too much, and take a swimming bath in beer. A bit like Hucks and almost like Wolfie's dreams. Dr Strangelove of slugs may not be inhibited by this cause. Up the slugs!
How would a slug kill itself anyway?
-m.. (yep, bk)
27 Aug 07
Originally posted by mikelomSounds a bit farfetched...
Good gardeners put out bowls of beer to distract slugs from plants. Alcoholic slugs would definitely drink too much, and take a swimming bath in beer. A bit like Hucks and almost like Wolfie's dreams. Dr Strangelove of slugs may not be inhibited by this cause. Up the slugs!
-m.. (yep, bk)
27 Aug 07
Originally posted by IronstarBelieve me. All slugs are alkies! They will go to the smell of alcohol and drink themselves to death!...... if there's enough available. Put an empty margarine tub in your garden half full of beer. Go out next morn and see the result. Pissed up dead slugs!..... you might find a few RHP members........lmao!
I don't think there's a such thing as an alcoholic slug...but then again, with all the other strange stuff that's in the world, I guess I wouldn't be surprised...
(joke!, no offence!)
27 Aug 07
Originally posted by mikelomthats no joke, i'd have it downed before the slugs even spelt it.
Believe me. All slugs are alkies! They will go to the smell of alcohol and drink themselves to death!...... if there's enough available. Put an empty margarine tub in your garden half full of beer. Go out next morn and see the result. Pissed up dead slugs!..... you might find a few RHP members........lmao!
(joke!, no offence!)
27 Aug 07
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Originally posted by mikelomlol...I would have never guessed...
Believe me. All slugs are alkies! They will go to the smell of alcohol and drink themselves to death!...... if there's enough available. Put an empty margarine tub in your garden half full of beer. Go out next morn and see the result. Pissed up dead slugs!..... you might find a few RHP members........lmao!
(joke!, no offence!)
But that's not suicide...that's more of an intended slugicide caused by the gardener or something like that...
27 Aug 07
Originally posted by mikelomActually they (the slugs, not the RHP members) drown rather than drinking themselves to death. Apparently it works with non-alcoholic beverages, too, as long as the smell attracts them.
Believe me. All slugs are alkies! They will go to the smell of alcohol and drink themselves to death!...... if there's enough available. Put an empty margarine tub in your garden half full of beer. Go out next morn and see the result. Pissed up dead slugs!..... you might find a few RHP members........lmao!
(joke!, no offence!)