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Hi! This is the article formerly known as 'Worms'. I altered it slightly, added some stuff about reproduction, and I've changed the title due to a point made by Shorn Canary (U143441). Does anyone think it has a chance at getting into the Edited Guide?

It's looking good Touconos.

Worms make for good eating as well. Check put the article about eating insects and grubs that is featured on h2g2s front page today (8/12/00 NZ time). There is a discussion about flat worms in one of the threads.

I like this article about worms.

In the section about mating, the sentence about the egg sac and the cuff doesn't seem to make much sense. Perhaps you could rephrase it.

I found a strange worm on my front door step the other day. Does anyone know what it was? The front of it looked like an ordinary worm, but around the middle it widened out. It seemed to have a light coloured flat underside, although the top of it was round. It's cross section at the wide part would be a semicircle.

Good entry!

But I'd like you to leave out the sentence about the old lady: (after that little old lady who lives down the road).

How about adding a paragraph about the earthworms from New Zealand that are killing British worms - the slime left by the NZ worm is fatal to the British worm.

It's a bit of a mystery how the worms travelled from one side of the globe to the other but they were probably hitched a ride with some plants.

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Loony

Hi Touconos, its you dilgigent subbie Beeblefish here ...

Your article is being worked on at www.h2g2.com/A342901 if there is anything else you wnt to pipe in let me know!

Cheers!

~Beeblefish

Brilliant, thanks Sorry, i haven't been around for a while, so I've only just noticed what's going on

np

~Beeblefish

Hi Beeblefish!

How goes the editing? I'm a scout now!
I was just looking att he article again and I was wondering whether the comment in the first line (about the little old ladies) should go. What do you think?

Touconos

I was thinking that too .. consider it done .. now that my major project is done I can get back to subbing ..

~Nathan?Beeblefish

I know it's your job, but I've spotted a spelling mistake
It's the second sentence of the paragraph titled 'So how do they mate?'. It says 'dispite' instead of 'despite'.

Touconos