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101 uses for Vibrating snails
Snailrind Posted Sep 1, 2004
Willomying! 
You wanna be careful about handling nudibranchs, S & T (though you sound like you might know this)--some of them have very nasty stings. 
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Scandrea Posted Sep 1, 2004
I know- and this is the first one I've actually ever seen!
I didn't touch it- it was only about the size of a US 50 cent piece, and I was afraid I'd kill it. So, I just cupped my hands around it, and watched it dance around for a little while before I let it go.
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tsarina Posted Sep 1, 2004
am going to look really stupid now but............what is a nudibranch???
101 uses for Vibrating snails
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Sep 1, 2004
Traveller in Time 
looking in a magnifier
"A nude slug like creature living in tropical seas, most common around coral reefs.
They can 'swim' by wildly swinging their body, this has something of a whirling 'Spanish dancer'"
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Sep 1, 2004
Nope.. I would like to know too... Please 
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tsarina Posted Sep 1, 2004
traveller 
Am now the holder of another useless bit of information 
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Sep 1, 2004
Oh!!..I have seen them!!... They have frilly edges all down the side of them!!... But I have never heard them called that before.
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Scandrea Posted Sep 1, 2004
That's the scientific jargon name for them.
Yay Nudibranchs! 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 2, 2004
Is the snail still vibrating?
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Sep 2, 2004
if not, do you want us to wind it up again? Yay, a wind and go snail, I wonder if you can over tighten the spring and make it zip about the garden?
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 2, 2004
oh, if you could 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Sep 2, 2004
wind
wind
wind
wind
*click*
wind
wind
wind
*creak*
wind
I think it's ready, have you cleared the path of obstacles? Don't want it to knock itself out
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 2, 2004
*moves the hoover out of the way Ready! 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Sep 2, 2004
OK, stand back:-
*click*
*whirrrrrrrrrrrr*
..........................................................vroom.(....(...(..(.(.._@_'-'
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 2, 2004
That was cuel! 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Sep 2, 2004
Hmmm, think i have some of that packing foam indoors. Shall we try and streamline it?
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 2, 2004
Streamline it!? 
Look at it, its miles away already, and still going! I'll go rescue it 
I'm catching on it!
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Sep 2, 2004
Traveller in Time on the sports bench
"There goes the two legs, they are heading for the first round and look what the winding snail does! he takes over, two rounds ahead of the two legs and taking over again, he is going to win this time. winding snail in the lead and two legs just can not keep up with it.
Look what happens now! Two legs deploys his secret weapon he take sout his hoover, he is going to hoover the track . . . "
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Sep 3, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"Audio only broadcast (snails can not focus on images)"
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- 221: Snailrind (Sep 1, 2004)
- 222: Scandrea (Sep 1, 2004)
- 223: tsarina (Sep 1, 2004)
- 224: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Sep 1, 2004)
- 225: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Sep 1, 2004)
- 226: tsarina (Sep 1, 2004)
- 227: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Sep 1, 2004)
- 228: Scandrea (Sep 1, 2004)
- 229: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 2, 2004)
- 230: IctoanAWEWawi (Sep 2, 2004)
- 231: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 2, 2004)
- 232: IctoanAWEWawi (Sep 2, 2004)
- 233: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 2, 2004)
- 234: IctoanAWEWawi (Sep 2, 2004)
- 235: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 2, 2004)
- 236: IctoanAWEWawi (Sep 2, 2004)
- 237: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 2, 2004)
- 238: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Sep 2, 2004)
- 239: David B - Singing Librarian Owl (Sep 3, 2004)
- 240: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Sep 3, 2004)
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