h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Shooting at what?

Dunno, never asked him. They was ever so close he said, but I couldn't see our side in the film.

"What's the likelihood of finding a Triumph TR6 in Germany?" [Tumsup]

I suppose that would depend on who wanted to find it, and how motivated they were. Check EBay. You never know what will pop up there from time to time.

What I take away from this thread is that you can trust a man who eats maggot sandwiches

Unless you happen to be a maggot.

Um, yes, now that you mention it, good point that

I suppose we should be grateful to anyone who's doing his bit to keep the fly population under control.

As long as there are more appetizing things to eat, I will leave the maggots to those who really want them.

Same here; funny how everyone disapears where a sandwich is offered.

There are places around here where you can get some very tasty sandwiches. Turkey and artichokes on foccaccio is a personal favorite.

...that reminds of a carcase of a hereford steer I saw once in a remote cattle ranching area, with the abdomen burst from the sheer pressure of maggots, maggots spilling on the grass looking for all the world like rice spilling from a hundred pound rice sack, and not a bird in sight...

...on another occasion it was a steer that had died in the night near the compound where I working and a turkey vulture came early in the morning, circled briefly, landed, gorged, flew up again, circled once more, flew away, then two more turkey vultures, then more and more coming into view as distant fly specks from as much as six miles away, so that at the height of the festivities there were as many as fifty turkey vultures on the ground surrounding the carcase all at once, a big family picnic, turkey vulture style, with a moral to be drawn, that even turkey vultures prefer their meat reasonably fresh...

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Urubu_a_tete_rouge_-_Turkey_Vulture.jpg/170px-Urubu_a_tete_rouge_-_Turkey_Vulture.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Vulture&h=242&w=170&sz=8&tbnid=oVTN10k4tHuQwM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=67&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dturkey%2Bvulture,%2Bimages%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=turkey+vulture,+images&docid=roNXTFlHhCAlqM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HvjmTsiLMsHWiAK93oSWBw&ved=0CCIQ9QEwAA&dur=1723

One summer in Oregon, several sheep in our herd were being eaten alive by wool maggots. I was alone with the children at the time, and my oldest daughter (yes, that one), then 12, had to hold the sheep down while I brushed and cut away wool, half-eaten skin, tons of wiggly maggots and all, and the sheep were left with raw flesh on both flanks. Miraculously, they all survived the treatment and recovered, but I don't ever want to have to do that again...

what have I started here. tip toe, tip toe

That's when I decided not to become a vet...

Because I ended up recklessly cutting through maggots and there was no way to save their little lives?

Maggots have been used in human cases of gangrene.

But back to the original subject of this thread, which had something to do with chickens or beautiful women. It's been so long since we've been on topic that I'm not sure any more.

There used to be a field next door until they built a housing estate on it.
We wondered what the awful smell was so I went over the wall to have
a look.
It was a dead, bloated and starting to liquify, and alive with maggots.
Just thinking about it makes me feel a bitbecause I almost landed
on it.

re 57:

Indeed! Turns out clinically clean maggots eat away dead tissue and the like and thus aid the healing process after severe traumas

The maggots secrete some sort of substance that sterilizes the wound.

Mistadrong, what did you mean when you said you almost "landed" on the dead ? Were you flying at the time?