What’s up with all the slugs up in DC? Every time it rains, walking to work is like playing hopscotch with snots instead of chalk lines. I don’t like them but I don’t like stepping on them either.
I know, they’re part of the biomass, an important link in the food chain, the circle of life. They are also fucking gross. It might be different if they had shells; snails are cool. Slugs are disgusting.
Yes, I know, I need to: suck it up, get a life, a job, a car, a hobby, or fucked. To which I reply: I do, I have, I have 2, I won’t, I sniff glue, and occasionally.
I’ll repeat myself; Slugs are fucking gross.
And when coffee/donut shops pilot a new “Breakfast Baquette Avec Escargots”, don’t say your old buddy didn’t warn you. —Doug, and the…
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OB complains about slugs but is the only one leaving a slimey trail behind him- or herself wherever he/she goes.
…only when I eat chipotle.
i saw doug and the slugs play at a bar…they were pretty good and not slimey
you should collect them up and sell them to said shop for their breakfasts.
make it 3 jobs and you solve the slug problem.
For some reason slugs find beer irresistible. Take cans that have just a couple of inches of beer in the bottom of them and bury them to the lip where you see them all. The slugs will fall into the beer and become trapped.
Something tells me Z-man, that will never replace the tequila worm in popularity. And you’re correct Painey, Doug Bennet was a hoot on stage. Much missed.
DC? District of Columbia??
Dartmouth Crossing – the new Gulag.
It rains, their holes fill up with water and out they come just like worms.
Be thankful you don’t live in the countryside in China when it rains; snake city!
In the summer once, my friend and I parked and decided to walk all over DC. Bad choice…you know how sometimes there will be a cloud of flies all flying together? Well, there was NUMEROUS clouds of flies everywhere! I think it’s because it’s all weird and swampy there? But it’s on a hill kinda so I don’t know what’s up with that.
We’ll just tack that one on to my growing list of reasons to be glad I don’t live in China. Thanks Fat.
and i never intended to go to dc ( either one )…some sales rep came into the shop wanting us to move our business out there…hah piss orf i said
Who leaves “an inch or 2 ” of beer in their drinking container ?
I can see a ‘drop or 2′ …but a friggin’ inch …or TWO !!
The cans are only 6 inches high ! ! ! !
I’d never go out there if I didn’t have to for work and I’d never go to shop, but to be honest on nice days the walk from the Tims up into the Logistics Park can be pleasant. Lots of birch trees, a little stream, plenty of corbies and other birds. I’ve seen some sort of raptor, neither an eagle nor an osprey, dive into a field and fly off with some kind of rodent in his talons. In the sand next to the sidewalk this morning were fresh deer tracks.
true.. but you want them to be able to smell it…
a couple drops likely won’t cut it.
and believe me, I would hate to have to waste beer on slugs….
just giving the facts though. you could always just wait until it’s bad and dump a bunch of salt all over the place too… that’d do it.
You pussy! Those little wee NS slugs don’t even compare to these freaking huge banana slugs they have out here. Dam things are bigger than giant dills! I had one in my tent and I thought ‘ Who is the asshole that threw a pickle in my tent?’ When I went to pick it up it MOVED! Needless to say I no longer sleep while camping with the bottom of my tent flap un-zipped no matter how many times I have to piss throughout the night and yes they do like beer, so I guess they’re mostly male?
I don’t know what part of Nova Scotia you used to live in ‘Bluenower in BC…but I’ve seen slugs in Dartmouth when I lived there, they were spotted and according to my kids teacher were called leopard slugs & the damn things were about 6 inches long !
rather shocking to see when the usual ones around here, are only an inch or so !
Wow, glad I never ran in to one of those either. I’m from Hants Co, so just the little ones here (we have other things to worry about out that way).
They’re frick’n huge in On. and june bugs omfg now their fucking disgusting 🙂
aaah june bugs…waking up in the valley, walking out on the porch…crunch crunch crunch
I’ll take June Bugs over Wood Ticks anytime!
the worst of all northern ON. black/deer/horse flies those things can home in on your ass for hours and omfg god their bites last for days and days 🙁
yeah, at least june bugs don’t burrow, but it’s like their too heavy to fly…the clowns of the bug kingdom, always bouncing off stuff
and getting caught in your hair , icky gross 🙂
the horse flies in northern ontario can carry away small people…you know when they bite you that they are feeding a big family. ouch
this sort of reminds me of a sick joke i heard awhile back. why did god give women legs, will tell you answer later, after you have had time to think it over. it’s gross too, but funny. and yes, slugs disgust me also.
any reference about slimy trails being left behind there?
ninja,sort of. “WHY DID GOD GIVE WOMEN LEGS”,answer=so they wouldn’t leave snail trails. gross yes. funny, a bit. but kill the one who came up with it in first place, not me.
ahhh june bugs… that brings back the memories…
I just love that even the little smog we have keeps the bugs away in the city…
I could do without bees/hornets too but don’t want to live in a world without honey so I suppose I’ll tolerate them.
there has been a huge increase in honey bees this season…good for all
In North Preston, they are known as “shell casings.”