my flowerpot is full of snails!!

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ok this may not sound very remarkable but i live FOUR FLOORS UP!! where did they come from?

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Snails crawl up walls.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i think they must have HATCHED!! they are in with the thyme, which i only planted out abt six weeks ago

i heart snails though i guess they will now eat all my mint and lenten roses possibly :(

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

they do not crawl in troop formation nick!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

They do! I have seen entire doors covered with their manouveres.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i shall cover your hair with my manouevres

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

he said hanle yesquely

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm.. more like a posh games master. Perhaps you are right about the hatching. I feel outmanouevred.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think your downstairs neighbours threw them up there.

― C J (C J), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I read this as Mr Flowerpot and thought you'd just found an old childhood play-thing in the shed. (And that Mr Flowerpot was a very nice name).

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I alone in being reminded of what I think was a Monty Python sketch about deliberately wrong holiday phrasebooks, featuring a foreign tourist reading out the line "My hovercraft is full of eels"?

Also, is there some sort of game today with pursuing themes? Every post of Mark's seems to be about flowerpots, and The Pinefox keeps bringing up Proust.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that BB is over we have become preoccupied with minutiae.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

martin yes that phrase is of course the ghost behind this one

everything notable that happened to me today has involved flowerpots — if there is a game being played i am not the gamesmaster, posh or otherwise!!

CJ you are possibly correct

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they're a paratrooper division?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

throw that pot over the ledge onto your neighbor

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the snails pushed the pot over the ledge last time.

― C J (C J), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

And that Mr Flowerpot was a very nice name.

Which immediately made me think of Love And Rockets' "Yin and Yang (The Flower Pot Man)"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

snails sometimes appear spontaneously. Like chikory, or the Tardis. in fact, you probably don't have a freakin' CLUE as to what has been appearing in your apartment. I bet Boz Skags is currently hopeing for a view of your naked bosom.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 27 July 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I reckon the snails were snatched by an eagle, but it took too many and some dropped out of it's claws and fell into your flowerpots. Happens all the time.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

escargot farm

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF, I can't possibly be the only person delighted that N. walked into the trap of replying first, right? Where were the slugfucker accusations? I got off for a day and you people slip like bastards.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

martin yes that phrase is of course the ghost behind this one

I am happy to know this. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

ok i looked again this morning and the earth round the thyme is HEAVING with tiny weeny little snails, millions of them!! it is interesting but scary

my sister gave this plant as a nice gift, what is going on :(

i suspect some hideous invasion of the bodysnatchers type thing (as directed by abel ferrara since that had the hottest scene in it as i recall)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark you should market your snail plant!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

do snails lay eggs or what? i have never given their reproductive cycle much thought EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THAT SOME SNAILS HAVE AS MANY AS FIVE DETACHABLE PENISES YET ARE STILL BOTH SEXES AT ONCE!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma's dad tried to persuade me that French people love to eat slugs. "Me, I prefer snails," he said. I was incredulous. "Emma, do you really eat slugs??" "Of course not, who told you that?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing about detachable penises is strange though. If I was a snail I'd want all my penises on, all the time.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What, as opposed to how you feel as a human???????????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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