# Aaaiiieee! Ack! GACK!! GACK! blehblah ptooey! Gack! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828 "2001-06-22T22:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/21 "2001-06-23T05:47:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*(taken from [Insect Recipes](http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectnutrition.html) ) > \*\* Slugs are not insects; they’re molluscs. Congratulations, Stoid, you’ve opened up a whole new world of seafood. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/22 "2001-06-23T05:54:21Z")
Oh, _ish_. And for all you trash-minds, it doesn’t help in the least that Pulsating Carrots would make an excellent band name. This is the stuff of nightmares. It conjures up hideous memories of my discovering 1.) a meal worm imbedded in a Reece’s cup and 2.) a cockroach blithely crawling through my Caesar salad in a supposedly upscale restaruant. On one hand I LIKE Reece’s cups and Caesar salad lots more than raw carrots but neither unfortunate incident pulsated against my tongue either. But live slugs? Oh, barf. Miraculously repelled from food, Veb ---
**Author:** ![Devin\_Austra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Devin\_Austra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Devin_Austra)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/23 "2001-06-23T05:59:45Z")
Perfect timing. I wanted to start a new diet anyway…thanks for putting me off my food. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/24 "2001-06-23T06:11:51Z")
I’m glad I never really liked carrots anyway, cause I’ll never be able to eat one again. Ick, ick, ick. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/25 "2001-06-23T07:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*But wait…it’s pulsating! \*\* It’s A FUCKING SLUG!!! AND IT IS ALIVE!!! AND IT WAS IN MY MOUTH AND I RAN MY TONGUE OVER IT!!! \*\* > > Hence the title of this thread. > > Thank you. > > stoid > > \*\* I feel your pain. Once I was in the process of yawning when I accidently sucked up some sort of insect. Anyway it was lodged so far back in my throat that swallowing it was the easiest option. Yuck. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/26 "2001-06-23T15:03:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*:eek: This is officially the grossest, most disgusting thing I’ve ever read on this board. And I’ve read about felching, squicking and **Whammo** ’s feet. \ \*\* BTW I’m not quite sure how I feel about my feet coming in just after felching and squicking. Don’t know whether to be proud or offended. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/27 "2001-06-23T22:30:00Z")
At a former workplace of mine(large grocery store with a bakery) I was behind the bakery counter with a coworker, icing cakes. A fly startles her by landing on her upper lip and she gasps, inhaling as she does. Said fly went up her nostril into her sinus WHERE SHE COULD FEEL IT FLUTTERING! My coworker had to go to the Emergency Room and have it, well, flushed, for lack of a better word. ---
**Author:** ![Wastrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Wastrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wastrel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/28 "2001-06-23T22:43:24Z")
But, how do you think the slug felt when it figured out it was inside your mouth? “Oh my God! I shoulda listened to Mom and just stayed away from carrots!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/29 "2001-06-23T23:34:06Z")
Oh ICKKK!!! EEEEEEEEEWWW!!! Thanks. I’m never eating carrots again. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/30 "2001-06-23T23:44:19Z")
Jeez, everybody knows slugs are no good unless you put _salt_ on 'em. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/31 "2001-06-24T02:04:24Z")
_Pulsating_. That term is now firmly associated with the “slug-in-the-mouth” oogification and stomach-lurching. _Pulsating_. Porn will never be the same. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/32 "2001-06-24T05:25:58Z")
Now I know why I keep coming back to this site. I could never resist a slugfest. Badump-dump. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/33 "2001-06-24T08:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\*BTW I’m not quite sure how I feel about my feet coming in just after felching and squicking. Don’t know whether to be proud or offended. 😃 \*\* Don’t worry, with a little extra effort I’m sure you could move into first place. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/34 "2001-06-24T08:18:59Z")
Inadvertent bug-swallowing can be worse than simply disgusting. Once while at an [endurance riding](http://www.endurance.net/) event, which involved camping miles from, among other things, emergency medical care, a bee or wasp or somesuch stinging critter decided that it would be a good thing to fly into a can of soda that my mom was drinking. She didn’t see it, brought it up to gulp some down, and swallowed it. It stung her on the way down, deep in throat. We figure if she was even slightly allergic to stings, she would have died there from the swelling. As it was, she came home looking like hell. In comparison, at least a slug would slide down nice and easy, and the slime trail would probably even ease the way for all food following. Still, if I had found out that I’d just had a slug inside my mouth, I’d vomit too. Crikey. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/35 "2001-06-24T10:44:07Z")
Are they sort of related to snails? Snails do make good pets, (if you like crawly things). And speaking of “Aaaiiieee! Ack! GACK!! GACK! blehblah ptooey! Gack!”: ----:eek:/ ----///\\ [note: disturbing story ahead] One of my daughters wanted me to look at something the dog may have vomited, because she was worried that he was ill. There was some blood, and what looked like a large, shriveled pea (not bright green but the color of canned peas). I picked it up with a paper towel and examined it, and on the bottom were eight barely visible icky little legs. The dog had apparently pulled an engorged tick off himself (or else the flea and tick collar was working). And no, we did not keep it as a pet. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/36 "2001-06-24T10:50:20Z")
I guess [sea-slugs](http://www.amonline.net.au/invertebrates/mal/index.htm) are related to snails. Sorry for calling you **Stoidella** , I see that you are **Stoid**. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/37 "2001-06-24T10:59:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*:eek: This is officially the grossest, most disgusting thing I’ve ever read on this board. And I’ve read about felching, squicking and **Whammo** ’s feet. \ \*\* OK, I know about felching, and I don’t care about Whammo’s feet, but… What is “squicking”? ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/38 "2001-06-24T13:34:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > it’s been in my mouth! Only beings I feel very close to get to be in my mouth. Nah… too easy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![callie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/39 "2001-06-24T13:51:13Z")
Originally posted by Lumpy \*\* [/QUOTE] Until one day you started screaming in agony and your stomach burst open to reveal the mass of slugs that had been growing inside you. :eek: \*\* [/QUOTE] Yeah - I hate it when that happens. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828/40 "2001-06-24T20:13:55Z")
**TVeblen** said: > [@](#): > > And for all you trash-minds, it doesn’t help in the least that Pulsating Carrots would make an excellent band name. I prefer **Stoid & the Carrot Slugs** myself. **JonScribe** said: > [@](#): > > Luckily for you slugs are pretty slow, otherwise it might have tried to have it’s way with your tongue. Or scampered on down her throat in a desperate bid for freedom. What’s the old song? _There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and wriggled and jiggled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she’ll die._ Sincerely, MysterEcks, who is definitely disturbed and likes to share it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaaiiieee-ack-gack-gack-blehblah-ptooey-gack/69828.md?page=3)