If it’s beer, for drinking.
If it’s Bud Ice, for throwing the unopened cans at the snails.
When they say snails the size of a hand, do they mean an open one or one curled into a fist? Because if they mean curled into a fist, we’ve got moon snails in Puget Sound that can get twice that size. Or, if an open hand, about the same size of a Barbados killer snail. Thankfully, moon snails are loathe to leave the water and are only rarely seen at low tide.
However, folks like Miller might not want to get too close to the water.
Just in case.
Oh my lord. Can I count snails the size of my hand as offiicially something I never want to see? And “giant ravenous snails” as a phrase I never wanted to hear? I’m having bad dreams and I’m not actually asleep yet.
Of course maybe if they were named Gary…
That was Tim Holt (also of The Magnificent Ambersons) in The Monster that Challenged the World (I didn’t even have to look that up).
Not an entirely bad little movie, but the filmmakers (IIRC) semed to be under the false impression that the All American Canal drains from the Salton Sea into the Sea of Cortez–or maybe vice versa.
Dr. Rieux, chldhood Imperial Valley resident
Here is a picture of one, roughly half the size of a little girl’s face :eek:
Besides, they look like they’d be too tough to eat, even if you did cook 'em up good.
-foxy
Forget the snails, they’re being overrun by free-floating, disembodied little-girl heads! Surely garlic butter can’t be the solution to this too?
I have a treat for the pair of you, Slugs, muerte viscosa! As a bonus, the rather brief Wikipedia article is my creation! 
I know, but I like the way I put it better.
Don’t know why, but the thought of snails riding on top of snails highly disturbs me.
It’s just something I never considered before in my life. The existence of such a phenomenon just ain’t right. What is causing the snails to do this? It’s bad enough they move at the pace of grass growing. Are the fuckers so lazy that they have to bum rides off each other now? That’s probably why they are so huge. This breed of snails is slothful even for snails.
And how can they manage to fit on top of each other, anyway? Don’t their shells get in the way? And why would they agree to carry each other along like this? Do they take turns piggybacking each other?
Like I said, this whole thing is disturbing to me.
On behalf of all Americans, I apologize that we’re exporting that crap to Spain.
She does, but I’ve heard the “walk for your lives…it’s killer snails” joke before. My variation on that was an old-fashioned movie serial where the heroine gets kidnapped by a gang of garden snails. The message at the end would say, “To be continued next week…and the week after that…and the week after that…”
On behalf of all Americans, I can’t believe we’re exporting that crap to Spain…or that somebody there wants it badly enough that it needs to be imported.
Still, Spain isn’t really a beer drinking country is it? Don’t most people there prefer wine?
So now we have giant, lazy-ass snails riding along on each other’s backs, while they imbibe thirty cans of Bud Ice an hour…not a pretty picture.
There was a snail riding on the back of a turtle once…what did he say? “Wheeee!!”
Omigod, it bit her head off! Slow-moving little girls are being decapitated by snails!!
Aagh… get away! Run to your garage, hop in and make your S car go!
Wait, is the floating little girl’s head actually riding on top of the snail’s shell?!
[sub] and is she saying “wheeee!”?[/sub]
Nobody’s suggested coralling them into a giant ravenous snail army?
Well, I think it would be cool.
When someone flings a trenchcoat open in front of me, I’m looking for something with a little bit more heft than a snail.
I, for one, welcome our new univalve overlords.