# Limaxaphobia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654 "2004-02-05T12:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/1 "2004-02-05T12:14:38Z")
**_n._ A fear of slugs** Google turns up only 8 results for ‘limaxaphobia’, yet I know two other people who hate slugs as much as me. _shudder_ Anyone else? Or are we really a trio of freaks? ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/2 "2004-02-05T12:34:26Z")
Try: “fear of slugs” – 28 links “I hate slugs” – 163 slugophobia – 3 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/3 "2004-02-05T12:57:58Z")
Ahhh…but merely _hating_ them just makes you a keen gardener. I’m talking irrational paranoid phobia, here ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CallMeMary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CallMeMary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeMary)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/4 "2009-07-20T05:47:29Z")
I am terribly afraid of slugs. Irrationally even. I mean, I start crying when I just see a picture of one. So, its more of a quadruplet thing going on I guess…but I am sure glad to know I’m not alone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/5 "2009-07-20T05:57:42Z")
If there’s anything slower than a slug, it’s a zombie slug. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/6 "2009-07-20T06:06:41Z")
Not to the irrational level, but IME there’s many people who hate slugs yet find “slugs with their house on top” cute. I’m one of them. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/7 "2009-07-20T11:07:08Z")
My daughter has that. If she sees one she screams and starts to cry. She refers to slugs (and snails) as the enemy. Last week I had cream of snail soup at a restaurant. I tried to explain to her that eating them is the best revenge but she wasn’t having any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/8 "2009-07-20T11:22:02Z")
So it’s not a fear of open sourced POSIX-compliant OSes? (Oh, I guess that would be Linuxaphobia.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/9 "2009-07-20T12:09:34Z")
This is a zombie, but a slow-moving one – I’ll leave it open, we can outrun it. twickster, MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/10 "2009-07-20T12:26:39Z")
I guess this would be a good place to mention the killer slugs of Scandinavia? (They’re an invader species from Spain and they eat all the domestic slugs. So far, anyway…) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/11 "2009-07-20T12:53:54Z")
Two words will solve your slug problems: Sodium Chloride. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/12 "2009-07-20T13:01:39Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > This is a zombie, but a slow-moving one – I’ll leave it open, we can outrun it. > > twickster, MPSIMS moderator I wonder if my daughter would be afraid of zombie slugs? The only other thing that I know she’s afraid of is anime. The big eyes creep her out. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/13 "2009-07-20T13:08:53Z")
Slugs…and snails…squick me the frick out. Guess where I grew up? The outskirts of Seattle. Besides the horrid banana slugs, just the regular brown slugs grew enormous, and my two younger brothers loved to skewer them on sticks and chase me around, trying to touch me with them. _shudder_ I have a horrid story, but unless I receive massed pleas for it, I won’t squick myself out telling it. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/14 "2009-07-20T13:37:37Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > I guess this would be a good place to mention the killer slugs of Scandinavia? > > (They’re an invader species from Spain and they eat all the domestic slugs. So far, anyway…) So they are the killer Spanish-Swedish slugs? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/15 "2009-07-20T14:09:09Z")
I loathe them. There’s someting about them that strikes me at such a visceral level…fat witchety grubs and earthworms too. Lizards and spiders, however, don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/16 "2009-07-20T14:16:17Z")
> [@kaiwik](#): > > I have a horrid story, but unless I receive massed pleas for it, I won’t squick myself out telling it. _shudder_ Tell us the slug horror story. TELL US. > [@Nava](#): > > So they are the killer Spanish-Swedish slugs? If they’re cross-breeding with the local population instead of consuming them, maybe. Both species are pretty big - saw a 6-inch killer slug specimen this morning while biking around. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/17 "2009-07-20T14:22:35Z")
Salting of the Slug When first I came to Jolton my fortune there to find. I met some jolly countrymen, on barbecue we dined. The talk soon turned to sport and game as the old style we chugged. They said lad you have not lived till you have salt the slug. We raised high our shakers full of Morton’s finest grain. We crept out to the garden damp the creature there to find. We watched each creature swell and pop, did thrill me to the core. And every slug did learn that night that when it rains it pours. So if you’re e’er in Joulton, quaffing chilly brew. And hearty lads and lassies fair do salt a slug or two. Pray join the sporting company forsaking sex and drugs. God bless us jolly salterers and have pity on the slugs ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/18 "2009-07-20T16:35:09Z")
There was an episode of \*Fear Factor \*where the challenge was the contestants had to eat live slugs. Not little tiny ones, either…big old nightmarish ones. I could stand having spiders on my face, I think, and lying in a box with rats. But if I’d been a contestant on that episode I would have had no shame saying, “I’m out” and walking away (unless all that stuff is faked?) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limaxaphobia/227654/19 "2009-07-20T18:37:11Z")
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