BS: BS Worms

Subject: BS Worms
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:16 PM

Hello, Does anyone know about worms? I heard something on the radio about them, but dident catch it all, How do worms reproduce? do they lay eggs? I know you all think Im weird, laying in bed thinking about worms, but I am wondering, and I am a bit drunk,If anyone dosent like yhis thread please feek free to cancel it.jojn

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Burke
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:31 PM

I did a Google search on worms and reproduction. Will this answer your question?

I have got to have something better to do with my time!

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: khandu
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:51 PM

Hey, I'm going to Hull! Looks like you are enjoying a great drunken state. And, jojn, I hope no one feeks free to cancel this Mudcat Moment!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 01:26 AM

I like worms. Worms are useful. Do you know how much crap (literally) we would be buried under if it weren't for worms. Who do you think gets rid of all those leaves in Autumn (Fall)? Worms don't smoke, drink or crap on your carpet. I like worms. Still know bog all about their sex life though.... just that a ball of mating worms can get to the size of a tennis ball....

And how come, crawling through all that dirt, you never dig up dirty worms?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: gnu
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 05:50 AM

The fact that worms do the head to toe thing reminds me of a joke once told to our sophomore structural analysis class by one of the most straight-laced, deadpan professors you could imagine... the guy used to begin at the buzzer and end at the buzzer, filling board after board with derivations, never saying a word. One day he stopped in mid-formula, turned and said, rapidly, "That reminds me of the short man and the tall woman. When they were nose to nose, his toes was in her and, when they were toes to toes, his nose was in her and, when he was in her, she was lonely." He immediately returned to the derivation. Two months later, at the end of the last class of the semester, he said, "Good luck on your final exam."

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 07:25 AM

Gosh. Just think of all the mummified cadavers we would have lying around, were it not for worms...would it help if we over here started another revolution just to give you guys something to do?

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 07:29 AM

And as Les Barker put it....

There is nothing like a Worm...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 07:42 AM

Must mention the Folklore Legends of large worms aka serpents/dragone etc. These give no insight into reproductive processes unfortunately Les. Cheers in Wormland - John

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 07:46 AM

That should be spelt wyrms, traditionally. If you want to know how wyrms (and dragons) reproduce, read John Wyndham's 'Jizzle'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: nutty
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 09:34 AM

John ... from your thread posts I had you down as an upright sort of character ...... obviousy at times you are prone to the horizontal. *BG*

PS ..... ISN'T "HERMAPHRODITE" A LOVELY WORD ..... far tooo exotic for a worm

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 10:56 AM

Worms are great fishing bait, too! See SONG CHALLENGE! - part 58 for a lively discussion of worm-bloating and other fish-baiting strangeness.

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 01:54 PM

OK Liz - You have outed me. I promise not to wear my Lambton Worm Outfit at Towersey as a penance. :0) John

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: guinnesschik
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 02:16 PM

And let's not forget the lowly agave worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle.....

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 02:42 PM

when the worm is in the bottle, the booze is usually called Mescal,(sp?) isn't it? [Mescal roulette..pass 'round the bottle, and try NOT to get the last drink!]

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: guinnesschik
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 02:46 PM

I stand corrected. Nasty stuff that leaves you with flashbacks....'swhy I couldn't 'member what it was called.

;-) I'll stick to the Guinness from now on. No worms in it. (new ad campaign)

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 05:46 PM

From Terry Pratchett.... Death in the Mended Drum, contemplating a bottle of Mescal

Death: WHAT'S IT LIKE?

Barman: Well it's OK if you don't drink the worm....

Death: I WAS TALKING TO THE WORM.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Bert
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 03:04 AM

They are hermaphrodite. Each worm is both male and female but they need another to mate.
They lay eggs, small, white and spherical, kinda shiny and translucent and rather pretty really.

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 05:01 PM

And I thought they were snail eggs....

Phoooweee, learn something new everyday here....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: MMario
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:23 PM

I suspect John was talking about worms as in the virus-like "worm" programs - many of which are called "virus" by the general public.

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:45 PM

No. Drunken thoughts are notorious for squirrelling and becoming the most important thing in the universe with no rest or sleep until it's solved. He meant earthworms.

My most annoying drunken question has been why double yellow lines. I mean, why yellow? And why two???

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Bert
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:41 PM

Th Irish say that a single yellow line means "No Parking at all"

And a double yellow line means "No Parking at all, at all"

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:43 PM

1)yellow is one of the most visable colors in the dark, and..

2) to differentiate it from one line, which merely SHOWS you your side of the road

(ohhh...maybe I should drink more..that sounds terribly formal)

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:53 PM

but to show me my side of the road, it should be white.

Why double? Why a single yellow line when everyone ignores them anyway??

Ach, I'm off to bed.... too sober to stay here any longer....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:08 PM

Thanks everybody, Gosh I was drunk when I stated this thread, yes I did mean earthworms.Remind me to stick to coke! john(not jojn) !

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Bert
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:14 PM

Hey Squeaks, Maybe someone's Brother-in-Law bought a job lot of yellow paint.

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: rangeroger
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 02:25 AM

I thought wyrmms (dragons) reproduced with beautful young maidens.

You don't really think they ate them do you?

rr

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Metchosin
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 03:03 AM

aw gee earthworms....too bad....and here I was ready to tell you more than you would ever want to know about microscopic worms called nematodes.....looking at a plate of them could give you the bed spins without the intervening pleasure of embibing.

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 05:47 AM

To clear up any possible confusion, in the UK yellow lines are painted on the side of the road to denote that parking is not allowed. A doub;e yellow line means no stopping at any time.

In the USA the line in the centre of the road (called the median) is painted yellow.

In Britain the median line is painted white.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: BS Worms
From: Burke
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 08:14 PM

Thanks for the information on the double yellow line.

In the US a double yellow down the middle on a 2 lane road means no passing. Broken white means OK to pass. One solid yellow line next to broken white means it's OK to pass if you're on the side with the broken white line, but not if you're on the side with the yellow.

Our curbs are also yellow if no parking is allowed. I think no stopping is just indicated by signs.