11 Comments

1. 

   Eww, can’t say I would want to watch a slugfest like that! (Not that I really enjoy a conventional-meaning slugfest either.)

2. 

   Anyone have an idea what that last word before “never mind” in the dialog balloon (starting with “re…”) was supposed to be?

   P.S. The link below the comic that is supposed to link to the Comics Curmudgeon article goes instead to the quote from Clue.

3. 

   Slugs are more prone to stabbing each other than boxing.

   Also, it’s foreplay.

   No, really.

   https://zephr.newscientist.com/article/dn24568-zoologger-sea-slugs-stab-partners-in-head-during-sex/

4. 

   Kilby: I assumed it was just “really”, as in “didn’t really make it clear”.

5. 

   Thanks for the correction on the Curmudgeon link. It has now also been corrected in the post. (It was meant more as acknowledging priority than as providing substantial additional info that readers could use.)

6. 

   Carl Fink,

   Thanks for the info. I was looking at two slugs with no arms and wondering just how a slug slug-fest would work. 

   And I really wish operating theaters still existed. I’d love to watch a surgery

7. 

   @ Chak (6) – I am sure that would be prohibitively expensive to maintain an old-style operating theater while still maintaining modern standards for sterility and security. For practical instruction purposes, it would be much easier to install a webcam on the ceiling of a modern operating room. Even then, privacy concerns would make it virtually impossible for “outsiders” to get access to the recordings.

   P.S. The embedded link indicates that the term is still in widespread use, even if it is usually is a misnomer.

8. 

   I wouldn’t want to watch an operation live. It was traumatizing enough to flip through the cable channels in the 1980s or 1990s to come to a closeup of an operation in progress.

9. 

   Yeah, I know what you mean. That being said, there was a lot of cool programming back in those days. At one time there was a NASA channel that was showing the video sent by Voyager 2 all the time.

10. 

    I also thought the “RE” was the start of “really”

11. 

    I hate to admit it – but long ago Robert and I reached the point where we can finish each other sentences. Sometimes he will even tell a story about his past and I have to remind that what he said happened to me (before I knew him) not to him!

    (How long? 45th wedding anniversary later this year and we dated for 4 years and then were engaged for 2 years before married and knew each other 2 years before we got together.)