Snails, Slugs, Hedgehogs etc.

[Franz Heymann]

How do you do that?

[snip]

Franz

[Christopher Green]

Not kosher. Treyf. An abomination. Not acceptable as food to observant Jews. (Lev. 11:42, "You shall not eat... anything that crawls on its belly...")

[Franz Heymann]

observant

But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws.

Franz

[Ray Drouillard]

They are not outdated to the Jews..

Ray Drouillard

[Franz Heymann]

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"Stan

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garden.

I did not say they were. The poster did not mention that they were unclean *as far as Jews were concerned*. He made it sound much more general.

Franz

[Mike Lyle]

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I remember a boss saying of a (highly-esteemed, I should say) colleague "For somebody who can't work on Friday evenings, he eats an awful lot of sausages." A Jewish girlfriend whose sister suddenly started keeping Kosher and everything referred to the unexpected transformation as "going Catholic".

Mike.

[Mike Lyle]

paghat wrote: [...]

We did actually know that: I think you've mistaken us for one of those dimwit crossposting newsgroups. Be discerning, and don't be misled by some of the headers the freaks add this group to.

[Janet Baraclough..]

The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

Your mistake Franz. Christopher said exactly that, in the post you quoted above: "Not kosher...not acceptable as food to observant Jews".

Janet.

[Janet Baraclough..]

The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

What reply?

Janet.

[Christopher Green]

That is why I wrote "to observant Jews".

[Ray Drouillard]

[rolls eyes]

I make a flippant remark about slugs being unclean, and end up reading part of a long diatribe that seems to have little point.

Ray Drouillard

[St. George]

Ray,

I am the originator of this string (what role does the snail and/or slug have in the garden) and am amazzzzzzzzzzzzzed at all the nonsense replies.

Have a Good Day

LenBo

[St. George]

Dear Mr. David Hill,

Are you being pedantic and does it matter ?

Do you have any input on the subject in question instead of acting like a silly five year old ?

Happpppppppppppppppppy Everythings,

LenBo.

P.S. I am new to all three of the Newsgroups.

[Franz Heymann]

{:-))

Franz

[Franz Heymann]

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"Stan

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Indeed, After I had commented originally.

Franz

[Claire Petersky]

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[remainer snipped for decency]

My, my, such language!

Dear Mr. Newton, please do not be so vulgar in these newsgroups. While you may regard the gardening newsgroups perhaps as a locker room, there are others who regard it as a tea party, and find your shouting, nasty derogatory terms, and scatalogical slang to be unpleasant and disruptive.

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist:

page: the books I've set free at:

[Franz Heymann]

Are you really so unfamiliar with the phenomenon of thread drift?

Franz

[Charles Newton]

Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food. Get some ducks or chickens if you want to control them organically. They also hate copper and will not cross a strip of copper, so you can wrap copper foil around the stems of affected plants and they will not crawl past that. Go out in the morning and pick them off by hand. Look for their hiding places (under rocks and boards); they will not be very far from the plants. Reduce the number of hiding places. Use slug and snail bait where needed. Got to reduce their populations. - Thanks, C.

[Charles Newton]

Soory Claire, I blew my stack a little bit. I apologize. - C.

[hippy gardener]

But you do have entertainment value....