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I don't think the Babel fish helps with understanding Vogon poetry as nothing does that! :o

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits

On a lurgid bee

That mordiously hath bitled out

Its earted jurtles

Into a rancid festering [drowned out by moaning and screaming]

Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles

Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts

And living glupules frart and slipulate

Like jowling meated liverslime

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes

And hooptiously drangle me

With crinkly bindlewurdles,

Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon

See if I don't.

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we found a couple of fairly big blue ones when digging out an old garden a few months ago, anyone want to hazard a guess at what type they were? Didn't get photos sadly but they were blue and about 10cm.

If you don't know what a babel fish is you don't know what you're missing :)

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The Babel Fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst travelling in space. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only 'Eurgh!' when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry - not necessarily a good thing. The book points out that the Babel Fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore proves the existence of God as its creator. However, as Man points out, God needs faith to exist, and this proof dispels the need for faith, therefore causing God to vanish "in a puff of logic".

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Wow that's a stunning centipede! I wish we got that sort of thing around here but I've certainly never met one.

I do, however, own a plot of land which contains (among other weird and wonderful beings) some giant native carnivorous snails. I betcha one of my snails would despatch your centipede very promptly! :lol:

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we found a couple of fairly big blue ones when digging out an old garden a few months ago, anyone want to hazard a guess at what type they were? Didn't get photos sadly but they were blue and about 10cm.

If you don't know what a babel fish is you don't know what you're missing :)

sounds like possibly Peripatus, which are really cool. They are kind of living fossils. There's an article about them on this page http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/onychophora.php but the pics aren't very blue, I've seen really blue ones, depends on what part of the country you are in

This is the bluest type:

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cool huh? Image from http://www.rodmorris.co.nz/insect_gallery1.htm by Rod Morris

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wow check this one out

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1008/127 ... b3b993.jpg

I found this "The Lithobiomorpha are shorter and more compact centipedes and are very active. Adult Lithobiomorpha range in size from 0.5 cm to over 3 cm....Occasionally one finds beautiful violet individuals – these are freshly moulted Lithobius centipedes, which become reddish-purple when hardened."

so maybe thats what ours were, but they were much longer than 3cm. Fascinating creatures, i would have loved to have kept one but i have no idea how to look after centipedes lol.

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sounds like possibly Peripatus, which are really cool. They are kind of living fossils. There's an article about them on this page http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/onychophora.php but the pics aren't very blue, I've seen really blue ones, depends on what part of the country you are in

This is the bluest type:

gallery10.jpg

cool huh? Image from http://www.rodmorris.co.nz/insect_gallery1.htm by Rod Morris

OMG that actually looks like something that came out of a space movie or something... kinda looks aquatic as well >.< wonder what would happen if a giant centipede met one of those.

Btw there are carnivorous snails?!?!?!?!? how the heck do they chase down their prey?

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I don't have any pics of the snails that live at my place, but here's a DoC article with some pics & a bit of info:

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/nat ... ail/facts/

They aren't slimey like a garden snail - their body is black and kind of leathery and their shell is very beautiful.

I still think my snails would give your worms/centipedes/space aliens a run for their money.

*sets up a wrestling ring*

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