_@/ "Sousa Pa!"

[littletune]

Thal, don't you think Alistair will now stop posting in this thread cause you said that? Just like then when you said it was lovely... 
Well if he will never post here again I think the snails will miss him!  Even though he wasn't very nice to them....... but anyway... 
 

[ahinton]

Amusing exchanges indeed.

Nice to see hinty coming out of his shell.

Nice that you consider yourself to have been amused.

Shells are all very well but when you compose you have to come out of them to some extent. When, on the other hand, you post in thread such as this one...

Best,

Alistair

[littletune]

Nice that you consider yourself to have been amused.

Shells are all very well but when you compose you have to come out of them to some extent. When, on the other hand, you post in thread such as this one...

Best,

Alistair

  Alistair! are you really a snail?! I mean if you have to come out of your shell... don't worry you can tell us!  We will still like you just the same!     
(just kidding of course no need to explain the expression "coming out of one's shell"      )

Best,

[lostinidlewonder]

                       .    |     .     
                        \   |    /     
                    `.   \  '   /   .' 
                      `. .-*""*-. .'   
                  "*-._ /.*"  "*.\ _.-*"
                       : <o>  <o> ; ____
                  """"':    ..    ;     
                  _.-*" \ `.__.' / "*-._
                      .' `-.__.-' `.   
                     .'   /   .  \   `. 
                        /    |   \     
                       '     |    `     

                                                  
 ..-----.----..,___.--,--'`,---..-.--+--.,,-,,..._.--..-._.-
                                                  
     /^\    /^\   /                              
    {  O}  {  O} /                                
     \ /    \ /                                  
     //     //       _------_                    
    //     //     ./~        ~-_                  
   / ~----~/     /              \                
 /         :   ./       _---_    ~-              
|  \________) :       /~     ~\   |              
|        /    |      |  :~~\  |   |              
|       |     |      |  \___-~    |              
|        \ __/`\______\.        ./                
 \                     ~-______-~\.              
 .|                                ~-_            
/_____________________________________  it is a wonderful day to come out of your shell.

[lostinidlewonder]

             __,aaPPPPPPPPaa,__
         ,adP"""'                 `""Yb,_
      ,adP'                          `"Yb,
    ,dP'     ,aadPP"""""YYba,_      `"Y,
   ,P'    ,aP"'              `  ""Ya,      "Y,
  ,P'    aP'     _________     `"Ya    `Yb,
 ,P'    d"    ,adP""""""""Yba,       `Y,    "Y,
,d'   ,d'   ,dP"            `Yb,      `Y,    `Y,
d'   ,d'   ,d'    ,dP""Yb,    `Y,     `Y,    `b
8    d'    d'   ,d"      "b,    `Y,      `8,    Y,
8    8     8    d'    _   `Y,    `8    `8    `b
8    8     8    8     8     `8     8     8     8
8    Y,    Y,   `b, ,aP      P    8    ,P     8
I,   `Y,   `Ya    """"       d'   ,P    d"    ,P
`Y,   `8,    `Ya          ,8"   ,P'   ,P'    d'
 `Y,   `Ya,    `Ya,,__,,d"'   ,P'   ,P"    ,P
  `Y,    `Ya,     `""""'       ,P'   ,d"    ,P'
   `Yb,    `"Ya,_          ,d"    ,P'    ,P'
     `Yb,      ""YbaaaaaadP"     ,P'   ,P'
       `Yba,                   ,d'    ,dP'
          `"Yba,__       __,adP"     dP"
              `"""""""""""""'

empty shell

[littletune]

                       .    |     .     
                        \   |    /     
                    `.   \  '   /   .' 
                      `. .-*""*-. .'   
                  "*-._ /.*"  "*.\ _.-*"
                       : <o>  <o> ; ____
                  """"':    ..    ;     
                  _.-*" \ `.__.' / "*-._
                      .' `-.__.-' `.   
                     .'   /   .  \   `. 
                        /    |   \     
                       '     |    `     

                                                  
 ..-----.----..,___.--,--'`,---..-.--+--.,,-,,..._.--..-._.-
                                                  
     /^\    /^\   /                              
    {  O}  {  O} /                                
     \ /    \ /                                  
     //     //       _------_                    
    //     //     ./~        ~-_                  
   / ~----~/     /              \                
 /         :   ./       _---_    ~-              
|  \________) :       /~     ~\   |              
|        /    |      |  :~~\  |   |              
|       |     |      |  \___-~    |              
|        \ __/`\______\.        ./                
 \                     ~-______-~\.              
 .|                                ~-_            
/_____________________________________  it is a wonderful day to come out of your shell.

  Is that Alistnairl ?     

[Bob]

                    |--- |           |--- |
                    |  0  |  \@_   |  0 |
                    |___|           |___|

This is going to be like the magic 8 ball....

*Bob puts two messages on each side of the snail.  The one of the left -- the left as we view the snail, not the snail's left -- says "This week."  The messages on the right says "after this week."  Bob places some snail food (which is what?  What do snails eat?)  out for the snail and waits.*

I think I got that right.

Oops...  *Bob splits the snail food in half and puts a half on each side of the snail and then waits again.*  Knowing the snail, it'll eat eat both.    Why not?  But then what does that mean?  It doesn't answer my question.

This must be an oracle snail.

*Bob gets nauesous after Google image searching for oracle snail.*  Yuck.  And there was a snail, a real snail, as big as a person's hand. 

Good work snail.   *Bob gives the snail extra food.*   Keep it up.  There's more extra food where that came from.


I did find the largest snail around today is the AFrican giant snail.  It's about the size of a hand, or palm-sized.  However, those big conch fhell can be from ancient snails, some of which could have b een 40 pounds.  A forty pound snail?     And there's a Guiness world record for the most snails on a face.  I didn't look into that.

Bad work snail.    *Bob pats the snail until it pukes the food back up and reposseses that food.*

[littletune]

Bad work snail.    *Bob pats the snail until it pukes the food back up and reposseses that food.*

Yuck Bob! That sounds kinda disgusting! Do you think that's really necessary to do? 
Maybe the snail didn't answer your question wrong, maybe you just asked it the wrong way 

[Bob]

The snail didn't really answer the question either.

[littletune]

But if the snail ate the food it must have answered something! 

[littletune]

                         ° °  °   °  °
                       _|_|_|__|_|_
  _@/  _@/       (                  )      \@_           \@_  \@_ \@_

A snail is celebrating it's birthday    it got a birthday cake and everything! 

[Bob]

A strange creature appears at the snail party...

                     

                        °  °  °   °  °     "I will now eat all the cake... which looks
                       _|_|_|__|_|_       /                remarkably like me."
                      (    /\/\/\/\    )




\@_      Stoic snail.




\@_       SuperSnail.   He has an S symbol on his chest (or maybe an SS?) but you can't
                                see that from the profile view like this).
Here's the official SuperSnail theme song. 

*Bobs wonders if it's also a Jewish snail.    ... Or maybe not a full Jew snail, but rather sort of Jew-like, more like a Jew-ish snail.*
 

[littletune]

I know why that strange creature looks remarkably like a cake  it's because that's a cake eating monster! It appears at your birthday party and if you're not careful it eats all your cake while you're not looking!    and it looks like a cake so that it's harder for you to notice it! 

What should a cake for a snail be made of? Herbs? A herb cake  oh I guess it could also be an apple cake or a carrot cake      I got hungry thinking about this 

[Bob]

Yes, and the cake monsters eats the birthday cake in just one bite.  Slinks over, opens his mouth, slides the whole cake in, belches, then slinks away again.

[littletune]

        ° °  °   °  °                        °  °  °   °  °     
      _|_|_|__|_|_                      _|_|_|__|_|_   
     (                   )                   (    /\/\/\/\    )         - the cake and the cake monster



                       

                                  °  °  °   °  °
                                 _|_|_|__|_|_   
                            ((((    /\/\/\/\     )))))          - the cake monster with a cake in his mouth
 

             ... but does the cake monster then eat a whole cake with candles still on it?!


                       ,° °,
                         ^@_           

ohhhh nooooooooo! the birthday snail is now crying!!!    because the birthday cake just disappeared!!!! we have to make another one fast! Don't worry little snail! you'll get another cake! and it will be a giant cake! so that not even a cake monster can eat it in just one bite! And I think cake monster had enough for today anyway!
                          °  ° °  °  °
                         _|_|_|_|_|_
                        (                 )     
                      (  happy           )
                    (    birthday          )
                  (      little                 )
                (        snail!!                 )
              (                                     )                 o|o
            (                                         )                 ˘ @_

[liordavid]

               
                 
              ..............
oooooooo        <>           
oooooooo         MvM
oooooooo__________/
King of the snails (ok was that my worst)

[liordavid]

hey this looks like a shoe. I wish this was a shoe thread

[Bob]

Snail wearing shoes.

    \@_
_@/ \@_


More like, Snail wearing shoes?

[birba]

To me, it looks like a human snail with snail shoes.

[Bob]

He must have big feet.

[littletune]

Well maybe he has normal shoes but the two snails climbed  onto his feet to get a free ride  I mean snails are not very fast and they need a long time to get somewhere  and maybe they were in a hurry so that human snail gave them a lift

[Bob]

                                     \@_ "I am a willful snail and won't allow Bob to position me on top of the pryamid.  "
                                                                  _@/ \@_
                                                            _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                                                      _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
                                                 _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
                                           _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
                                     _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_

              
                                             \@_
                                            _@/ \@_
                                      _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                                _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
                           _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
                     _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
               _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_



                                 \@_
                             _@/ \@_
                       _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                 _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
            _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
      _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_


Egyptian snails.  Like the ones you typically find out in the hot, dry, sandy deserts.     (That's cool.  There's kind of a 3D effect if you see the spot where the snail / parts are as a line separating two sides of the pyramid.

  

   ?
    \@_

Attempt at a pharaoh snail.  That's a headdress thing.

[birba]

Well maybe he has normal shoes but the two snails climbed  onto his feet to get a free ride  I mean snails are not very fast and they need a long time to get somewhere  and maybe they were in a hurry so that human snail gave them a lift

That's exactly how I see it, Littletune!!!

[birba]

                                    \@_ "I am a willful snail and won't allow Bob to position me on top of the pryamid.  "
                                                                  _@/ \@_
                                                            _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                                                      _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
                                                 _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
                                           _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
                                     _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_

              
                                             \@_
                                            _@/ \@_
                                      _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                                _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
                           _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
                     _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
               _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_



                                 \@_
                             _@/ \@_
                       _@/_@/ \@_\@_
                 _@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_
            _@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_
      _@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_
_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/_@/ \@_\@_\@_\@_\@_\@_


Egyptian snails.  Like the ones you typically find out in the hot, dry, sandy deserts.     (That's cool.  There's kind of a 3D effect if you see the spot where the snail / parts are as a line separating two sides of the pyramid

O M G  YES!!!!!!  You have to like overlap with your eyes two adjacent snails and wait for the ride to begin!!!!   O M G!

[Bob]

  ((_@/ ))     ((  \@_ ))


Mambo snails.




       Snail, mamboing by itself.  (or mambooing?)

Tap the down arrow key with the beat of the music to see him dance.

((  \@_ ))


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[Bob]

(Someone is easily amused.)  











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                                                ((  \@_ ))   ((_@/ ))   "Hey Mambo!"

                                                
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            ((  \@_ ))   ((_@/ ))                                            (   (    )=iii-\@_
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                                       Snail mambo trumpet section. -->    (    (       )=iii-\@_
                 


  ((_@/ )) "Actually, the name's Fred.  Not Mambo."   ((  \@_ ))

[Bob]

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Carmen Miranda snail.






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Bugs Bunny snail.

[birba]

 Bob je a veleum.   

[Bob]

Ah, hvala.  Polž veleum.

[littletune]

Those dancing snails are cool!    
Birba did you start learning Slovenian too??
I wanted to post something in this thread for a really long time....   but then I never had enough time   because I always need a lot of time for this    

Ah, hvala.  Polž veleum.

Veleum Bob!   although the word "veleum" is kinda funny. I mean it's not used very often, people usually just say "genij"

[birba]

Those dancing snails are cool!   
Birba did you start learning Slovenian too??
I wanted to post something in this thread for a really long time....  but then I never had enough time

Because you're always teaching Bob Slovenian. 

[littletune]

Well I like teaching Bob Slovenian!    I will find some time for the snails too 

[orangesodaking]

This is my university's world famous choir, the Cardinal Singers.

And in parts of the song they chant "Mambo", lol.

[birba]

My god, what a choir!!!!

[orangesodaking]

My god, what a choir!!!!

Yeah, they're crazy amazing! I feel like a snail compared to them...

_@/

See? That's a snail.

[Bob]

*Bob admires that snail.*

[littletune]

         ..     °°   oo         OO          00   OO
     _@|  _@|     |@_       |@_   _@|      |@_

these snails are admiring that snail too

[birba]

Littletune!  That was absolutely hysterical!  A pince-nez!   

[littletune]

                                        /    /              \    \
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           __@__@_@_/    /                   _@_@_@___|    \
           \_____________/                    \_____________/


so this is snail transportation  I mean it's human transportation for snails 


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      - Oh look a human is coming!
_@/     \@_  - Oh no but it's so crowded already! I think we better wait for the next one!

[Bob]

Haha.

[Bob]

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*Bob is wondering how the heck a snail could even attempt to play a double bass.    [Yes, that's supposed to be a bass.  I'm tired.]*

[birba]

Where?!  This is far beyond my reach...

[littletune]

 
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*Bob is wondering how the heck a snail could even attempt to play a double bass.    [Yes, that's supposed to be a bass.  I'm tired.]*

This is a double bass right?
Double bass is really cool!!!   

[Bob]

Yeah.  I was trying to make a smaller one.  I made one but it started getting too big so I knocked it down to that and gave up.

[Bob]

         (                 (               (            _@/


A lone snail, worried, hurrying along in the wilderness....

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... which is apparently in Australia.  Though if he's a snail, he might have something to fear here.

[littletune]

                Two snails playing cello.   



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                         (  )
                        (    )___   
                          |       \@_

Well maybe this cello kinda looks like a snowman too    

[Bob]

\@_    \@_
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  /        /

Return of the tiny iceskaters.

[elspeth]

@/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/ @/

The twelve snails of Christmas...

[thalbergmad]

That will probably be the Christmas dinner for one of us here.

Thal

[littletune]

That will probably be the Christmas dinner for one of us here.

Thal

No Thal no! We have talked about that sooo many times already!  You just can't eat these snails!!

                                     _@0/0