by hilzoy
From Pharyngula, a glorious sentence to be thankful for:
"This video from the BBC of slugs mating is spectacular—it's got mucus ropes, everting male organs, entwining penises, and penises forming a translucent flower-like globe."
Before blogs, I would never, ever have encountered that sentence, and my life would have been the poorer for it. Especially the translucent flower-like globe part.
The video really is spectacular: who knew that mating slugs looked like something by Balanchine? Or that their penises were blue and (apparently) glowing, and emerge from behind their ears? And "translucent flower-like globe" is a much more accurate description than you'd think possible, given what it's a description of. Translucent and blue! Go watch.
That? Is mesmerizing. Who knew slugs looked more graceful than humans while mating? I don't know about any of you, but there haven't been any transluscent, blue, flower-like globes appearing during my...well, you know.
I'm also not that flexible.
Posted by: Opus | November 25, 2005 at 12:44 AM
Opus: I guess that's the price we pay for being vertebrates...
Posted by: hilzoy | November 25, 2005 at 12:48 AM
Bummer. Realplayer does not touch my computer. It is a phobia.
Posted by: bob mcmanus | November 25, 2005 at 01:01 AM
"Especially the translucent flower-like globe part."
Nonsense. Every one of my sweeties has always remarked on this.
(It's twue: I have swug-like qualities.)
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 25, 2005 at 10:35 AM
Every one of my sweeties has always remarked on this.
Really? Blue? I thought it was a figure of speech...
Posted by: liberal japonicus | November 25, 2005 at 11:31 AM
Bob,
There are RealPlayer clones, meant for people such as yourself. I've heard RealAtLast is good, though I haven't seen it in action yet.
Posted by: Toadmonster | November 25, 2005 at 09:29 PM
You Minx!
Posted by: Tewny Blah | November 26, 2005 at 11:17 AM
You Minx!
Posted by: Tewny Blah | November 26, 2005 at 01:31 PM