h a l f b a k e r yContrary to popular belief
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With a nutritious film added, an average bathroom
mirror should be able to support one or two snails.
They would be trained to race about when the mirror
is steamy, clearing off the water vapor.
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//snails... race about//
Umm...? |
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Their slime would distort the mirror image even if the nutritious [sp.] film did not. Maybe they should have squeegies dragging after them like little reverse snow ploughs to clean up the snail goo. |
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I think you should genetically engineer snails to produce slime that works like those windshield defogger chemicals |
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Oh, my! Have a battery-powered electronic snail instead just to clear out the slime and nutritious film issue... |
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[marked-for-tagline]Have a battery-powered electronic snail |
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Baked! With a little garlic butter. [link] |
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...but where would they sleep? |
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Maybe something to eat the slime as well? The bathroom window could have a layer of algae on it as food for the window snails. |
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Extending [nineteenthly]'s line of thought, perhaps we can engineer dust-eating snails to keep our houses clean? Or create perhaps an entire ecology for our own convenience? It'd be like living in a little jungle! That'd be splendid! |
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We had some apple snails that got around the aquarium at an unusal pace. |
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All the same, I'm guessing you'll need a very large snail, or a very small mirror to make this work successfully... |
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and if my apple snail is any indication, you'll want some netting underneath so they don't jump off and die. |
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Once the mirror was thoroughly slimed, I
bet it would be steamproof. |
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A better solution from MaxCo. |
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Tired of slimy bathroom mirrors? Slimy
bathroom mirror woes begone!! |
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Our patented MaxiMagnetSnails have
powerful neodumium magnets
permanently bonded to their shells.
Simply seal 3 or 4 MaxiMagnetSnails in
the recess behind your mirror, along
with 100-200 grams of
MaxiMagnetSnailFood. Next, place 3 or
4 of our decorative magnetic cleaning
pads on the face of the mirror. |
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Viola! The cleaning pads will glide
magically and majestically across the
face of your mirror, following the
meanderings of the snails behind
(please note lack of apostrophe). |
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//(please note lack of apostrophe)// |
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lack'o'grammar too, methinks. How can you follow something that's behind you ? |
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...the snails.... behind....the mirror. |
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Instead of plain sailing, could this variation
on the idea be described as snail planing? |
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I don't know, but I can see sanity paling. |
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To wipe our mirrors clean, we'll just have to s/nail (sink a nail) to the wall and install a car wiper, wiping off your creepy snails too. |
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