oh no!

Feed me, Seymore!

Oh man, if only they could develop a strain of this plant that eats people who don't use their turn signals...

Wow, that guy is completely farked.

Triffids?!? Yikes!

Surprised this isn't a Cosmiverse post.

I eat flesh.. but no body seems to want me :(

Mythago:

would you want one for eating people that park their cars by the side of the road and block the view of people turning? those guys suck.

happy smoke smoke day everyone.. this bud's for you :-|\)

The trouble with Triffids.......

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED me Seymore!

STAY OFF THE MORES !

Man, you gotta feel sorry for that scientist, though. Forfeit all of his possesions?

A PRICELESS plant that eats slugs has been stolen from a nursery in Austria.
Slugs, idiot...
Eedeot...

Feeeed me Seymore!

Damn you all for beating me to it. Oh well.
*mumble*

My old high school had a giant mural on the wall of the Cafeteria devoted to the Trojan war, and in the corner there were three baby Triffids, and I was the only person in the school who knew what they were.

John Wyndham wrote Day of the Triffids.

Slugs = fat , bloated sacks of protoplasm !

So when do they move to small mammals?

Man, what a letdown. I for one was hoping there was an actual flesh eating plant. Screw slugs, slugs suck.

Ebola, Pt. 2

My cat Magnum ( rest his soul ), would often bring a slug in from the garden and devour it , licking his chops , man that cat was cool ...

Politicians beware!

Jesus Christ, people. It's spelled Seymour.

Sarracenias are beautiful, and normally eat insects. I'm supposing the engineering is toward a slug diet.

Don't add fertilizer!

See, this is why genetic engineering rules. If we could get rid of every goddamned slug on the planet, and the snails, too...damn that would be cool.

Don't hand me any 'ecological balance' crap. Those farkers are too nasty to be allowed to exist.

And I know that if I had her back today
Yeah I know (I know) I know (I know)
Why is it always this way?

OBB: An author named Simon Clark wrote a sequel to "Day of the Triffids" called Night of the Triffids a year or so ago. It got lukewarm reviews, though.

It's just a pitcher plant. Think of a little bucket of water where small animals get trapped and digested. Besides slugs, it should be able to eat mice, small frogs, even tiny birds. It doesn't move or do anything more exciting than just sit there.

Hehe, that pic of Audrey II was a return to the days when that blasted plant scared the hell out of 7 year old me.I used to think it was going to appear in my room at night and come after me.Then again, I was also afraid of the dark back then, so a lot of potential for imaginary creatures to come after me, at least in my head...hehe.

But naturally it was the first thing I thought of when I read that headline.

Slug eating plants...
next they will have grass that strangles gophers that dig underneath it. Then whole gardens that require a tranqulizer pistol and a halberd to harvest with out getting digested...

Sucks for that guy. I hope that he can start working for that company, instead of losing everything.

Oh, that's farkin' great! Another Rick Moranis vehicle.

I was helping to clean-up the Oglethorpe theatre after a performance (I volunteer and get to see Shakespeare) and a sincerely plain girl who was sweeping the stage suddenly broke into "Suddenly Seymor", perfectly. And, I'm still kicking myself, to this day, for not picking-up the Rick Moranis part. For that moment, she was beautiful.

Day of the Triffids is a great book!

Code_Archeologist: Georgia already has something kind of like that - kudzu.

Here is an image of it covering a href="http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad05oct99_1.htm">barn.

Corrected link: barn.

On really hot, humid, still Atlanta nights you can sit in lotus, meditate and watch Kudzu grow. I sh-t you not, it moves.

Nanookanano: And, for the benefit of farkers unaware of kudzu's marvelous ability to grow a foot a day, I will stress that you did not necessarily mean that it only moves when you're under the influence of something.

SpikeStrip: Kudzu is a vine they brought into the deep South originally to control erosion. Unfortunately, the climate and lack of natural enemies provided a perfect environment for the vine to grow. I've seen it literally covering telephone poles, pine trees, abandoned buildings...to the point that you can only see the green shape and nothing of what is beneath it.

Georgians hate the stuff. I once joked to my grandfather he ought to plant more kudzu on his land and he swore a blue streak thinking I was serious.

happy holidays!

Right. Kudzu is the flora equivalant of Godzilla. It was imported from Japan to stop erosion. It has twelve foot roots that end in threads. If you leave a thread, the plant is back where it was in a year. It grows under roads. It grows over houses. They mulched it, hit it with synthetic arsenic, pressed it into particle board . . and it sprouted. Only goats and real hardcore Japanese gourmets will eat the stuff. It laughs at herbicides. It be some scary stuff.