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my grand mother recently told me that her father once showed her and her sister a "magic trick" where he placed two snails on a table in the garden walked a good way away from the table, turned and waved his "magic wand" and the snails promptly exploded! was this a downright fib or was she recounting some disgusting experiment that can be verified? the timing seems to be quite critical. anyone got any ideas how this was achieved?????

sounds like a great party trick

salt?

Hee Hee ( evil cackle )

I would love to know and get sweet revenge on the

slimey sods for eating my large, luscious strawberries!!

Debs

Me to - what a greatly satisfying party trick........ ;)

Wonder if he used sodium carbide that they used to run bicycle lamps on?  I remember my dad telling me when he was a young boy in the 20s it was considered to be entertainment to feed bread laced with this to seagulls. When mixed with water it becomes explosive.  The gulls would take a drink and then....

....nasty way to go.  Small boys can be so cruel. :(

However, I don't have a problem with exploding snails ;D