sea slugs so the other day i was staring at nothing in particular apparently quite intently. someone asked what i was thinking about. i blinked. i was thinking about the sex lives of sea slugs. i looked at them. and said, puppies and rainbows. really? of course. you're lying. of course. i think that was a pretty good indicator that they should back off and drop it. but no. they persisted. i half heartedly attempted a few more deflections. but i broke down and told the truth. they blinked. so what about the sex lives of sea slugs? i took a deep breath and began. i don't really know anything factual about the sex lives of sea slugs. other than a headline i read on a certain news aggregator. and then my fancy spread its wings and took flight. anywho. did you know sea slugs have a vagina at one end and a disposable penis at the other? more blinks. it grows back in a few days. which is kinda not unlike how things work for humans. except for the disposable part. presumably sea slugs also have a mouth and an anus. one assumes also at opposite ends. which leads one to ponder which way the sex organs and digestive organs match up. is that a penis on your face, or are you just happy to see me? so presumably two like minded slugs would line up compatible sex organs and get funky. and each one would carry the other's babies. and everyone's happy. course that leaves a nice opportunity to cheat. especially if the mouth and the vagina are co-located. one could fool the other into thinking that one's mouth is one's vagina. and then CHOMP! then one ends up with a snack and the other other ends up making the investment in the offspring. this might explain the disposable penis part. course that's still not what i was actually thinking about. if i was the intelligent designer i might experiment with a universal orifice. it'd triple as mouth, vagina, and anus. it's only gross by human standards. for sea slugs it'd be perfectly normal. and presumably quite sexy. course it makes cheating a whole lot easier. so maybe there were such slugs at one time. but briefly. cause they'd tend to die out. if i was the intelligent designer i'd make it so the payload would automatically be delivered to the appropriate place while masticating the stolen member. so for sea slugs it's not really a use it or lose it thing. it's use it *and* lose it.  ¶ 8:00 AM