A slug is a peculiar creature. They are nature's ultimate slackers. When people are slow to get out of bed they are "sluggish". It is still a mystery to me where the term "slugging" comes from in reference to punching someone like Lucy threatened to do to Snoopy in the Peanuts' Christmas Special. (As a kid I didn't get it. After Snoopy was impersonating animals and then impersonating Lucy, he never once acted like a slug and punching a cartoon dog in uncharacteristic of slugs as well. Even back then, I was interested in the etymology of terms like this. I guess I was doomed to be an English major.)
Slugs always had a negative connatation in my mind. That is probably because they are mostly around when it is damp and rainy out and there are mosquitos around as well. I don't really have anything against them, though. They are really just homeless snails. Maybe the governments in snail societies should have more public programs to get slugs employed and have them find affordable shells with reasonable mortgage plans. They should also pass legislation to reduce the salting of roads in the winter to further protect those on the streets. If snails had an economic plan similar to FDR's New Deal, and Snail War II eventually got them out of the sluggish depression, then that would be really awesome.
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