Types of Slime I've Experienced
By Bob Blanchard


(posted to r.m.h. on July 20, 1999)

I've experienced a lot of different types of slime in my life. There's been:

Dried Egg Yolk Slime
This type of slime occurs when you leave a plate out on the shelf for a few hours. Then you hose it off and think that that yellow glob will just go down the drain. But it doesn't so you smear it around and marvel at how it can cover the whole plate. About that time you realize you have to breakdown and use some soap. I've experienced Dried Egg Yolk Slime.

Sink Trap Slime
This slime gets on you when have to find that ring or contact lense or kid's favorite Lego. You take the trap apart, stick your finger down the pipe and whatever you pull out is covered in hair and dead skin and soap scum and toothpaste spit. You try to wipe it off but all you do is cover your entire hand with a dark gray coating filled with bits of grit. I've experienced Sink Trap Slime.

Bug Slime
This slime occurs when you wipe your windshield with a wet rag and the bugs just smear all over. The slime starts out bug specific but ends up pretty much just bugs in general. A bumblebee slime begins as a uniformly circumferenced puke yellow-orange splat but as you rub it around it merges with the mosquitoes and gnats and turns the whole windshield an attractive grayish white. If you're lucky you can find a bug with it's legs still attached and watch those appendages swirl around and turn into powder in the slime as you wipe. This type of slime is generally not dangerous. I've experienced Bug Slime.

Snot Slime
This can be sticky stuff. You know when you feel something up your nose and you blow your nose so hard that you blow a hole right thru whatever your blowing into and you still feel something up there so you stick your index finger up your nose and pull it out and there's a clump of white stuff stuck on your finger and you try to shake it off but it still sticks? So you flick your finger and that doesn't work so you flick it with your other index finger and now it's stuck to your other finger? So you roll it between two fingers into a little ball that gets coated with finger dirt and then you can flick it off with great precision and aim? Just don't flick onto your windshield! Ay, yi, yi! I've experienced Snot Slime.

Hacking Cough Slime
This can be serious stuff. It usually happens after a night of heavy drinking, heavy smoking, heavy shouting and not remembering. You wake up in the morning and start to talk to someone and all that comes out is a choke. Then you feel this clump about halfway down your esophagus and you start to work on getting it closer to your mouth with a series of hacks, coughs, and gulps. You think it's all the way up and you go to spit it out but you don't realize there's a tendril of slime still connecting the glob in your mouth to your lungs so when you spit the glob catches on your lip and falls onto your chin and is still connected to your lungs. So you suck it back in and work on cutting that tendril while keeping the slime glob in your mouth. I've experienced Hacking Cough Slime.

But by far the worst is SLUG SLIME!
You can't flick it off, wash it off, wipe it off, or rub it off. I've experienced this slime (actually I'm still experiencing it) and first picked it up at MITM. I didn't realize I had it at first and never suspected I would catch it when an individual in the throes of Hacking Cough Slime came up to me soon after my arrival saying he wanted to meet the MooseKiller. If I had only known that it wasn't the Hacking Cough Slime but actually the dreaded Slug Slime that was the cause of his affliction. Life would be better, my glasses wouldn't perpetually be smeared with a Bug Slime look-a-like, my plates would be clean, I could breathe, I wouldn't have a slimed chin in the morning. It's rumored that repeated applications of 90 degree bright sunshine days will provide temporary relief but after the weeks we've had of that here on the Right Side I'm beginning to think it only works for the Left Side.

The Banker BS#57 (damn it, now the farkin keyboard's got slime on it)