email I just received

[Moracai]

I just received the strangest email. Did anyone else get one of these?

Hello!

I just came across the website on petsnails.co.uk, and I noticed you have 3 pet snails of Lignus intertinctus. I am doing a PhD at the University of Nottingham, and part of my work involves doing an evolutionary tree of the Achatinid snails. We routinely do DNA work and sequencing from tissue slices of different snails, I was wondering if you can provide me with a small slice from any of your Lignus pets. What we do is we cut a small piece from the tail of the foot of the snail and put the slice in ethanol. In this way we don't harm or kill the snail, and they usually grow back in no time at all the tissue that has been cut off. I shall be more than happy to provide you with a sterile scalpel blade and a small screw-capped tube containing ethanol where you can put the tissue slice. Please let me know if this is alright with you.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Fontanilla
Institute of Genetics
Queen's Medical Centre
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2UH

[(¯`·._.·[Samm]·._.·´¯)]

Not me an uh....Please dont say your going to do it

It looks convincing, it may well be genuine... but poor snails:(

-Samm

[anjieburdett]

Yes, I'm doing a PhD too, can i have a slice of your cat LMAO!!

Sorry, but i am soo bored i could actually go and do my ironing!! But, luckily, reading up on here seemed far more inviting ;D I couldn't believe what i was reading so had to reply. Cutting a slice off of your pet just seems EAUURGHHHHHHHH

Anjie,x.

[(¯`·._.·[Samm]·._.·´¯)]

Can i have a slice of your pig and sheep.. wait.. YE CAN I ? PLEASE PELASE? CAN I?l ol

Serious side - Who could do it? I wouldnt be able to do... i would feel guilty


Also; www.petsnails.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&n=1&thread=2389

[felix93]

[LisaLQ]

PMSL, it sounds serious but who in their right mind would ask someone who kept snails as pets, to take a chunk off their back end?

Hey - maybe that's where Dave's tail went? *shrugs*

[Moracai]

My first reaction was someone was taking the p***, but it could be legit. But the thought of taking a slice off of one of my beloved snails...
same as asking for a slice off one of my children!
Guess he figured if you don't ask, you don't get.

[mandywith11]

well he aint getting my snails
ill consider a few slices off kids tounges though (they off on one lately and they are LOUD!!!!!)
only kidding

[(¯`·._.·[Samm]·._.·´¯)]

Buy some rawr Ox toung, cook it.. cut a bit of, and send him that, lmao
It'll look somthing like it

[Leah]

I'll give you a slice of my labrador if you like...pmsl. What would he say if someone asked for one of his toes to do testing on?

[(¯`·._.·[Samm]·._.·´¯)]

Omg, leah thts an awsome idea.

Moracai - Reply, asking for his toes, say your studying human DNA, lmao

-Samm

[Leah]

pmsl.

[Jess *Trumpton GALS*]

i totally agree with leah on this one!!! make it his big toe! pmsl

[Moracai]

LOL, very tempting