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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Good Idea: Killing a fruit fry that's buzzing around your salad.

Bad Idea: Killing a fruit fly that's buzzing over your salad.

[Wall Bash]

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Dude, free protein! THere's starving children in Africa that would be gad of a nice fat fruit fly. Eat up!

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

But, but, I'm a vegetarian! I only kill animals that are annoying. And I don't eat them.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

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I only kill animals that are annoying. And I don't eat them.

Well, maybe it wasn't an animal. Maybe it was actually a fruitfly god. You just have to ask yourself "am I the sort of vegetarian who is okay with consuming deities that I've killed?".

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

It's not obvious that flies are really meat, anyway.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

<blink> Define meat.

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Meat.

Om nom nom.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

In that case, meat?

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

!!!

Tears are coming out!

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

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Originally posted by Noemon:
In that case, meat?

My eyes! My eyes! [Eek!]

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

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Originally posted by Lisa:
<blink> Define meat.

Muscle tissue. Insects have quite a different system for moving their limbs.