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I just got reminded of something a friend told me about back in 9th grade. This would've been in like late 1996. He claimed he went into one of the school bathrooms and the senior football players were playing Soggy Biscuit. If you don't know what that is, I don't recommend Googling it. Needless to say, this was a bit odd. I'm in America. That's the British name. US namw is Ooky Cookie because it's supposed to be a cookie. He said it was actually what someone here would call a biscuit.

Ever since I found about the cookie, I've often wondered what had happened. Did the football players hear the name of the game and not know the linguistic differences? Did my friend make it up entirely after hearing the term and fucked up the description because he didn't know the difference? I don't know.

Anyone else have any weird stories people have told you over the year?

Someone once told me of the lifecycle of the Adactylidium.

Which goes something like this:
A pregnant mite eats a single egg of a thrips (Which itself is a small insect), then the single male of the clutch impregnates all it's sisters (which number 4 to 5), when upon being impregnated in their mother's body, eat their way out of their mother (from the inside out).
Upon leaving their mother's corpse they seek out a thrips, to eat a single egg to continue the cycle of life.

Klaus343 posted...

Someone once told me of the lifecycle of the Adactylidium.

Which goes something like this:
A pregnant mite eats a single egg of a thrips (Which itself is a small insect), then the single male of the clutch impregnates all it's sisters (which number 4 to 5), when upon being impregnated in their mother's body, eat their way out of their mother (from the inside out).
Upon leaving their mother's corpse they seek out a thrips, to eat a single egg to continue the cycle of life.

That would make a great horror movie monster.

It's definitely still soggy biscuit in America.

I don't understand how the egg eating part plays a role
That just sounds like "she has lunch before..."

Klaus343 posted...

Someone once told me of the lifecycle of the Adactylidium.

Which goes something like this:
A pregnant mite eats a single egg of a thrips (Which itself is a small insect), then the single male of the clutch impregnates all it's sisters (which number 4 to 5), when upon being impregnated in their mother's body, eat their way out of their mother (from the inside out).
Upon leaving their mother's corpse they seek out a thrips, to eat a single egg to continue the cycle of life.

So the female mite only has one male baby who's able to get his sisters pregnant before they're born? Why does the mother only eat one thrip egg and what does the egg do?

specialkid8 posted...

It's definitely still soggy biscuit in America.

There was something, I think Robot Chicken, that called it Ooky Cookie in a sketch about college frat games, which was when I realized it was supposed to be that type of biscuit.

LeoRavus posted...

So the female mite only has one male baby who's able to get his sisters pregnant before they're born?

Yes, they're pregnant before they're born. The male in some species dies just after being born, and in other survives for a day or two.

Why does the mother only eat one thrip egg and what does the egg do?

Because that's all she eats, and she lives for maybe 4 or 5 days before the whole process repeats. The egg is all the females can eat, the male doesn't eat anything before dying.