replacement data.base entry for slime molds

Found while looking for a monster for the (still pending) life patch.
Keni

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 # NetHack 3.5  data.base       $Date$  $Revision$
-#      SCCS Id: @(#)data.base  3.5     2007/04/29
 #      Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
 #      Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
 #      NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
@@ -4532,16 +4531,14 @@ slasher
        On my grave, as now my bed.
                [ Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne ]
 slime mold
-       Slime mold or slime fungus, organism usually classified with
-       the fungi, but showing equal affinity to the protozoa.  Slime
-       molds have complex life cycles with an animal-like motile
-       phase, in which feeding and growth occur, and a plant-like
-       immotile reproductive phase.  The motile phase, commonly
-       found under rotting logs and damp leaves, consists of either
-       solitary amoebalike cells or a brightly colored multinucleate
-       mass of protoplasm called a plasmodium, which creeps about
-       and feeds by amoeboid movement.
-               [ The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia ]
+       Science fiction did not invent the slime molds, but it has
+       borrowed from them in using the idea of sheets of liquid, flowing
+       cytoplasm engulfing and dissolving every living thing they touch.
+       What fiction can only imagine, nature has produced, and only their
+       small size and dependence on coolness, moisture, and darkness has
+       kept the slime molds from ordinary observation, for they are common
+       enough.
+               [ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1977 ]
 sling
        And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and
        drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward