Comments on Random Access Babble: On My Inability to Love All of God's Creatures

Be careful stepping on them. If you step on mama ...

2010-01-10T06:47:31.171-05:00

Be careful stepping on them.

If you step on mama cockroach, full to bursting with fertilized little cockroach eggs, her dying act will be to bequeath your shoe the power to infest every place you step with multiple generations of buuuuuuuug muuuuuuuuuusic.

Thank you for that delightful visual. Having to ge...

2007-08-28T07:29:54.172-04:00

Thank you for that delightful visual. Having to get up at I dark thirty this morning I needed that smile to face the world.

While waterbugs are cockroaches, I think the disti...

2007-08-28T00:35:54.662-04:00

While waterbugs are cockroaches, I think the distinction must be made, because, due to my own common knowledge and of course the wikipedia article previously referenced, they are not German Cockraches which are the gross, infest-y, don't want them in your kitchen kind of cockroaches. They're more the big-scary-painintheass kind that appear occasionally and are gross, but not nearly as gross as the oh-my-god-there-are-probably-five-million-more-of-these-in-my-kitchen type.

Okay, this has me seriously worried about your san...

2007-08-27T18:46:07.964-04:00

Okay, this has me seriously worried about your sanity while we are visiting tropical Costa Rica where they cannot blame central heating for the presence of bugs the size of small Volkswagens. It is a good thing your bunk mate happens to have fairly little fear of bugs and thus will be able to execute her manly duties even without a penis. Warning though, I don't like crushing them and thus will have to transport to safety in most cases (except mosquitoes, die suckers die), and I cannot promise the same manliness when it comes to the nasty black scorpions....

This is one big-ass bug that lives in California. ...

2007-08-27T18:12:23.690-04:00

This is one big-ass bug that lives in California. But, I guess, since it rarely ventures indoors and moves quite slowly (but is no less disgusting, I wager), you don't consider it on par with the palmetto bug. Also, I think they favor a moister climate than Bishop typically offers.

I remember the first time I saw a real live cockroach, after I moved to North Carolina from a lifetime (more or less) in bug-free Colorado. I lifted the toilet lid while still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, only to discover one of those nasty things doing a backstroke around the bowl.

I screamed like a baby and ran out of the bathroom before i realized all I had to do was flush the horrid beastie down the sewers (which I did, reluctantly, for the water in a toilet bowl is a highly efficient bug cootie conductor, gender roles notwithstanding).

First Post!!11!one!!

2007-08-27T16:42:24.819-04:00

First Post!!11!one!!