Eeeeewwwww

[EagleJCS]

And remember, where you see one, there's at least thirty more you didn't see! :-)

[george7]

Roaches are like mini lobsters. Same family.

[Bugbear]

Roaches are like mini lobsters. Same family.

Yes, I read a Scifi short story a long, long time back where they crossed a roach and a lobster and made giant bugs. They called them roachsters or something like that, and they used them for cars. The only problem was that the roachster cars would flip out after a while and run into the ocean. However, there was a thriving canned lobster meat industrey because of the escaping roachsters...

It could happen.

[CDNSushi]

Yes, I read a Scifi short story a long, long time back where they crossed a roach and a lobster and made giant bugs. They called them roachsters or something like that, and they used them for cars. The only problem was that the roachster cars would flip out after a while and run into the ocean. However, there was a thriving canned lobster meat industrey because of the escaping roachsters...

It could happen.

WOW! What was the author smoking? (and where can I get some)?

[Bugbear]

WOW! What was the author smoking? (and where can I get some)?

It was at least twenty years ago that I read that story, so I have no idea who the author was... Although, it would probably be easy to look up on the internet. At the beginning of the story there was a genetically modifide pig that was used as a garbage disposal which was installed under a sink.

It's sci-fi , man; what do you expect...?

Ok, I looked around on the web a little. It was most likely one of the books of Organic Future by Thomas A. Easton
. I think I read it in 1988 or so.

[Mr. Woolery]

Thank you for a reminder of why Fairbanks winters are not so bad after all. I've never seen a roach in this state. There are rumors that military housing has roaches, but they just don't travel about the town for some wonderful reason.

I've never watched Verminators, but I did once see a trailer for an episode where an exterminator said "my wife asks me all the time why I don't take her out to eat. This is why." And he turns over a drip pan in the restaurant kitchen to show about 15 roaches on the underside. Ick!

-Patrick

[Jack Daw]

Back in the day of apartment living, I accidentally broke the window pane in my backdoor in my apartment. I waited several days for it to get fixed by management. In those few days, a very large family of cockroaches grew into quite a nest inside a cabinet I rarely used until one horrid moment. My house is regularly fumigated, but since that time, I always keep my opened cereal boxes in the fridge whether I need to or not.

[Bugbear]

Out of habbit, I keep any food that could be attacked by bugs in my fridge. I keep the large sacks of rice I live off in the freezer. Won't go into detail as to why I have this habbit...

[LANCER1562]

Next time give it some Army issue field coffee, that stuff will kill anything. Just don't spill it on painted surfaces (including your car). lol

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Oh Alan, you're such a wimp.

I grew up with cockroaches. Such tough bugs. We used to try to freeze them out every winter. All we managed to do was freeze the pipes in the house. The roaches did fine!

Be well,

Star