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UF_pedal_tones wrote: amendment 1: OLD PEOPLE THAT SUCK AT LIFE

Now you didn't have to go and get personal about it.

You forgot the so-called palmetto bugs (which anywhere else would be called big freakin' monster roaches).

I don't even want to contemplate how my life would be if my wife had to deal with these monsters every day the way we did when I was growing up in Houston. And those were the mild, crawl-on-the-floor kind, not the aggressive blatella kikayooassus smoky-brown roaches that crawl on the ceiling so they can fly down on you when you try to spray them with Bug Death. I had an invasion of them when I lived in Carrollton, Texas for a year and by the time I was done that house glowed brightly on satellite images being used to search for potential Superfund sites. And that was before I was married.

Rick "who can't tolerate the water-ski-sized insects in Florida" Denney

I feel your pain, Rick. I lived in Norfolk, Virginia for 10 years. I have had those things take phone messages for me and I swear they used to order pizzas when I was at work.


Chuck"who can't abide any bug that fights back"Jackson

Rick Denney wrote:You forgot the so-called palmetto bugs

I take it they don't really look like this:

Don't know Florida bugs but here in L.A. (Lower Alabama) the roaches are so big that when you step on one,he crunches so loud you can't hear the T.V..-badabrumpbump

oh you should see the tarantulas and wolf spiders here in the desert! And the zillion-legged poisonous millipedes...and the scorpions!! I've had all the above except the tarantulas, inside the house at one point or another. The wolf spider was in the sink; can't figure how she couldn't get out... I trapped her in some tupperware and put her outside. The scorpions, millipedes, and roaches, I kill. I don't even kill black widows, as long as they don't come inside; they keep the rest of the bugs under control. And tarantulas are just downright cool.

What's a few gigantic roaches compared to the above? (We have not only the gonga-roaches but the Palo Verde beetles, which dive-bomb you at night and crunch like popcorn when you step on them.)

MA

It's interesting... Up here in Jersey for so long it seemed like that was the big goal for so many - retire and move to Florida. People still do it (good friends just a couple of months ago), but I don't hear people talk it up as much over the past few years.

Louis

P.S. New Jersey is humid enough, thank you.