IrresistibleB1tch said:

I wondered why Dave has six legs.....






has/had edit....
[Edited 11/26/06 14:24pm]

fathermcmeekle said:

don't let him fool you - he only has 3. which is impressive in and of itself...

IrresistibleB1tch said:

You might be right. He never falls over on uneven surfaces.

fathermcmeekle said:

what's his phone number again...

minneapolisgenius said:

O
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G
!!!!!

I told my roommate about all this and we were so distraught we made a sign for our door:



We thought it was funny.

Our other roommate thought it was extremely disturbing. Probably because it's TRUE.
[Edited 11/26/06 22:22pm]

FruitToAttractBears said:

Ahh, memories. Those fuckers used to be all up in my apartment in Chicago. I think they lived in the ivy that grew on the outside of the building & around the windows. I hated them. Here's what you do: go to the hardware store and buy some chemical spray for centipedes. When you see 'em spray just enought to get them to run back to their nest where they'll die. Once it dies, the others will cannibalize it and ingest the poison too. (That's what the guy at the hardware store told me.) I never followed that train of thought though--I would just spray 'em until their legs all fell off and they shriveled up into a ball. Then flush! (Or industrial strength hair spray might slow it down enough for you to smash it.)

I really hated them b/c they would always be up in the corners by the windows (I had high ceilings) and when I'd come home at night & turn on the lights--surprise! And OMG, my boyfriend hated them worse than me. He'd jump and scream like a damn girl when one would run across the floor. I always had to be the one to kill them.

BUT I console(d) myself by remembering that centipedes like to live in damp places (e.g. ivy, plants) not like roaches that you get from not keeping a clean apartment. Not that I want either, but I would rather have centipedes any day over roaches...

JustErin said:

I know.

AsianBomb777 said:

meet Knut!

AsianBomb777 said:

wtfffff are those ugly roach looking things.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Awesome!

ZombieKitten said:

"Knut"!

ZombieKitten said:

Ok, that's.....pretty creepy. And I like spiders.

I refuse to say what insect gives me the creeps. The last time I told someone they rounded up a bunch of them and threw them at me. I have been in therapy ever since.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

That is wrong on so many levels. My guess is it would have to be a crawling insect. I just can't see how you could round up a bunch of flying insects, especially since so many bite or sting.

AsianBomb777 said:

Okay, I'll fess up. Crickets. I hate crickets, or locusts or grasshopers (oh my!) I was 13 and I went to Mexico with my dad. The kids in this little ranch found out about my fear. One came up to me, made a fist and said "Here, look." I was like "Oh what is it." The next thing, picture a 6 year old girl running off screaming into the night.

While I was running the rest of the kids were running after me and I could feel something hitting my back. YES, they were throwing them at me.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I have no real fear of crickets. I mean, they're gross looking I guess. But they don't invoke the same kind of horror in me as Praying Mantises do.

This thread kind of sucks now. Instead of talking about the insects we do like, it's just turned into one big creep fest.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

oh man, i had that same phobia for many years...

my mother was picking strawberries one day, and called me over - "i've got something for you!". i must have been around 4 or 5. i thought for sure she had a nice big strawberry for me, but a cricket jumped out - freaked me the hell out...

it took me until about a year or two ago to get over this.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

every spider we found like this in our house my dad would name Knut!

JustErin said:

OMG, those scare the shit out of me! And their bite is as potent as a bee sting. Yuck!

FruitToAttractBears said:

That's just not right.

GangstaFam said:

I came back today and someone had stuck post-it notes over it.

FruitToAttractBears said:

At least they didn't rip it down. I probably would have!

FruitToAttractBears said:

I had no idea they bite too!

I have only seen them in one place I used to live in (thank God) and I am not usually a bug killer but I have to admit that the couple of times I saw one, I smashed the living fuck out of it.

JustErin said:

I've found them on 4 separate occasions in my mom's bathtub. They can't climb out, so I'm afraid they came up through the drain!

Fortunately, they were easy to catch in a glass that way and I quickly escorted them outside.

GangstaFam said:

I remember we caught one at school in a Gatorade bottle. There was still some left so it got all limp and soggy and red...and missing half its legs...we were all just crowded around going "WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!"
[Edited 11/27/06 20:28pm]

AsianBomb777 said:

I ladybugs. Recently when I stayed in a hotel in Ashville, North Carolina, there was a ladybug crawling around on the table next to my bed. It was so darn cute that I just could not kill it. There was another one flying around by the lamp in my room.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Were the legs still kicking?

AnckSuNamun said:

Ewww! That is creepy as hell. Yuck!

GangstaFam said:

YES.

*sob*