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From American Demographics, Nov. 1991

Psychographic marketing techniques helped Raid roach spray marketers discover that the reason low-income Southern women were the heaviest users of roach spray was that "a lot of their feelings about the roach were very similar to the feelings that they had about the men in their lives," said the advertising executive on the account. They said the roach, like the man in their life, "only comes around when he wants food." The act of spraying roaches and seeing them die was satisfying to this frustrated, powerless group.

-- bitchslapper (bitchslapper@kotex.com), August 26, 2001

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You got it backwards. I likes to scare low-income southern women cuz they be fat, redneck trailer trash that are allus screamin at their menfolk. Put that in yer psychographic babble, bitchslapper.

-- (cucarocha@cucamunga.coocoo), August 26, 2001.

May I turn this into a "bug" thread?

We've got some pretty damn small flying beatles in this house. I have NO clue what they want here. They're about the size of a fruit fly, but they congregate in EMPTY cabinets to DIE! We vacuum out the dead bodies and on occasion, one of them flies over to land on our arm or [for the more stupid among them] into the small spider webs that I keep for the purpose of obliterating these little guys. SO said yesterday that we should call an exterminator, but my preference is to purchase some slides for the microscope and see what the hell these things ARE before we do that. They're NOT interested in food, and SO FAR seem to be a species that comes in to die. I'm really curious about what they are, what they EAT, and WHY they're so interested in OUR home.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), August 26, 2001.


As long as you've turned this into a 'bug' thread I have a question.

I have seen many spider webs in my life and was always struck by their beauty ... until the other day. I stepped outside at work and noticed a web between the bushes. It was a god awful mess! The spider who made that web was one sloppy insect. You would think it had to be drunk when spinning THAT web.

I guess my question is this - are there neat spiders AND sloppy spiders?

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), August 26, 2001.


Debra:

Are you, perchance, in California?

Stoned Spiders

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 26, 2001.


Now that's interesting Z.

I live in New Jersey. About a month ago the EPA notified us that a gas station (which is located 4 buildings uphill from us)had an underground spill. We were instructed not to use the water (well) until a filtration system was installed. They just completed it this past week.

The web I'm talking about looked somewhat like the marijuana or benzedrine webs. What kind of symtoms would gasoline cause, I wonder?

I never would have thought the sloppy web and the spill might be connected. Thanks.

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), August 26, 2001.



Doubt your spider drinks much well water Debra. As for a contact high, who knows?

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 26, 2001.

HEY CUCAROCHA, YOUR PSYCHOGRAPHIC BABBLE MAKES ME THINK, YOU FROM TEXAS? WHY DON'T YOU SUCK MY BLOODY KOTEX PAD, GIVE ME A COUPLE WEEKS, I'LL HAVE ONE READY FOR YOU.

LOVE, BITCHSLAPPER

-- bitchslapper (bitchslapper@kotex.com), August 27, 2001.


Carlos, WE drink the water from the well.

:)

Come to think of it I don't know where spiders live. Do they live in the ground? The trees? If they live in their webs this particular spider was not home at the time. I suppose it decided it better try again another day.

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), August 27, 2001.


Debra: Spiders live EVERYWHERE...in the ground, in the trees, in the garden, in the house, etc. They DO jaunt around, however, which is why sometimes you find one on your computer screen or walking across your leg.

Heh. When daughter#2 and her beau spent a few days here recently, they were laying on some comforters on the frontroom floor, settled in to watch The Green Mile. The young man fell asleep, but my daughter jumped up, got a paper towel and started smacking at the comforter. She'd seen this guy [a good-sized wolf-type spider] walking across her beau's arm.

My guess on the poorly weaved web is that either nature messed with it or a good-sized body of prey put up a good fight. I don't imagine it's easy to live a life where one must kill dinner in one's home [and have energy left over to clean up the mess.] There's also the problem of running out of room to hide the bodies.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), August 27, 2001.


Anita:

Not all spiders spin webs. You have mentioned a few. Different than what Debra was asking about. An example:

Hunting Spiders 101

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 27, 2001.



Thanks, Z. All I knew about that wolf-like spider was that the kids had seen it outside before the movie. I'm constantly amazed at the spiders who can do the "aerial" feats. We rarely see the "line" of sticky webbing, but if caught in the sunlight, we can sometimes see a thin line going from say the pole lamp to the T.V. We exclaim, "How DO they do that?", and brush the line away.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), August 27, 2001.

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