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I don't think I've ever been that hungry. And we were pretty short of food when I was young.

Who can?

I've only seen a cockroach once, in a hotel in NYC. It was lying there in the hall, squashed, and maintenance didn't remove it. I tried very hard not to think of the claim that for every roach you see there are 100 you don't see.

Yes, best not to think about that!

Unfortunately I see them rather regularly. They used to infest the archive files at work, so I'd go to look up an old file and a cockroach would run out. Hideous.

Oh yikes! That must add a highly unnecessary stress factor in your everyday life. Yuck!
Like I said, roaches aren't much of a problem here, but I do have an unsubstantiated fear of big spiders, harvest men and a bug whose English name I'm not sure of, but it looks like a flying harvestman.

I hadn't heard the term harvest men. Just looked it up. Wish I hadn't.

I can deal with cockroaches while others around me are shrieking (I do jump if they run out unexpectedly) but I hate spiders. I know what you mean about the flying ones, I can't think of their name though. We used to call them daddy long legs, but I think thats wrong.

Now...to detract from all this unpleasantness, here's this:

Yeah, I hear you.

Ugh I had a really nasty encounter with a harvest man some years ago. I was on my bed with Nemo in my arms, stroking her, her snout resting against my cheek. It was so nice! Then out of the corner of my right eye I see something grey on my T-shirt. I turn my head slightly and see a harvest man crawling up my shoulder. I gently put Nemo down on the bed, then jumped up and ripped my T-shirt off me and threw it across the room in pretty much one move.

My mother got the vacuum cleaner and took it. She said it had held up its front legs as if it tried to protect itself. Then I felt sorry for it. I still do. I hate killing an animal, even a harvest man which I can't stand, but I wasn't gonna let it stay in my room! And I'm way too wimpy to catch them myself.

The flying nightmare I mentioned is something that has many names here. I call it høyhest. If you wanna take a look, it's a pic in the link below. Warning: It's icky.
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stankelbein

And now we're gonna talk about nice things. How cute are these?




And a hatchling with it's egg tooth

You did very well to put Nemo down gently. I would have leapt across the room shrieking as soon as I saw it.
Interest makes me want to look up your høyhest, but experience tells me I'd probably rather not see it.

Instead here is another turtle princess for you:


And just a beautiful picture to take your mind off horrid things:

Thanks! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't satisfied with that afterwards, because the way I feel about harvest men, it was an accomplishment. It's close to being a phobia.


That's understandable, they're not cutesy. If you change your mind the link will be there.

Thank you for posting the pics! The turtle princess is cute and the reflected young turtle is gorgeous!

More cuties:



How alike Crush (Finding Nemo) is this green?

That Sphinx Cat is standing like a Meerkat.

Did not know that they could do that.

Maybe it's Meerkat in disguise! Spy-kat!
It's gone undercov-meer!

Under-meer: Under-sea?

Duuude, Crush.

Now it makes more sense!

I'm sure Crush and Sammy are involved somehow.

Oversky? Overland? Overlord?

About time this thread was activated again!

Kyle, why did you stop using the blue text?

I definitely agree.


Was it some other color before I first saw it?