A Roach by any other name...
I know a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I'm thinking that roaches might be easier to live with if they had a nicer name. Let's face it - if you told me you woke up and found ladybugs or butterflies crawling all over your kitchen table, I'd hardly cringe. Put the word "roach" in there and that changes everything.
So having tried nearly everything to get rid of them, like the King in The King, The Mice, and the Cheese I need to learn to live with them. And the first step is re-naming. And I need your help.
I know most of my readers are not commenters, but please, do this for me. Leave me a comment with your idea of what I should re-name my roaches. Then pass the word on to your friends and ask them to do the same.
Please. Don't leave me alone with these..."ladybugs."
11 comments:
How about "Blattarians?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattaria
Crumb Beetle
Disease bags? I know that isn't at all what you wanted, but it's what John and I call a few different things around the house that we have to keep but are dirty nonetheless (like some of our kids' stuffed animals)
My dear friend, this is why you need a Southerner around. In South Carolina they have a lovely insect called the "Palmetto Bug." Now doesn't that sound nicer than "roach"? And if you say it with a Southern accent, it even sounds civilized ;)
You know, I'm with TwoSquareMeals. Palmetto Bug sounds so dignified and appealing.
Although shouting "You darned blattidae!" would be more relieving!
In college, we had some roach issues (not in the dorms, thank goodness!). We named ours Eenie, Meanie, Miny and George.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach
I am with your borther on this one...go for the root of the problem...call them by the name their mother would use...
I would call them "HOMELAND SECURITY".
I like Two's idea of Palmetto bugs. We call them "crickets". Cause a chirpy cricket is much less innocuous than the roach that you inadvertently pick up on the Tylenol bottle at 1am.
WV: "gympless"- you could call them gymps and then, once you call pest control, you'd be gympless!
Just call them "little dudes"... (ignoring that some of them will be female...)
"Hey, did you brush the little dudes off the kitchen table this morning?"
I like "Black bugs."
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