On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:11:55PM -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote:

> They were roaches, called by some locals 'water bugs.'  When we lived
> in Baton Rouge, I remember pulling the sheet over my head to keep the
> ones crawling on the ceiling from dropping onto me.  They can fly,
> too; their natural high-rise towers are the water oaks (hence the
> moniker, I guess), but in the winter they find houses more cosy.  Mom
> used gallons of Raid before discovering Roach-Pruf, which is boric
> acid with an attractant (dessicates the creepies from the inside out,
> as they ingest it while grooming). <shudder>

Have you seen that ad for Expedia, "every bed equipped with mosquitoe
nets" and the image that invokes in the mind of the lady reading it?


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