Word: cockroach
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DeWolfe 1. Conveniently located overflowhousing for students in various river houses.Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator,bathtub and bay windows. 2. you and everyone elsewill subsidize these luxury condominiums bysuffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubleswhen you're sophomores...
...repeatedly -- that there are more important things to pay attention to on the upcoming shuttle mission than a lowly payload specialist such as himself. For example, Glenn is going to have some skittish houseguests to take care of after Thursday's blastoff: three casefuls of large, brown, southern-style cockroaches. The nose-wrinkling experiment belongs to a Maryland high school, who are paying the bugs' round-trip ticket to discover whether zero gravity throws off cockroach reproductive skills...
...very well, but Glenn and his fellow humans will be forgiven a few twinges of disgust and fear at the presence of the roach-o-nauts. It's less than two years since the embattled space station Mir was plagued by the presence of a single floating cockroach -- which, not surprisingly, came aboard by accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps the 77-year-old senator should...
John Romero, creator of Doom and Quake computer games: "The creature in Aliens. There's just so much mystery: Does it rule its home planet, or is it a cockroach in the evolutionary chain of an ancient, superdeveloped world? The sheer terror this monster can cause is overwhelmingly savage...
Jack's also offers a wide array of edible (and not-so-edible) products. Trick your friends over drinks with floating eyeballs or ice cubes containing bugs. Offer dinner guests a bagel with a "cockroach surprise" and for an after-dinner mint, give them a piece of garlic-, pepper-, hot- or sour-flavored chewing gum. Or perhaps some oh-so-refined mustard candy...