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...have come not for a balmy retirement, but for work, mostly at night. They are geckos-purple polka-dotted lizards, ranging from three inches to a foot long-and their job is eating cockroaches. Convinced that poisons and fatally sticky boxes do not provide enough firepower in the roach war, many Floridians are giving store-bought geckos (price: $10 to $20 apiece) the run of their homes. Bill Huff, who owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week. He ran an ad in the Florida State University newspaper: GOT ROACHES? GET GECKO. St. Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Leapin' Lizards | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Krieger can, for instance, tell you just who it was who came up with what is now his universal vocal community nickname: Bernie the Roach. He can tell you which member of the Harvard Krokodiloes (in the early '70s still a subset of the Glee Club) thought of rewriting the lyrics to "yo ho" during which rehearsals in which room in Sever. (The produce of that effort appears elsewhere on the page.) He will even tell you he doesn't mind the nickname. "I have never been sure," he will tell you, "whether the roach they referred to was something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yo Ho for Bernie the Roach | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...than many of the undergraduate singers are willing to admit. Krieger is for them primarily a social focus rather than a musical or managerial one. The chronicle of any Harvard singer's Glee Club or Collegium career is bound to include a few very amusing stories about Bernie the Roach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yo Ho for Bernie the Roach | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Bernie's--a roach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yo Ho for Bernie the Roach | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...prove this contention, researchers at Epton, Mullin, Segal, and Druth attempted to document every rat, roach, and mouse ever seen in a New York City, Chicago, or Washington D.C. McDonald's between 1977 and the present. As Dayan's attorney's have noted, that adds up to a lot of health and safety violations. But that strategy failed when Judge Curry ruled that violations by outlets outside of France were irrelevant to the case--thus forbidding Dayan's attorneys from entering four boxes of illegible city health reports into evidence...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: Ronald McDonald on Trial | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

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