A Short Break

I’ve been throwing words out there fairly fast and I need to take a break from writing for a day or so.

Steamboat McGoo has been advertising my “Know your roach” t-shirts and found Joe Sixpack and Susie Homemaker on the street at large at least get a good laugh. And if that is as far as it went, I’d be happy.  Getting someone to laugh these days, or even smile… is a big deal.

But there’s another idea that has been around for some time – The Dude and I were part of something great years ago.  It was the birth/formulation of the idea that since cockroaches are near to lobster on the evolutionary chart (h/t to Alton Brown) why not use cockroach meat to make faux lobster?

Thus was born Mocktails™, Cock-Tails™, or TerraLobster™.  Different people have different ideas for the best name.

This is your chance to throw in your opinion for the name of such a product.

Here’s the poll for the day:

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Cockroaches, Why Did There Have To Be Cockroaches…?

Update: My buddy EW1(SG) just gave me hell for grossing him out with cockroaches. Oh, this will really strain a friendship, but what the hell, no guts no glory. I can’t claim credit on this one but I can give it where it is due. Go to this site and look at the T-SHIRT.

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Sometimes, to cheer a friend up, you gotta gross ’em out.

Said friend related a story explaining his hatred of roaches. In his small room they had a habit of getting inside the TV, then doing a good job at self-immolation on a HV connection.

My version of blowing sunshine up someone’s butt required this response.

Look at the bright side:

1) You have a bugzapper

2) You have incense

3) Both were for no more price than that of watching TV

My post for tonight is the tool I used for the gross-out. It is something I cooked up – the cutting diagram for the American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana. I assume it is called the American Cockroach because they are so well suited for the BBQ.

It was buried in the UN-Bug Eating Post, but here is the TerraLobster™ (AKA “CockTails”) concept along the same lines.

cocktails-brochure (PDF FILE)

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