Adrienne DeArmas wrote: > > In a message dated 97-10-16 10:21:23 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes: > > > BTW, here in Florida they're called "Palmetto Bugs". Sounds like > > something the Tourist Bureau dreamed up, eh? <G> > > Not to digress, but there is a huge difference between cockroaches and > palmetto bugs! Palmetto bugs are huge and they fly and they smell like grape > jelly when you squish 'em and they only live in Florida - they never seem to > cross into Georgia. Cockroaches are tiny, little, small, big, and huge, only > some of them fly and they definately don't smell like grape jelly because no > one here in DC seems to know what I mean by that! > > - Adrienne Regional variants abound. In Chicago they were (are?) called 'water bugs' when I was growing up. They were large (about an inch and a half on average), black, shiny, terrifying, non flying creatures that on one occasion got inside a closed(!) peanut butter jar that I kept in a dresser in my room. When I was at Indiana University, their cockroaches were small and mottled brown. I was told they were called 'German cockroaches'. They were all over, but especially noticeable when on meal-less Sundays, students tried to use the stoves provided in the dorms. On warming up the oven, the roaches fled - they were living in the insulation in the oven walls. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Ginny Cass President, Board of Directors Northern Rockies Heritage Center P. O. Box 1884 Missoula, MT 59806-1884 phone 406-728-3662 (message) fax 406-728-5963 email [log in to unmask] http://www.nrhc.org