For your Valentine....

[patgund]

Wondering what to get your sweetie for Valentine's day?? Well, Ross Park Zoo in Binghampton, New York, thinks a Matagascarian Hissing Cockroach would make an ideal way to say "I Love You".

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/04/offbeat.beastly.valentines.ap/

For when you want to give the gift that they'll remember - and keep bringing up - nothing says "Be My Valentine" like a Giant Hissing Cockroach.

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

There's an exterminator out here whose logo is a cowboy riding a bucking cockroach.

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[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

There IS? I'd missed this one. (Yeah, I don't get out much.)

Please promise me that nobody will show that to Brendan...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd take this as a breakup message.

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

OTOH, I think it'd make a great gift for the cats ;-).

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[patgund.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured it was the "gift they'll never forget - or forgive"

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[selenite.livejournal.com]

Pick-up truck on I-20. I won't.

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

I've considered giving silly one. Blessed Be, Angelique

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

There's no "P" in Binghamton.

Fionn (1993 Graduate of SUNY-Binghamton Graduate School, with the boychild born there in 1994 to boot)

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

They offer cockroaches for Valentines' day every year. I wonder why it made the newswires this time around.

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[patgund.livejournal.com]

The article had both "Binghamton" and "Binghampton". I figured I had a 50% chance of being wrong either way. :-)