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How did the cockroach get its name in the first place



PS: Nice story mr. Baron Sir!

I am sure we have all heard the story, of 'how the cockroach got its name'. Of course, a perpensity for understatement, and a fear of ruining my reputation for prudance and child-like innocence, would, at this junction in procedings, prevent me from recounting it, yet again, in this place

(For those who are now curious, the true etymology for the cockroach's name is simply an Anglicization of the Spanish 'cucaracha'. Carry on.)

Spoilsport

I was working out a very plausible explanation about the mating of a rooster and the butt end of a marijuana cigarette.



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Feel free. That's the reason I wrote it parenthetically.

I have planted the seed.

Let's see what the rest of the community comes up with.



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>> the Spanish 'cucaracha'. <<

Just means found, or from, 'under a rock' doesn't it?

~jwf~

I think it means, "evil creature that flies at your face when you look at it crawling on the far wall".

I thought it had something to do with;

'Bang your shoe on the floor a few times before you stick your foot into it.'

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? never

OK... who's up for writing a million and one 'how the cockroach got its name', storeys... I'm sure the post would like to run a long running 'how the cockroach got its name', semi-regular feature all clean ones mind... which sadly seems to rule out the 'how the cockroach got its name' storey I seem to have in my head

*makes notes*

This is why h2g2 is not like Wikipedia;


link = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

We are far superior

I am proud to be a Researcher here!

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Quite so.
Wikipedia don't have anyone nearly half insane enough to attempt the kind of first hand, detailed, scientific and quantitive research, such as which I carried out for the infamous, and as yet un-written up as a guide entry, detailed research into the entry, titled, simply 'Food Sex'.

I actualy managed to injur myself during some fo the highly scientific and insane research for that one... I just can't quite figure out how to make it/write it up into an entry

*whisper* chillies *whisper*

Shouldn't that be;

make it up / write it into an entry

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As ever with 2legs, I fear the answer is not what you assumed it would be.

I still get nightmares about the chilies. that was such* a bad idea

I told you it's not about the chillies - it's where you put them

I've just read the original announcement given in the first post of this conversation. These libraries have been given permission to archive any website whose web address ends in ".uk", and to celebrate, they've chosen 100 websites, including h2g2, which they will archive.

There's a problem here. Our web address no long ends in ".uk". It did when we were with the BBC, and the list of websites was probably devised back then. But it doesn't anymore, so they will not have legal permission to archive us.