There’s been enough talk about Medflies lately.Let’s...
There’s been enough talk about Medflies lately.
Let’s move on to cockroaches.
A critter billed as the world’s largest roach will make a guest appearance on his tiny, circular gold lame stage today and Sunday at the Lorquin Entomological Society Insect Fair at the County Arboretum in Arcadia.
“He looks very Hollywood,” said spokesman Michael Bohdan.
The roach--let’s call him Seymour--will have a supporting cast of other roaches, ants and spiders lugged to the premises by bug collectors. “It’s kind of like a convention of baseball-card collectors who swap back and forth,” said Bohdan.
Seymour, whose 1.88-inch body won a national competition held by Combat bug exterminators, doesn’t do any tricks, since he’s deceased.
“We accepted live entries the first year we held the contest,” explained Bohdan. “But some escaped.”
Seymour hails from Brooklyn. The only Southern California city to place in the top 10, interestingly enough, was Palm Springs. Probably a retired roach.
As the ad says, parts is parts: Alhambra police recently raided an auto parts store that doubled as a brothel.
One-Stop Shopping: Rosalie Fox points out that a mini-mall on the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights is packed with fast-food joints on the first floor and a Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center on the second floor. Binge and climb. Binge and climb.
They’ve Stopped Hitting the Bottle:
Six of the seven offices of the Department of Water and Power furnishing bottled water to their employees have gone back to the tap stuff after admitting that they’d made an “administrative error,” a spokeswoman said Friday.
One office will keep its bottles because it’s having “a problem with the plumbing.”
Revelations that DWP employees were using bottled water followed a recent $500,000 advertising campaign by the agency to persuade people to drink from their taps. Like Seymour did.
Residents elsewhere in California have another reason to resent us.
Just the other day, the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune wrote:
“Some people think immigrants from Southern California are destroying San Luis Obispo County’s rural character. They ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The next wave of L.A. refugees could be multicolored, citrus-sucking bugs.”
Yup, Medflies.
Have a happy St. Patrick’s Day. But let’s hope you didn’t forget to celebrate St. Uhro’s Day on Friday. St. Uhro’s, according to Chase’s Annual Events publication, is a tongue-in-cheek holiday that “honors the patron saint who drove the grasshoppers out of the vineyards in Finland.”
To San Luis Obispo, no doubt.
