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Heh, crickets and daddy long legs 

i hate cockroaches and spiders  i like none they all suck espescially crickets and daddy schlong legs

daddy long legs isn't even a spider.

Here's something interesting about daddy long legs spiders you may not know:  They have one of the highest mutation rates of any creature on the planet.  How do I know this?  Here's the story.....

For the last 14 months, I've been working as a research aid at Argonne labs.  Appearantly, many years ago a pair of mutated daddy long legs was brought to the lab, disected, and studied.  One weighed in at 4 lbs and the other was 2.5 lbs.  And before you think that it's just an urban legend, I know it's true.  They're sitting in a vacume sealed case on a wall DIRECTLY in front of my desk.  That's right, I have two giant, dead, gutted mutant spiders about 12 feet from where I eat my lunch!

Skeptic much?  Seriously, man.  It's in the research library, where I do my work.  I have to throw my coat over it before I can eat!  Oh, and if your getting your info on spiders from the national library (where most people find thier pointless facts) it doesn't include mutations.

It was a discovery EVERYONE heard about.  It was found in Springfield, IL in 1968.  In fact, many environmentalists belived that it was caused by the Nuclear plant near to where it was found.  That comes straight from "Argonne News," the labs first attempt at a semi-annual newsletter, November 1968.  So, HAH!
(If they'd let me take a camera to work, I'd take and post a picture for you.)

Okay, okay.  Don't believe me.  If you're still interested though, go to your local library and ask them to find you a copy of the afore-mentioned newsletter and read about it for yourself.  Maybe it'll change your mind, maybe it won't.
Now, I never said that it was caused by the Plant.  I said that's what some environmentalists at the time blamed it on.  I only mentioned this because you're an environmentally-conscious individual and I hoped it might jog some memory of something you read in the past.  Oh well.
And, finally, I am not trying to make you look like a fool.  In fact, you're the only person I've met here that I not only respect, but enjoy conversing with.  Please, do not misinterpret my intentions.  I'd hate to have you think otherwise.  (oh, and while i'm on the subject, I suspect that my respect for you comes from the fact that we both enjoy a good debate!)

Tropical Cockroach!

The tropical cockroach kicks ass

Some info i copied off a webpage (cos it said exactly what i was going to say in a more detailed way)-
Not all roaches are created equal. This tropical species with neon colored jelly bean cerci was attracted to fish bait. Roaches have endured a notorious reputation although only few species have adapted to share our dwellings and exploit or food reserves. Other roaches are important scavengers. Most people's fear of insect comes from their proliferation, monstrous appearance, and seeming indifference and autonomy towards humans.

Roach, did these sorts of things inspire your name perhaps?
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I like insects. I like most living creatures, therefore i do not kill them. The only thing i ever kill are things that try to harm me, or things i care about. I.E. mosquitos, slugs etc. etc. Everything else lives! I will go out of my way to save any little thing i find in my house. Maybe it is this sort of mentality that makes me a liberal. God, i'm such a jerk. . .

You thing slaughterer!!!!!

Im honestly not sure what inspired my name, i wanted it to be a random word and i was listening to Papa Roach at the time i made Roachsta so i somehow got it from that.

My name on this board was just another random version of Roachsta

I never kill 'bugs' either mold, i once killed a large spider, it was on my face when i woke up. Shouldn't have but still

I sometimes used to turn myself into a cockroach and murder anybody in humanoid form i'd eventually get an army of roaches in town but never when original Anom was on, he'd shoot me with his m16 if i tried to do it to him ah the good old days when i was powerful and you were all so weak! 

Good point on the inferior thing XTTZ  , better point about him being inferior to you Mold.