CYNICALLY EXPLOITATIVE CONTEST OF THE DAY

Wow. Also: Ew.

(Thanks to queensbee)

Comments

[Blood-Letter Rackham (cheryl howard)]

Ew, euw, euuuuuuuwwwww.

[Cheryl Howard]

Darned Cookies.

[Clean Hands]

Depends on how long the lines were.

And how loudly it hissed at me.

[bob]

Talk about exploitative - check out this eBay auction - dude is going to get really, really lucky from his poor fiancee as bidding is over a $1,000 now!

[Siouxie]

YUMMMMO!!

Anyone up for it??uh...I'll watch.

[mudstuffin]

Does anyone else think it's weird that Judi chose to post this, along with the exploding toad juice story, right at lunch time? What,is Judi on a diet or something? The "think about something really disgusting instead of eating diet"?

(Also, she tried to slip a snake story in while I was a Wendy's, but I have caught up with her. The belated ode is posted.)

[Clean Hands]

Holy Followup, bob - I gotta try this gambit.

[wench]

and I'll bet all the bidders are men, just trying to help out a brother

[Clean Hands]

Well, duh.

[Clean Hands]

Either that, or the guy's mistress. "Well, here's one way to get a break from his constant demands."

[wolfie]

As a teenager, for a line jumping pass, I would have snarfed that thing down in under 10 seconds.
Now they would have to make it a chocolate covered giant hissing roach. Or deep fried.

[Kathybear]

Now for a free entry, maybe, but just to get to the front of the line, no way... BTW, those roaches are BIG!!!

[tropichunt.com guy™]

Disney's going to compete, with an 'eat Mickey the Mouse' promotion, where you eat a mouse and then get yourself tied to a pole and put inside the "It's A Small World" ride for 30 days.

Problem is, there's a legal loophole that they have to get around, as this apparently violates the Geneva Convention...

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

I wouldn't eat Mickey.
Belle or Snow White, maybe, but not if I ended up violating the Geneva Convention.

[queensbee]

bwahhhha tropichuntguy. i think they should televise it for fear factor. i wont watch anyway.... i dont even like spiders. ewww.

[Clean Hands]

Keep an open mind - spiders are good eatin', queensbee!

[Artchick]

Eating the roach increases your risk of allergies? Umm, I think I'm already allergic to bug-eating and I don't need to try one first to find out. It would also increase my risk of barfing.

[Dr Acula]

Sensational development on the eBay b*****b auction! His fiancee's parents have heard about it, and they are demanding to know what a b*****b is.....

[24]

Dr. Acula - that's already been discussed - it's a backrub, of course!

[Katja]

How long before PETA gets involved on behalf of the poor roaches?

[Clean Hands]

*picketing*
"Free The Roaches! Free The Roaches!
"Did somebody say free roaches, man?"

[Siouxie]

*wanders in with a can of RAID™ and sprays the yucky critter*

*skips out singing* (CAUTION: EARWIG ALERT)

Ding Dong! The Roach is dead. Which old Roach? The Wicked Roach!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Roach is dead.

[Red]

I'm just hoping they didn't find the roaches from behind the concession stands.

[Ross]

Once again we have nature imitating art. Dave wrote a column on the possibility of a TV show featuring people eating bugs for money years ago.

Just a thought - for how long does the cockroach keep hissing after you eat it?

[queensbee]

i think it stops kinda in mid-hiss, but i couldnt be too sure. and a snork at siouxie. uh-oh. earworm ....

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

I wouldn't eat it, even if it didn't hiss, and even if they opened the park only for me and my family for a week. Nope.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

lol @ siouxie and tropic

[DRC]

So Six Flags gets some free publicity, and solves that nasty roach problem at the same time. Someone's in line for a promotion!

[The end]

I like Bob's aution better than teh cockroaches! I have got a garage full of junk I could sell! If i got one dollar for each item.... Hmmmm Wow! I need to get busy! I need a backrub!

[Valadon]

Cockraoches for lunch and enterence. I think I'll have the White Wine with that (Does white go with insects?) Or a Martini, shaken, not stirred

[Ryan]

First of all, Madagascar hissing roaches are HUGE. More than a mouthful, they'd have to chew a bit. And second, I'm surprised that no animal rights groups are on this. Fried or chocolate-covered is one thing, but live is something else...

[Ryan]

Whoops, hadn't read the next article when I posted that. PETA is goofy, but I'm with them on this one. I knew an entomology prof who kept several members of that species as pets -- they really are gentle and fairly slow-moving (iirc that's why they hiss), and a pretty cool beastie, for a bug.