Althouse: "There has been a dead cockroach in the anthropology building's stairwell for at least two weeks."

December 21, 2015

"There has been a dead cockroach in the anthropology building's stairwell for at least two weeks."

"Some enterprising person has now made her a little shrine."

"Here lies Rosie, a free roach."

17 comments:

Big Mike said...: I guess those Aggies jokes are true, at least when it comes to the janitorial service.; 12/21/15, 9:07 AM
khesanh0802 said...: A sense of humor still lives in Texas!; 12/21/15, 9:10 AM
Fernandinande said...: Awww...

The little screaming-person pic at the top of that page is from "Hyperbole and a Half": "The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas"; 12/21/15, 9:14 AM
Gahrie said...: This is why I love humanity....; 12/21/15, 9:34 AM
MacMacConnell said...: Brilliant!; 12/21/15, 10:32 AM
Darrell said...: Rosie: Safe space my ass!; 12/21/15, 11:34 AM
JAORE said...: Funny, until the shop steward realizes people are making fun of a union janitor.; 12/21/15, 11:50 AM
Thomas W said...: Class project?; 12/21/15, 11:56 AM
JackWayne said...: The shrine should have read "In these halls pass the slackest people on Earth".; 12/21/15, 12:15 PM
Snark said...: Blatant rip off of the Toronto raccoon!; 12/21/15, 12:37 PM
DavidD said...: "Insect lives matter," is it?

Racists.

(What's the tag for "Even I'm not sure whether I'm being snarky."?); 12/21/15, 12:51 PM
Bill said...: Blattodea lives matter.; 12/21/15, 1:08 PM
John henry said...: I am starting to get worried. I'm going to be taking a gig at a school where the students, faculty and housekeeping are such precious snowflakes they can't dispose of a cockroach?

Maybe I need to rethink this whole thing.

OTOH, I will be in an engineering faculty. An engineer would solve the problem by grinding the cockroach to molecules beneath their shoe. Nothing left but a stain, problem solved.

John Henry; 12/21/15, 2:20 PM
The Godfather said...: Early in my legal career I was representing a DC landlord who was seeking a rent increase under the rent control law. One of the tenants showed up at the hearing with one of those big glass-front cases that you use to display you butterfly collection -- except in her case it displayed the cockroaches and other insects that she had (allegedly) collected around her apartment and the common areas of the apartment building. Each specimen had a little label giving the latin name for the specific species of roach, as well as where and when it was collected.

I declined to cross-examine.; 12/21/15, 4:49 PM
commander0 said...: Somebody should put an alligator clip on it.; 12/21/15, 8:35 PM
Evelyn said...: Hat tip Harry Potter; 12/21/15, 10:10 PM
chillblaine said...: Didn't somebody poop in the hallway about two months ago?

I miss Betamax.; 12/21/15, 10:22 PM