KL and Assers, your own creepy crawly psychological wounds may be too fresh, so please enjoy this photo and read no further. Behold, the fiercely corded thighs of one Fernando Torres, Liverpool FC Striker extraordinaire:

Cheers. Now on to an interesting sort of website, for those times when you bend over to pick up the shampoo bottle off the shower floor, and a massive insect leaps up and threatens your honor.

What’s That Bug very kindly answers the question, “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT GET RID OF IT NOW!” They even have a much-diminished specimen of my own archenemy, the Crickets of the Apocalypse, native to basement apartments in wooded areas of northern NJ. Item:

These fuckers are BIG. And they jump even bigger. For approximate size, imagine a rocking horse for a squirrel. Their giant muscled thighs would give Nando up there a run for his money, and the fly fishing antennae and camo-skin don’t help, either.

Are you still shuddering? Me, too! In addition to the shoot-me-now specimens, What’s That Bug has some very interesting fellows such as these uberladybugs, apparently “red milkweed beetles:”

And that’s it for entomology. I’m sticking to etymology forthwith, which doesn’t make my skin crawl. And if any of these little bastards comes near me, I’ll throw an anvil at them.

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