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Message no. 1
From: dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:00:22 -0500
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:50:46 +1000 "Robert Watkins"
<robert.watkins@******.com> writes:
<SNIP>
>With all due respect to Webster's... that's a load of crap. ;)

Webster's did go on to include the colloquial definition but since I was
referring to the colloquial definition, I did not include it.

>"Bug" is a colloquial word. The colloquial usage of that word, as it
applies
>to animals, covers the full-range of creepy-crawlies, including insects,
>arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. It is not a scientific definition
>based on the order of species, and if Webster has it as such, then the
>editors of that esteemed dictionary should go back to grammar school
(God
>knows that they can't spell... ;)
>
>In addition, Pix... the only species actually KNOWN as a bug is a
variety of
>lobster.

Eh. So?

>"sometimes referred to as...", Pix, that's why it's a colloquial
definition.
>:)

As I said, spiders are sometimes lumped under the heading of bugs.
However, that is incorrect. Uninformed people do not refer to spiders as
bugs. They are NOT bugs. Lobsters are not bugs. Crabs are not bugs.
Would you like me to continue? :)

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Message no. 2
From: Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:56:20 +1000
DGhost writes:
> Webster's did go on to include the colloquial definition but since I was
> referring to the colloquial definition, I did not include it.

Huh? You were referring to the colloquial definition, so you didn't include
it?

In any case, I _was_ referring to the colloquial definition. I said so in
the post you replied to with that Webster's quote.

> As I said, spiders are sometimes lumped under the heading of bugs.
> However, that is incorrect. Uninformed people do not refer to spiders as
> bugs. They are NOT bugs. Lobsters are not bugs. Crabs are not bugs.
> Would you like me to continue? :)

If you take out the word "bug" there, and replace it with "insect",
I'll buy
it... but "bug" is a colloquial word, and covers spiders, gosh darn it! ;)

And a bug is so a lobster/shrimp (I'm a bit vague on which one... I don't
eat either). If you come to Brisbane, I'll shout you a seafood dinner and
prove it. :)

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Message no. 3
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:12:32 -0500
> >"sometimes referred to as...", Pix, that's why it's a colloquial
> >definition. :)
>
> As I said, spiders are sometimes lumped under the heading of bugs.
> However, that is incorrect.

No it's not. Spiders are so bugs. Nyaaah, so there!!

It's easier to say "bug" than it is to say "creepy crawly thing with too
many fraggin' legs." :)

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Message no. 4
From: Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:45:38 +0100
In article <199906221246.IAA12639@*********.html.com>, Lady Jestyr
<jestyr@*********.html.com> writes
>Me, I define 'bug' as 'anything that provokes an immediate response of
>trying to splat it with a handy shoe rather than work out its precise
>entomological nature'

Dave Barry pointed out the origins of the word "insect".

It's from the Greek "ins", meaning "a", and "secta", meaning
"horrible
disgusting creature"...

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Paul J. Adam
Message no. 5
From: Geoffrey Haacke knight_errant30@*******.com
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:52:33 CST
>It's easier to say "bug" than it is to say "creepy crawly thing with
too
>many fraggin' legs." :)

Then say spider and avoid the whole debate. :)

>
>--
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> El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
>
>
>
>
>


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Message no. 6
From: dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject: You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:20:48 -0500
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:24:20 -0500 Patrick Goodman <remo@***.net> writes:
>>>It's easier to say "bug" than it is to say "creepy crawly thing
>>>with too many fraggin' legs." :)

>>Then say spider and avoid the whole debate. :)

>That would be way too easy,

Yeah, and some of us want to get a leg up on our debating skills :P

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