Left as an exercise to the student: Earwigs are icky because…?

I have about sev­en­teen mil­lion of them here, just now, under the ill-​​advised pile of ever­green prun­ing I left on our patio for a week while it rained. Write a 50-​​word or shorter essay on why they’re icky, oth­er­wise I will send you one mil­lion, on the pre­sump­tion that you must really dig them and want them to cuddle.

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4 thoughts on “Left as an exercise to the student: Earwigs are icky because…?

  1. it is axiomatic: all arthro­pods are icky. Or, to put it rather more oddly, “arthropod(X) implies icky(X)”

    And you’ve got a whole bun­cho arthropod(X).

    I apply modus ponens, QED.

  2. No no, you mis­un­der­stand. My for­mu­lae are not derived empir­i­cally, they are given. Shrimp can­not be cute or tasty by def­i­n­i­tion. My logic defines the bounds of my per­cep­tion, not the other way around.

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