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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.

son1 said,

June 25, 2006 @ 5:08 pm

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.

Tozier said,

June 25, 2006 @ 5:20 pm

One tasty shrimp, though, or one pet hermit crab, and all your crows suddenly might be white.

son1 said,

June 28, 2006 @ 9:11 am

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.

Tozier said,

June 28, 2006 @ 9:30 am

Yum. Shrimp.

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