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cockroach, El Paso Zoo, ex-love, humor, Love, meerkats, valentine, Valentines Day
Whether or not all your ex’s live in Texas…
The El Paso Zoo has an offer that’s hard to resist. Just add a message or comment with your fave roach’s name and they will feed it to their meerkats on February 14th.
The thousands of comments already received include names of ex-loves, but also mothers-in-law, bosses, and several requests for roaches named Donald.
Sample comments include:
- There must be an old cockroach that thinks it still has swag…please name him Bino and tell him that he didn’t have it then either!
- If you find one that keeps going in circles and coming back to the same place kind of like a stalker roach I want my ex on that one.
- Is there anything you can feed the Meerkats, that will make their teeth sharper, while we wait?
- if you have 3 roaches that drink to much, bob, Melvin and mike. happy valentines day
- It would be a very small cockroach for the best representation.
- And for my ex Boss please take a really ugly One! His name is Marc O
You can message El Paso Zoo here with your choices and even watch the meerkats live as they chow down on your ex’s namesake.
Who is YOUR roach-worthy nominee?
Barb Taub 
That is very funny. There may be a number of roaches named Donald. Not sure, just a feeling I have. I don’t know anyone I would like to be eaten by a meerkat at this point in my life.
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That’s probably the DEFINITION of a successful life!
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Hummmm. We are sending live animals to their deaths. Has anyone mentioned the barbarity? Thought not. I can think of a few people we could substitute. . . Not at all creepy.
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So we all see what you’re doing here. Working that clever “barbarity” play on my name? (I’m feeling the urge to submit another cockroach name!)
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as you would say: mwhaha!!!
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LOL what a great idea! 🤣 I’ve got a few names I can add to their list!
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It’s really like a super cheap form of aversion therapy. Sheer genius.
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What will they think of next?
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That’s a very clever idea! 🙂
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I do believe, on reflection, Barb, that I am most likely to be the roach in this particular game.
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In college a classmate and I once brought ourselves to do a crude, cruel neurological experiment (sticking sharpened wires in the eyes, to measure their reactions to light) on “Jimmy Roach” and “Franky Roach.”
I still wish all my ex-boyfriends well. Wherever they may be…though in the case of Frank, who was almost as young as I was at the time and if possible even more clueless, the farther that is from me is still the better.
So I nominate Werner Baumann, the Bayer CEO who plans to get rich peddling painkillers to all the people out there having painful reactions to glyphosate. I hope more people name roaches “Werner” than name them even “Donald.”
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Ha! This is fabulous Barb.
Ummm…. Okay. If they have half a dozen roaches who think the word “divorced” means they are still married, name them… Oh, bushwa, I can’t remember all the names. (Hence a determinedly single Teagan!)
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My daughter and I both enjoyed this post way too much. Plenty of ex’s between us. Hilarious!
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The meerkats will dine well!
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We had a family of whistling cockroaches in my son’s bedroom for five years living in a fish tank of wood chips. They were all called Whitaker. Does that help.
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It kind of depends on who the original Whitaker was…
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Ah yes well, he appeared one day on a small box courtesy of my dad..
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It took me a while to remember my candidate’s name, so I guess I’ve forgiven, so I’ll pass.
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The sign of a life very well lived!
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