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My dad didn't particularly want to eat them, and my mom wouldn't have served them. All the embarassmant and/or discomfort belonged to my mom, as my dad was happy to launch into detailed descriptions regarding the spread of pinworms, hookworms and roundworms, how the ingestion of fecal matter aided the process, how the scratching of certain areas broadcast eggs into the air...<br><br>Then there was the matter of how parasites are host-specific, and dog or cat worms can get 'lost' in a human host, turning up in unexpected places. And our friend the tapeworm, which, well, has a yen to travel, and the location of the exit...<br><br>No embarassment there on his part, and I grew up thinking everybody talked like this at the table. When my mom would try to shift the topic, he'd say, 'Viju, this is science!' as if it somehow sterilized the topic. Didn't bother me, but our friends at the table often had strange looks on their faces. I don't know if they stopped eating, I was too busy scarfing my mom's good food.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">To: Vision2020@moscow.com<br>From: nielsen@uidaho.edu<br>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:09:59 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Roaches<br><br><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I am in the process of dealing with an apparently educated man in the LA area who believes in unicorns because the Bible mentions them. Well, Sunil, the Good Book also tells us that we may eat some insects. So your father needn't feel embarrassed at the dinner table.</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" size="4" face="Trebuchet MS">"All winged insects that go upon all fours are an abomination to you. Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth. Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px;">But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you" (Leviticus 11:20-23 RSV).</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ralph</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" size="4" face="Courier">Ah, Blatella germanica. </font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" size="4" face="Courier">[My dad is primarily a medical entomologist, and secondarily a parasitologist, and to my mother's dismay dinner conversations often involve worms, mosquitoes, and other insects. We used to go through his books to identify our pests.]</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">[snip]</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" size="4" face="Courier">Good times, good times.</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" size="4" face="Courier">Sunil</font></div></body>
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