Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

Peter Bleackley wrote:

> Staving Adam Walker:
>
> > > - can you imagine something like a cute bug ?
> >
> >Oh, you'll get a TON of affirmative answers on this
> >one.  We have an idiom "cute as a bug in a rug".
>
> I remember this one as "snug as a bug in a rug." Used when tucking small
> children into bed.
>
Yes; perhaps Adam was conflating it with "cute as a bug's ear" (whatever
THAT is!?)-- well, it's just so much water over the bridge.....

There are certainly cute bugs, though not many I think.  I've also seen a
few that could be called _elegant_, even if I would have preferred that they
not be in my house.

(Speaking of this, I still have in mind to do the Kash version of Gorey's
charming "The Bug Book".)

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