Oh, won't you be my six-legged valentine?

[gekkogecko]

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040203/ap_on_fe_st/cockroach_valentine

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Cockroaches Suggested As Valentine Gifts
Tue Feb 3, 7:39 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Looking for a little something special for your valentine? How about a hissing cockroach? That's the suggestion from the folks at the Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton, N.Y.

The zoo is running a Valentine's Day (news - web sites) adoption program called "Give Your Beauty a Beast."

For ten bucks, you can adopt a hissing cockroach for your sweetheart. The adoption includes a photo, cockroach fact sheet and a free pass for your special friend to visit the little hisser.

If a roach doesn't say "I love you," the zoo has some romantic alternatives. There's a bearded dragon, a black vulture and a bleeding heart dove.

[jseal]

gekkogecko,

I'll admit that it never occurred to me to give my sweetheart a cockroach as a token of my love for her. Another of my limitations, alas.

[LixyChick]

I'd simply adore a lacewing! The "I Love You" is in their eyes!

[naughtyangel]

ewwwwww! honest-to-god, if my husband did that I'd tell him to take a flying leap to the nearest loony bin, lol

[cowgirltease]

would love to give my ex a stinging scorpion!:p :devil:

[Ryan²]

I know some people I'd love to tease too... ;)