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[SSBubbles]

The Velociraptor was a bit of a handful in his younger days but he's hit 7 years old now and has quietened down a lot. Recently he's been a bit touchy though...he gets on ok with the donkeys but I think the cat winds him up.

You must be roach free too!

We came to Cyprus with no animals (no extra carbon footprints!) but we now have one dog and two cats - with a 'late' cat buried in the garden! Needless to say the cats rule the roost!

[connor]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

[denizaksulu]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

Our crapery in Anglissidhes (pre-1963) was full of roaches and centipedes. What have you done to the Cypriot Fauna? And we had a lot of chickens too.

[connor]

Must be due to all that water this lot drink....will have a word with them and see if we can get them to cut down their intake a little.

Mind you...at the rate they are building houses in this area I can quite see why nature is on the run...perhaps the roaches and centipedes have headed for Stavrovouni. Give the monks something to think about I s'pose.

[Tim Drayton]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

Our crapery in Anglissidhes (pre-1963) was full of roaches and centipedes. What have you done to the Cypriot Fauna? And we had a lot of chickens too.

I notice plenty of centipedes on patches of waste ground near where I live. This means that they are capable of thriving in Cypriot suburbia, provided they are left with some pieces of open ground.

I have always been fascinated by the way standard Turkish refers to these creatures as "kırkayak", i.e. "forty feet", whereas the etymology of the English word implies that they have 100 legs. What is the TC word for this insect, as a matter of interest?

[denizaksulu]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

Our crapery in Anglissidhes (pre-1963) was full of roaches and centipedes. What have you done to the Cypriot Fauna? And we had a lot of chickens too.

I notice plenty of centipedes on patches of waste ground near where I live. This means that they are capable of thriving in Cypriot suburbia, provided they are left with some pieces of open ground.

I have always been fascinated by the way standard Turkish refers to these creatures as "kırkayak", i.e. "forty feet", whereas the etymology of the English word implies that they have 100 legs. What is the TC word for this insect, as a matter of interest?

In Turkish/Islam everything revolves around the magic number of '40'.

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, The great flood, 40 days and 40 nights. The soul leaves the body from the nose after '40' days. Never leave a new born baby alone the first 40 days of its life and the list is endless. When I did my Zoology and grudgingly handled my first ever Centipede, I meticulously counted the number of feet.
I reckon the over exagerated attributes of these creatures preceded them. Noone dared to touch them to count their pesky legs. As kids we were toldthat the Centipedes would bit a hole through your body and crawl under your skin. When I saw the 'Mummy' with the Scarabs crawling under the 'undead' Egyptian, you can imagine my feeling. I was nearly sick.

Anyway Tim, I am sure you have come accross the magical '40' many times. Karma is the expert. I think we listed hundreds of these expressions.

Karma, are you there?

[Oracle]

- with a 'late' cat buried in the garden!

Steady on! Rather harsh, just for coming in late!

[SSBubbles]

- with a 'late' cat buried in the garden!

Steady on! Rather harsh, just for coming in late!

Poor sole had been warned about roaming the streets and then after being knocked over, he came home, crawled up the stairs even though half his insides were on the outside!
He died the next day

[CBBB]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

Our crapery in Anglissidhes (pre-1963) was full of roaches and centipedes. What have you done to the Cypriot Fauna? And we had a lot of chickens too.

I notice plenty of centipedes on patches of waste ground near where I live. This means that they are capable of thriving in Cypriot suburbia, provided they are left with some pieces of open ground.

I have always been fascinated by the way standard Turkish refers to these creatures as "kırkayak", i.e. "forty feet", whereas the etymology of the English word implies that they have 100 legs. What is the TC word for this insect, as a matter of interest?

GC's refer to them as "forty feet", probably inherited from the Ottomans?

[Tim Drayton]

O....Yep...Have got all the tools for the job and the wood is on order..Can't decide what colour to paint it..S'pose green is the in colour nowadays.

Bubbles you are right...very rarely see a roach round here. If one shows up I don't think he'd last 5 minutes with this lot roaming around.

Our crapery in Anglissidhes (pre-1963) was full of roaches and centipedes. What have you done to the Cypriot Fauna? And we had a lot of chickens too.

I notice plenty of centipedes on patches of waste ground near where I live. This means that they are capable of thriving in Cypriot suburbia, provided they are left with some pieces of open ground.

I have always been fascinated by the way standard Turkish refers to these creatures as "kırkayak", i.e. "forty feet", whereas the etymology of the English word implies that they have 100 legs. What is the TC word for this insect, as a matter of interest?

GC's refer to them as "forty feet", probably inherited from the Ottomans?

I have found:

σαρανταποδαπουσα (apologies to the purists but I have forgotten how to get the stress mark)

i.e. "one with forty feet" for a centipede/millpede in my dictionary of standard Greek.