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Well, I was sitting in the bath this evening, just having a good soak with my head near the faucet end of the tub when all of a sudden I remembered this fear I had as a kid, a fear of spiders crawling out the faucet. I can laugh over it now, almost, but as a kid this was a real, deep set fear, like the kind of fear I get when the deep end of a pool is dark and I imagine there are sharks.. in a pool, mind you. It was especially potent to me because if you ever happen to try and look up the faucet in a bathtub it's dark and you can't see a thing at all. I also had a fear of the dark as a child. You can see how this compounded. I couldn't even put my toes on the faucet because they'd probably be attacked straight away by tarantulas and black widows and scorpions and such, like the scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where the girl puts her hand in the hole to save Indy and the little Asian kid; I still can't watch that scene without a little bit of a flinch. Anyway, I remembered that fear-- the one about spiders and faucets-- which made me think of a line from one such movie or another where some guy goes, "he's like a cockroach you keep flushing down a toilet, he just crawls back up the bowl." it was a line something like that and that really set me thinking, do cockroaches even have lungs? do they have respiratory systems? and why is a peanut neither a pea nor a nut, but an altogether different species called 'legume'?