1.   Cockroaches go on to careers in law and journalism while palmetto bugs flunk out of vocational school and make a killing doing consulting work for the federal government.

2.   I nominate the palmetto bug.

3.   In the bathroom I saw the biggest palmetto bug I ever saw.

4.   Palmetto bugs are notoriously bad-tempered and have been known to take hostages.

5.   Palmetto bugs are similar to cockroaches only much bigger.

6.   People crawled out of the woodwork like palmetto bugs.

7.   Palmetto bugs are more likely to haunt our dreams.

8.   Years ago when I was stationed in Florida, the natives there referred to the same creatures as palmetto bugs.

9.   Aside from wrestling, chasing and grooming each other, the apes spend their days eating nettles, bark, vines and ants as big as palmetto bugs.