Ovidiu/Jayne-I can easily foresee some cross marketing benefits to having a bug as a namesake. Future cans of Raid might well have “Kills pesky Neil Young Spiders and Roy Orbison Beetles” emblazoned on the front, thereby increasing marketability factors.

PD&F-nice one…”I once went down to Neil Young’s ranch and he rowed me out into the middle of a lake - putting my life in his hands once again. He waved at someone invisible and music started to play, in the countryside. I realized Neil had his house wired as the left speaker, and his barn wired as the right speaker. And Elliot Mazer, his engineer, said ‘How is it?’ And Neil shouted back ‘More barn!’
- Graham Nash

Jamaicans have a marvelously vivid word– blueswee –to describe those who are wily and hard to pin down: i.e., the Bob Marleys of the world. In native folklore, these qualities of cunning are personified by Anancy, a legendary figure whose name comes from the Twi anànse, meaning spider.
The Anancy stories, derived from the Ashanti and brought to Jamaica in the 1600s on slave ships from the Gold Coast, are fables wherein the small, weak spider man befuddles and outwits a host of adversaries, among them Brer Monkey, Brer Tiger and even Brer Death.

Relying on his guile (and a mystical faculty to alter his appearance at will), brave Brer Anancy illustrates the ability of the downtrodden to overcome the mighty–an inspirational bit of symbolism for the thralldom in slavery days.

“Like the blueswee spider man, reggae, as played by Bob Marley and the Wailers, is both a wellspring of homespun adages and a canny cultural tool with great facility for adaptation and innovation…”

“For a multitude of Jamaicans, Bob Marley is Anancy incarnate, a sagacious shantytown hero whose concerts evince the fearsome ballet of a black widow spider and boast a musical artifice shrewd enough to sidestep Brer Death himself…”

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobmarley/albums/album/301860/
review/6067604/babylon_by_bus

Listen well my compadres, it’s Charlotte, and a pig named Wilbur… what brung us here, and what keeps us connected. And, well, we had a few Roy’s for dinner. Stay close; write soon, and stay off the drugs !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Signed, your friend,
Wm. Barret Travis, Alabama Lodge No.3 - Free and Accepted Masons, later joined the Alabama militia as adjutant of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, Eighth Brigade, Fourth Division; American lawyer and soldier. At the age of 26, commander the Republic of Texas forces to died at the Battle of the Alamo ..huh?

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