14. Cockroaches Will Be The Only Things To Survive A Nuclear War
No, that ones true. Robin Williams did a bit on it a few years ago. Five cockroaches and Keith Richards, he said.
Yeah, and Iggy Pop and Cher and David Crosby the jokes been going around for a good long while in various forms. The myth that cockroaches are immortal creatures, invulnerable to the firestorms, concussive shockwaves and collateral damage that Mutually Assured Destruction would cause in the first instance, and the effects of radiation and a nuclear winter in the second well, thats a weird one. A cockroach infestation is difficult to root out from beneath a cheap fitted kitchen, yes that doesnt make them Captain bloody Scarlet. The fact of the matter is that cockroaches arent even particularly good at surviving radiation Bactrocera oleae can take three times as many rads as your common or garden roach, but you dont see stand-up comedians making comparisons between David Bowie and a bunch of fruit flies. A better question would be why anyone else would want to survive a nuclear holocaust if this was the world left to them: various decrepit pop stars with cast iron constitutions, a selection of particularly tough insects and you. Where do we sign up for this version of the high life?
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