# Geckos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633 "2013-04-13T21:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/21 "2013-04-14T21:13:37Z")
> [@boomerwang](#): > > I used to like geckos. Thought they were cute. > > Now they are constantly shitting on my bed and kitchen table. And on me. It’s like they aim for specific targets. > > Dirty little bastards :mad: Perhaps it’s time to change your insurance company? ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/22 "2013-04-14T22:42:12Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > Not to be too intrusive but are you male or female? Female. Not that it really matters though, I’d guess that a guy who got gecko guts splattered on him while having a happy moment would probably not have fun time in the tub for a while as well. Its kinda hard to relax when you are constantly looking at the fan to be sure you won’t get splattered again. Besides that bad memory, I do like geckos. They are cute and they make cute sounds and they eat bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/23 "2013-04-14T23:58:56Z")
> [@digs](#): > > . . . **“No time for that now, Billy. We’ve got to find Betty!”** > \*-- every other Jack Armstrong episode ever \* > > (hmmm, I’d propose an old time radio drinking game, but we’d all die of alcohol poisoning) “C’mon, Billy!” “Gosh all hemlock!” “Oh, I’m scared!” “Don’t worry, these simple savages are too primitive to comprehend our flashlights. Why, we must seem like gods to them. Just smile and trust to your natural racial superiority.” Okay…I fudged the last one…a little… (Actually, I fell into the show from having read a lot of Talbot Mundy novels, and then having learned that he was one of the show’s writers!) ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/24 "2013-04-15T00:05:55Z")
We used to have the tiny baby ones. They were almost transparent and lightening fast! Our cats would chase them. Now that we’re bug free, all our geckos and frogs have packed up and moved too. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/25 "2013-04-15T04:51:52Z")
> [@digs](#): > > (hmmm, I’d propose an old time radio drinking game, but we’d all die of alcohol poisoning) Ah, but it wouldn’t just be Jack Armstrong. We’d listen to an assortment of old radio shows and take a nip every time we heard: “I’ll just duck into this supply closet and… Up, Up, And Awaaaaay!” “He’s about to get a visit from… _The Shadow_.” or “His companion, the lovely Margo Lane” (or just that chilling laugh that Orson Welles did so well) “Well, you certainly took care of him, Kato.” “Now, Gracie…” “Don’t you _‘Now, Gracie’_ me, George!” And every time Jack Benny said _“Wellllll…”_ ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/26 "2013-04-15T11:27:59Z")
We have Tokay geckos living inside our house, along with Jingjok geckos. (We’ve always thought the Tokays sang “tokay” and the Jingjoks “jingjok.”) My wife is very annoyed by their defecations but, “taking what comes and choosing it,” tells us that a house with Tokays is a happy house! I like to think our house lizards are paying their way – I once saw a Jingjok near my bedroom with a newly-captured scorpion in its mouth! We often hear the Tokay mating call, but always from our outside walls. The Tokays living inside our house seem more reluctant to draw attention to themselves. We also have three other lizard species living outside near our house, including chameleon. I think these are all in Suborder Iguania, rather than the Suborder Scleroglossa which includes geckos. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/27 "2013-04-15T17:31:29Z")
On a trip to Haiti we spent 5 days at a village in the mountains, completely “off the grid” - no running water, no electricity, mud huts, all natural. Never saw a reptile of any kind (tarantulas yes, lizards & snakes no). Our last night on the island we spent at a hotel in Port-Au-Prince to make sure we could get to the airport on time the next morning. It was over run with geckos! Dozens running/climbing around pretty much everywhere one looked. I thought the ones on the wall at the check in desk were decorations until several started moving. Probably not coincidentally, we also saw a rather fat snake on one of the concrete walkways. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/28 "2013-04-16T18:51:08Z")
> [@boomerwang](#): > > I used to like geckos. Thought they were cute. > > Now they are constantly shitting on my bed and kitchen table. And on me. It’s like they aim for specific targets. > > Dirty little bastards :mad: Am I the only one who initially assumed the OP was hallucinating? and what a crappy thing to hallucinate, no pun intended… ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/29 "2013-04-16T21:10:47Z")
I have geckos in the house. They are a lot of fun to watch. They play, fight and make out. If I have a cold drink sitting on my desk they will come drink the condensation. At night when they are on the window and there is a backlight you can see the eggs inside the females. I like geckos. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/30 "2013-04-16T21:45:41Z")
In the 70’s my grandfather used to get them in his house. He called them streakers, so when he saw one he’d yell “Streaker!” Us kids would run to the window thinking there was a naked person running down the street. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633.md?page=1)