standard puzzle common word spoiler

[birdy]

I'm afraid I would have to hire someone else to reprogram them, partly because I am a technological dunce, and partly because I couldn't get close enough to the bug.

[Scouser1952]

Thanks Birdy, just doing todays standard - acre I had missed.
Never seen oviduct, perhaps I’m reading the wrong books.

Tony

[birdy]

Thanks Birdy, just doing todays standard - acre I had missed.
Never seen oviduct, perhaps I’m reading the wrong books.

Tony

Acre does come up quite often - not that I knew it was in that day's puzzle.  But even if I had been playing the game, I probably would have missed it.

[TRex]

Since this topic was discussing cockroaches, you can't not know this:

It’s official: Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life

[birdy]

But somehow termites don't scare me as much as cockroaches, even if they do considerable damage.

DNA is certainly rearranging the way we think about biological relationships.