Talk:Roach clip

is this article really necessary?
This article demonstrates that there is no such thing as a "roach clip" (save for that novelty item listed at the end as an aside), just everyday household objects (most of which have their own entries) that are used to hold roaches. But the fact that I have used a phone book for a doorstop does not mean that phone books should be listed in the "doorstop" article. There are plenty of things put to uses their designers did not intend (CDs as hanging ornaments, store receipts as bookmarks, shoe heels as hammers, glass bottles as rolling pins, &c) and they're not singled out for wikification. 165.91.64.125 (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2008 (UTC)RKH


 * I kind to have to agree. Does this mean I have paraphernalia in my soldering kit? eg. "aligator clips".  Some might call them roach clips.  66.114.93.6 (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to merge Amish clip into this article
According to the Amish clip article, it's a type of roach clip. I thought it would fit as a section or paragraph in this article. ColtsScore 00:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub?
Still? I don't think so. It could use wikifying, but its got sufficient detail. How much more can be said?

Articles for deletion/Roach clip
The result of the discussion was to keep. Bearian 23:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

cockroach clip/holder
I was once shown in a lab working with insects that a "roach clip" was the thing they use to mount cockroaches, in that the clip was designed for this purpose not to damage the cockroach being held in place. Those things could have gotten onto the streets, and perhaps that's where the name "roach clip", and thus a "joint" turning into a "roach" come from. After all, why didn't it be called a "joint clip"? 66.114.93.6 (talk) 20:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

hair/hat decoration
In the early 1980s (and possibly the late '70s), alligator clips attached to leather straps adorned with glass beads and feathers used to be worn in girls' hair or clipped onto a Fedora. This fashion statement was apparently a way to disguise a roach clip, which I (and probably a number of other people) didn't realize at the time. I want to put this in the article, but I can't remember what, if anything, this particular version of the device is called. (I also had at least one source to cite, which I seem to have misplaced.) B7T (talk) 09:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)