What's the best way to kill flies?
PAM.
FLESH eating plants?
Sticky tape?
Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
Swatter?
Spiders?
Fly eating reptile?
Napalm
Have I forgotten anything?
I was thinking of going the plant method as the spray is a bit crap. There's always more around. The others are too expensive, too
time consuming or too dangerous. :-)
PAM.
Karen Hayward-King
wrote:
The sticky tape thing works quite well...though the look is not
terrible ascetic. :-)
--
Karen Hayward-King
'But you tell me over & over & over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction'
Barry McGuire 1965
Keith Rodgers
PAM. says...
> Spray?
> FLESH eating plants?
> Sticky tape?
> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> Swatter?
> Spiders?
> Fly eating reptile?
> Napalm
>
>
> Have I forgotten anything?
Vacumn cleaner (requires stalking and fills in time which PAM. needs at
the moment by the amount of his posts) <g>
--
Keith Rodgers
Opinions expressed here are exclusively my own.
Nicolaas Hawkins
I find that two blocks of 3x2 is quite effective (watch out for your
thumb)
PAM.
"Keith Rodgers" <keith....@NOJUNKmca.govt.nz> wrote in message
> Vacumn cleaner (requires stalking and fills in time which PAM. needs at
> the moment by the amount of his posts) <g>
Hey, what can I say. I'm at work and the boss is away :-)
ACtually, the hoover is a good method. Still keep coming back though.
PAM.
Nicholas Sherlock
round fly swatter like projectile (On a string). It just whacks the flies,
the flies don't squash and they just drop down off the window. Great fun! On
the packet it says the website is http://www.amazingflygun.com
Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
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Nicholas Sherlock
> In article <SF9K9.797$Q11....@news.xtra.co.nz>, Junk...@Fishnchips.com
> PAM. says...
> > Spray?
> > FLESH eating plants?
> > Sticky tape?
> > Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> > Swatter?
> > Spiders?
> > Fly eating reptile?
> > Napalm
> >
> >
> > Have I forgotten anything?
>
> Vacumn cleaner (requires stalking and fills in time which PAM. needs at
> the moment by the amount of his posts) <g>
> --
I love that method! It kills the fly and removes the body in one quick step
:). Some of them cling on to the wall quite strong though.
Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
DrinksCabSav
Get a life - give up religion!!!
=============================
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
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If you mean in the house - Boil some mint. They don't come in then, so no
need to kill and have corpses everywhere.
Jay
"Keith Rodgers" <keith....@NOJUNKmca.govt.nz> wrote in message
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> PAM. says...
> > Spray?
> > FLESH eating plants?
> > Sticky tape?
> > Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> > Swatter?
> > Spiders?
> > Fly eating reptile?
> > Napalm
> >
> >
> > Have I forgotten anything?
>
> Vacumn cleaner (requires stalking and fills in time which PAM. needs at
> the moment by the amount of his posts) <g>
I like doing that too. Although napalm would probably be more effective.
Jay
Jay
"Nicholas Sherlock" <n_she...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I got an "Amazing fly gun". It's got a wicked spring on it and launches a
> round fly swatter like projectile (On a string). It just whacks the flies,
> the flies don't squash and they just drop down off the window. Great fun!
On
> the packet it says the website is http://www.amazingflygun.com
Looks like a parked domain.
Shame I was going to get one to whack the flatmate with.
Jay
Dave
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
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> FLESH eating plants?
> Sticky tape?
> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> Swatter?
> Spiders?
> Fly eating reptile?
> Napalm
>
>
> Have I forgotten anything?
No one seems to have told you the oldest trick in the book. You can keep
them out of the kitchen - the worst place for them, quite easily.
Just place a bucket of Pooh in the lounge. Just put the lid on now and then
and start again.
DW
new...@parydyse.not.nx
<kiwi...@yellowsub.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:16:51 +1300, "PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Spray?
>>FLESH eating plants?
>>Sticky tape?
>>Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
>>Swatter?
>>Spiders?
>>Fly eating reptile?
>>Napalm
>>
>>
>>Have I forgotten anything?
>>
>>I was thinking of going the plant method as the spray is a bit crap. There's always more around. The others are too expensive, too
>>time consuming or too dangerous. :-)
>
>The sticky tape thing works quite well...though the look is not
>terrible ascetic. :-)
As any aesthete will confirm, particularly an ascetic aesthete.
Southern Kiwi
news:SF9K9.797$Q11....@news.xtra.co.nz...
> FLESH eating plants?
> Sticky tape?
> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> Swatter?
> Spiders?
> Fly eating reptile?
> Napalm
12 gauge...............
--
Southern Kiwi
southern_kiwi@*spamsucks*hotmail.com
Annemarie
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
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flies.
I have been stunned how many it has caught. It looks nice too.
This is the second year we have had it, last year it didn't do so well. You
have to put the pot in another pot and keep the water level very even.
Needs plenty of light. The pitchers on ours are now about 12" high.
Sometimes the flies come in too fast for the plant though and I just open
the windows and let them out, better than dead ones everywhere. :o)
T A R T
wrote:
>Spray?
>FLESH eating plants?
>Sticky tape?
>Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
>Swatter?
>Spiders?
>Fly eating reptile?
>Napalm
>
>
>Have I forgotten anything?
Antibiotics?
just kidding!!
8-P
--
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves, Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
-- Billie Holliday
Chrissy
Shift to a high rise building - something over the third or forth flour and
you do not get flies. A stray one or two may come up the lift but
will soon die. They do not like flying high above the ground apparently.
The other option is move south - there are fewer the further south
you go - way down south they don't have them - maybe they freeze
there.
Chrissy.
John Doe
wrote:
... or a more 'refined' version is to hang a large Agee jar off a
shrub, tree, or stake in your garden (preferably one each near every
boundary fence with your neighbors), punch a hole in the lid a little
larger than diameter of a blowfly, put an ounce or so of chopped liver
or similar fly attractant in jar, and watch the flytrap collect
victims for months plus (can add water to drown the buggers but found
that rain gets in gradually and does it automatically)
Avoid piling fresh lawn clippings or other organic material close to
house, that's where most of those 'clingy' little house fly b'stards
seem to come from (offer your waste to neighboring keen gardeners
during hot summer months, hehe!)
And finally, don't move to the South Island, there's enough flys down
here without any more BMW driving ones from north of the Bombay Hills.
Jay
the time my hand reached its perch and I only succeded in whacking 3 finger
nails on the cupboard door. Ouch. Several expletives later and I was back on
the hunt. I've yet to track the bugger down but mark my words that bugs
cards are marked.
Jay
Brian Dooley
Aren't you confusing it with the way you fix camels?
That isn't very painful so long as you keep your thumbs out of
the way.
--
Brian Dooley
Wellington New Zealand
Sarns
Sarns
new...@parydyse.not.nx
Flies in the face of commonsense, Brian.
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
As, doubtless, are your finger nails.
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
>I attempted to backhand a fly this morning. It was a thousand miles away by
Your header begins with " flies revenge..."
*A* flies?
Surely it should be "Some flies" or, possibly "Many flies"?
Flies in the face of good English, y'know!
(Your flies unzipped.)
Steve B
No: that should be "Your files unzipped".
And how do you time flies?
Time flies like an arrow.
Serious question: How do the inventors of odourless fly-killer know
the *flies* can't smell it?
Serious etymological question: Why is a flier (aviator) spelt
differently from a flyer (advertisement on a small sheet of paper)?
Steve B.
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
>On 14 Dec 2002, I vada'd that had trolled into nz.general and left a bona
>messagette; to which I have responded as follows:
>
>> Your header begins with " flies revenge..."
>>
>> *A* flies?
"A" is singular, "Flies" is the plural of fly, not the possessive.
>>
>> Surely it should be "Some flies" or, possibly "Many flies"?
>>
>> Flies in the face of good English, y'know!
>
>Not at all.
>
>Good English does NOT *require* the use of any adjectives.
(Polite cough)
But good English does require your header to begin with "A Fly's
revenge..", the fundmental point that has escaped you in your
follow-up.
Sarns
"Col" <Col.@thebar.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:10:29 GMT, new...@parydyse.not.nx wrote:
>
I feel an american programme coming on
WHEN GOOD FLIES TURN BADDDDDDDDDD
Sarns
Wee Willy Wonka
>Spray? (etc)
Moistened dish cloth. Swats em without squashing em. But ya gotta
make sure to squash em afterwards or they get back up a few minutes
later.
willy
S.C.
Why kill them?
Catch them alive then proceed to
http://digital-eel.com/sirl/flyplane.htm
Hours of fun for all the family!!
Sarns
> The Moral of the Story: Don't fly off the handle when you're full of
shit!!
LMFAOOOOOOOO that brightened me day ;-)
Sarns
Aum
> What's the best way to kill flies?
> Spray?
> FLESH eating plants?
> Sticky tape?
> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> Swatter?
> Spiders?
> Fly eating reptile?
> Napalm
>
> Have I forgotten anything?
Close your mouth when they fly in, squash them gently with your teeth or
tongue, and spit 'em out.
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
>On 14 Dec 2002, I vada'd that had trolled into nz.general and left a bona
>messagette; to which I have responded as follows:
>
>> But good English does require your header to begin with "A Fly's
>> revenge..", the fundmental point that has escaped you in your
>> follow-up.
>
>No articles - neither the definite nor the indefinite article are
>*required*.
>
>Indeed, there are many incidences where those articles serve in practice
>merely to render the text harder to read quickly.
>
>Good English is uncluttered, and unverbose.
And demonstrates the basic ability to differentiate between the
singular and plural noun!
You still don't get it, do you? Can't you understand that "A flies
revenge" as you have written it is linguistic nonsense?
Sarns
"Wee Willy Wonka" <w...@freenet.co.nz> wrote in message
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*Dame Edna vomit sound*
LMFAOOOO
Sarns
John Cawston
I've always been a bit concerned about this method. One has to be
concerned about a camel with experience of the technique. I think I'd
rather try it with the back end of a long handled trenching spade or
better still, delegate.
JC
Jay
"Steve B" <s.b...@nospam-iecho.co.nz> wrote in message
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Fuck my English, what about my sore fingers?
Unsympathetic bastards the lot of you.
Jay
> Steve B.
Nicolaas Hawkins
I really wouldn't know, Brian, never having "fixed" a camel - or tried
to.
Sounds like there's a tale here. Do tell ...
Enkidu
>On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:33:33 +1300, "Jay" <QPR@***nospam***xtra.co.nz>
>wrote:
>
>>I attempted to backhand a fly this morning. It was a thousand miles away by
>>the time my hand reached its perch and I only succeded in whacking 3 finger
>>nails on the cupboard door. Ouch. Several expletives later and I was back on
>>the hunt. I've yet to track the bugger down but mark my words that bugs
>>cards are marked.
>>
>Your header begins with " flies revenge..."
>
>*A* flies?
>
>Surely it should be "Some flies" or, possibly "Many flies"?
>
>Flies in the face of good English, y'know!
>
>(Your flies unzipped.)
No, no, no, no!
It should be "A fly's revenge".
The revenge of a single fly. (Single in the sense of "one and only
one" of course).
Also "Your fly's undone". Short for "Your fly is undone".
Cheers,
Cliff
--
The Nats held a Party and no one came.
Enkidu
>
>You still don't get it, do you? Can't you understand that "A flies
>revenge" as you have written it is linguistic nonsense?
>
trial has flown the country after the accused X threatened her with
physical violence after being found guilty".
Jason M
wrote:
>Zapper
Is this a zapper with a UV light inside a couple of wire cages at 1000
volts potential, where the flies go Phhfffffffffzzzzzzzttttt
or is it a zapper with a radar guided laser that shoots any moving
object?
Joy
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
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> FLESH eating plants?
> Sticky tape?
> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> Swatter?
> Spiders?
> Fly eating reptile?
> Napalm
>
>
> Have I forgotten anything?
>
> I was thinking of going the plant method as the spray is a bit crap.
There's always more around. The others are too expensive, too
> time consuming or too dangerous. :-)
>
Those sprays annoy our breathing and I resorted to hanging strips on the
back door. It works a treat, they seem to prefer coming in that way ya see.
The strips are about $10 at the hardware store.
Joy
Jason M
>But good English does require your header to begin with "A Fly's
>revenge..", the fundmental point that has escaped you in your
>follow-up.
In accordance with Usenet Spelling Flame Rule #13, I am impelled to
complain about your word "fundmental", for which you incur a penalty
of 2 points, since it was more likely to be a typo than ignorance.
The person who created the heading "A flies revenge" incurs 25 points.
Steve B
"Biggles Flies Undone".
famous apocryphal title in the wartime aviator series.
"What's your maximum speed?"
"About 30 miles an hour"
"What happens if you run into a 40 mph wind?"
"Hmmm, never thought of that. I suppose we shall have to go
backwards."
I remember that, for some reason. Biggles talking to two young chaps
who had the brilliant idea of the "everyman" aircraft; the Model T for
the air.
According to Biggles; Henry Ford tried for an "air flivver" too; and
they kept crashing. I've never checked the veracity of that.
Anyone know?
Steve B.
Nicolaas Hawkins
If it is, then I'm going back to wearing my tinfoil hat! 8-)
Hellpp!! Muuummmmmeeeeeeeeee!
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
Mea culpa.
(Wanders off, scratching bum pensively.)
new...@parydyse.not.nx
wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:16:30 +1300, Enkidu <enk...@cliffp.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:10:29 GMT, new...@parydyse.not.nx wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:33:33 +1300, "Jay" <QPR@***nospam***xtra.co.nz>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I attempted to backhand a fly this morning. It was a thousand miles away by
>>>>the time my hand reached its perch and I only succeded in whacking 3 finger
>>>>nails on the cupboard door. Ouch. Several expletives later and I was back on
>>>>the hunt. I've yet to track the bugger down but mark my words that bugs
>>>>cards are marked.
>>>>
>>>Your header begins with " flies revenge..."
>>>
>>>*A* flies?
>>>
>>>Surely it should be "Some flies" or, possibly "Many flies"?
>>>
>>>Flies in the face of good English, y'know!
>>>
>>>(Your flies unzipped.)
>>
>>No, no, no, no!
>>
>>It should be "A fly's revenge".
>>
>>The revenge of a single fly. (Single in the sense of "one and only
>>one" of course).
>>
>>Also "Your fly's undone". Short for "Your fly is undone".
>>
>"Biggles Flies Undone".
>
>famous apocryphal title in the wartime aviator series.
>
"General flies back to front"
Famous wartime newspaper headline.
Nicolaas Hawkins
<small, strangled voice>
Oh, Puh-LEEZE! I've just had dinner!
...excuse me, I think I need to talk to HUUEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Jay
"Jason M" <jma...@very.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The person who created the heading "A flies revenge" incurs 25 points.
Cool!
Brian Dooley
Unless you were less than wholly successful the first time you
shouldn't have an experienced camel.
And have you read any of the Mamur Zapt novels?
--
Brian Dooley
Wellington New Zealand
Brian Dooley
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:10:29 GMT, new...@parydyse.not.nx wrote:
A more elegant and time honoured way to say it is to say, "Ah,
the Star's in the East, I see."
Brian Dooley
(Steve B) wrote:
snip---
>Serious etymological question: Why is a flier (aviator) spelt
>differently from a flyer (advertisement on a small sheet of paper)?
Chambers 7th ed 1990 accepts both for everything.
Jay
"Brian Dooley" <bri...@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
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The cage is open but the beast is asleep.
Jay
John Cawston
No. But they look like fun.
JC
Alan Brennan
<new...@parydyse.not.nx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:28:18 -0800, Karen Hayward-King
> <kiwi...@yellowsub.net> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:16:51 +1300, "PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>FLESH eating plants?
> >>Sticky tape?
> >>Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
> >>Swatter?
> >>Spiders?
> >>Fly eating reptile?
> >>Napalm
> >>
> >>
> >>Have I forgotten anything?
> >>
> >>I was thinking of going the plant method as the spray is a bit crap.
There's always more around. The others are too expensive, too
> >>time consuming or too dangerous. :-)
> >
> >terrible ascetic. :-)
>
> As any aesthete will confirm, particularly an ascetic aesthete.
And if they were so high you needed to jump to put them up, there would be
an athletic ascertic aesthetic effect.
Enkidu
<bri...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >I find that two blocks of 3x2 is quite effective (watch out for your
>>> >thumb)
>>>
>>> Aren't you confusing it with the way you fix camels?
>>>
>>> That isn't very painful so long as you keep your thumbs out of
>>> the way.
>>
>>I've always been a bit concerned about this method. One has to be
>>concerned about a camel with experience of the technique. I think I'd
>>rather try it with the back end of a long handled trenching spade or
>>better still, delegate.
>
>Unless you were less than wholly successful the first time you
>shouldn't have an experienced camel.
>
some can go for 8 days. How do you change a 5 day camel into an 8 day
camel? Wait till it's drinking then creep up behind it with the two
blocks of wood.....
Enkidu
wrote:
>Spray?
>FLESH eating plants?
>Sticky tape?
>Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
>Swatter?
>Spiders?
>Fly eating reptile?
>Napalm
>
>
>Have I forgotten anything?
>
Chopsticks, like the Karate Kid.
Nicolaas Hawkins
Oh dear, Alan, you really should try to get out more....
PAM.
"DrinksCabSav" <victo...@subdimension.com> wrote in message
> If you mean in the house - Boil some mint. They don't come in then, so no
> need to kill and have corpses everywhere.
Really? Does one spread it anywhere? Just boil until dry? Just boil for 10 mins?
PAM.
PAM.
"Jason M" <jma...@very.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> Is this a zapper with a UV light inside a couple of wire cages at 1000
> volts potential, where the flies go Phhfffffffffzzzzzzzttttt
>
> or is it a zapper with a radar guided laser that shoots any moving
> object?
>
It's the first one.
Harry Hill - Better told than written
There's a fly flying through the air. As it flies towards the zapper it has a heart attack. The momentum of it's flight carries the
fly forwards towards the zapper and Phhfffffffffzzzzzzzttttt, the zapper starts it little heart again.
What are the chances of that happening eh?
:)
PAM.
Alan Brennan
"Nicolaas Hawkins" <rap...@top.net.nz> wrote in message
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I admit it. My athletic ascetic aesthetic's pathetic.
Alan Brennan
"PAM." <Junk...@Fishnchips.com> wrote in message
>
Nicolaas Hawkins
AUGH!
Ok, I'll play your funny game ...
Your athletic ascetic aesthetic may be pathetic, but is it peripatetic?
(Who needs an emetic?)
Alan Brennan
A peripatetic pathetic athletic ascetic aesthetic? I''m a skeptic.
>
> (Who needs an emetic?)
A bulimic?
Brian Dooley
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:10:29 +0000 (UTC), Nicolaas Hawkins
<rap...@top.net.nz> wrote:
>Brian Dooley wrote in news:ktukvu4jcfj4l7rbi...@4ax.com:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:18:33 +0000 (UTC), Nicolaas Hawkins
>> <rap...@top.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>>>PAM. wrote in news:SF9K9.797$Q11....@news.xtra.co.nz:
>>>
>>>> Spray?
>>>> FLESH eating plants?
>>>> Sticky tape?
>>>> Zapper (reminded of classic Harry Hill joke)?
>>>> Swatter?
>>>> Spiders?
>>>> Fly eating reptile?
>>>> Napalm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have I forgotten anything?
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of going the plant method as the spray is a bit
>>>> crap. There's always more around. The others are too expensive,
>>>> too time consuming or too dangerous. :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>>I find that two blocks of 3x2 is quite effective (watch out for your
>>>thumb)
>>
>> Aren't you confusing it with the way you fix camels?
>>
>> That isn't very painful so long as you keep your thumbs out of
>> the way.
>
>I really wouldn't know, Brian, never having "fixed" a camel - or tried
>to.
>
>Sounds like there's a tale here. Do tell ...
Try 'The Camel of Destruction' by Michael Pearce.
Freely available at you local library.
--