Re: Check in

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 5/14/2020 12:20 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 5/14/2020 9:56 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 5/14/2020 10:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 5/12/2020 5:13 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>> On 5/11/2020 10:58 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 8:58:18 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/4/2020 1:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How's everybody doing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a gnat fly in my mouth the other day.  He tasted like mosquito
>>>>>> repellent.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HACK!  HACK!  HACK!
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's see now -----
>>>>>
>>>>> If you had a choice between eating a gnat that tasted like mosquito
>>>>> repellent and a green horse fly that tasted like horseshit
>>>>>
>>>>> Which would you choose?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry Bob, I just couldn't resist :-D
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jim,  Your resistance was futile..................
>>>>
>>>> Oh and Bob, think about it!! There has to be another choice.  Not!! :-)
>>>>
>>>> ROFLOL
>>>
>>>
>>> My place is surrounded by citrus and alfalfa, so gnats are a regular
>>> hazard.  Mosquitos for some reason not so much.  Several of my
>>> neighbors have horses as well, but no horse flies either.  Never
>>> heard of a green horse fly, but we have a big black one that I see
>>> out on the river fairly often in the summer time.  They will but a
>>> nasty bite on you, and are hard to hit with anything.  One anglers I
>>> used to knew kept a badminton racket in his boat for taking them out.
>>>
>>> Anyway, not the first gnat I've wound up eating or spitting out.
>>> Just the first one that tasted like deet.  FYI:  Mosquito repellent
>>> seems to have no affect on them.  I tried back when I first moved to
>>> this place back in 2005/06.
>>
>> Many Many years ago when I was the Maintenance Supervisor for a Plastic
>> Extrusion Company I had a very small office near the shop.
>> (maybe 11' x 9')Â  One summer there was this standard housefly that got
>> into the office.  Since he was young he was very fast and I could not
>> get him.  Buzz buzz buzz around and then would hide for a while.
>> Myself in and out of the office all day.  Drove me nuts for 3 days.  Now
>> the fly is 3 days older and getting slower.  He sat down on my desk and
>> I very quickly reached out and caught him in my hand.
>> Yahoo!!  Gotcha sucker!!
>>
>> Due to the torture he bestowed on me for 3 frickin days there had to
>> be some appropriate punishment that was needed for this now captured fly.
>> So I pulled off a bit of Scotch Tape and gently stuck him to it.  His
>> legs were wiggling and his wings were trying to get loose but the sticky
>> Scotch Tape adhesive would not let him go.  I walked him out to the
>> shipping dock and gently stuck the tape with the fly to the floor.  He
>> continued to try and get free but he couldn't!!  I then went over to
>> the walk-behind forklift and positioned the left front wheel in line
>> with the fly.  I the slowly (ever so slowly) moved the the 4,750lb
>> forklift forward.  Once the tire rolled over the fly I went back and
>> forth a couple of time just make sure he was DEAD.  I then pealed the
>> Scotch Tape with squished fly off the floor and returned to my office
>> where I pinned it to my bulletin board.  I did not have another fly
>> enter my office for the rest of the summer.
>>
>> Wow, just typing that, made me feel so good!!  LOL
>>
>> I hope you all enjoyed reading my little fly story!!  :-)
>> You may now resume your normal activities................
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>
> Did you cackle and rub your hand together as you dreamed up your revenge?
>
> A few years ago I tried to grow a winter garden.  Black birds and
> grackles were eating my seedlings as fast as they would sprout.  I
> looked them up.  There is actually an international treaty protecting
> both of them, but there is a clause in that treaty where I can
> exterminate them with extreme prejudice when they are causing
> substantial harm to crops.  I broke out an air rifle and spent the next
> several weeks shooting anything with wings that came near my garden. I'd
> go pick them up and toss them in the garbage, but one day I popped two
> crackles  and a customer called.  Those two grackles got left at the end
> of the rows of broccoli for several days, and as long as they laid there
> not another grackle came near my garden.
>
> FYI, If a grackle happens to bend down towards you a properly tuned .25
> Marauder will put a 25.4 grain pellet though his beak and exit his
> asshole at 30 yards without hardly slowing down.
>
> P.S.  I am sure when you were a kid somebody said they had a
> Benjamin/Sheridan/Daisy/ etc that they could pump up a hundred times and
> it would shoot like a .22.  They were full of shit.  LOL.  My .25
> Marauder develops about half the energy of a .22 long rifle.  There are
> air rifles that develop as much energy (or more) as a 45 acp, but they
> sure aren't doing it with a .177 caliber 7 grain flat nosed cast lead
> badminton birdie.  My Marauder is charged to 3000 PSI with an SCBA
> compressor or SCBA tank and gets 28 shots at a little over 900FPS before
> velocity starts to drop, and I go refill it.  Its an awesome medium
> range game bird killer.
>


PPS:  When I was a kid my Daisy 880 did a number on horse flies.  2
pumps with a steel BB would take one off the side of an aluminum drop
tank without leaving a dent.  It would leave a pretty healthy dent on
the side of the feed shed though.