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On 5/15/2020 7:35 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 5/15/2020 5:57 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>
>> On 5/14/2020 7:59 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>  > On 5/14/2020 9:27 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>  >> On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 12:56:13 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>>
>>  >>> 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')  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
>>  >>
>>  >> Hey Les,
>>  >>
>>  >> Did you ever think about --------
>>  >>
>>  >> If you tear the wings off of a fly. would you then call it a walk ?
>>  >>
>>  >> or
>>  >>
>>  >> Did you hear about the fly that entered a cow's ear and ended up
>> in the milk pail the next morning?
>>  >> It went in one ear and out the udder.
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Funny Stuff Jim!!!!
>>  >
>>  > Thanks!!
>>
>> I heard about some scientist from New York who deiced to do some pure
>> research on flies.  That caught one buzzing around their lab, set in
>> on the counter and yelled, "JUMP!" as they slammed their hands on the
>> counter around the fly.  Of course it jumped up and flew away.  They
>> scrambled over all over the lab until they finally caught the fly.
>> One of them carefully pulled a leg off the fly, and they set it on the
>> counter.  They yelled, "JUMP!" as they slammed their hands on the
>> counter around the fly.  Of course it jumped up and flew away.  They
>> scrambled over all over the lab until they finally caught the fly
>> again.   One of them carefully pulled another leg off the fly, and
>> they set it on the counter.  They yelled, "JUMP!" as they slammed
>> their hands on the counter around the fly.  Of course it jumped up and
>> flew away.
>>
>> Pretty soon they had gotten down to the last leg.  One of them
>> carefully pulled the last leg off the fly.  They yelled, "JUMP!" as
>> they slammed their hands on the counter around the fly, and the fly
>> just sat there. They tried it again. They yelled, "JUMP!" as they
>> slammed their hands on the counter around the fly, and the fly just
>> sat there.  After a third time they decided they had enough data to
>> write up a conclusion.  A fly with no legs can not hear.
>
>
> Did anybody get hooked on the Breaking Bad series??  If you did or
> didn't there was this one scene in the Walter's sparkling clean lab
> were a fly made it in some how.  Walter takes on the challenge of trying
> to kill the fly.  When I saw it the first, second, third time
> and beyond I almost wet myself laughing.  It brings back memories
> of the fly in my office.  Anyhow, here is the YouTube clip.
> It is not the whole fly scene, just the first part.  I think just
> before it went to commercial. You will hopefully appreciate the
> frustration.  Be sure to go full screen to get the full effect!! :-)
>
> Enjoy!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZDir8UwfQs
>
> Les

Here are few other clips that I found.
Sorry I don't know they are in the proper order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGzxat5KgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Q1sB8oUtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-UVBmqIo4




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