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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:24 PM
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Every day, there's a big black fly in my living room
Sounds like a little prop-plane flying by.

Every day, I open the window and shoo him out.

The next day, there's the little buzzbot again.

Is it the same fly every day? It's always just ONE guy (gal? I can't tell)
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:37 PM
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1. Ever read "Amityville Horror"?
You've got the same thing. Just a lot, lot slower.
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:38 PM
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2. destroy it. nt.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:39 PM
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3. Maybe it's in love with you.
You're being very inconsiderate of that fly's feelins. :(
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:41 PM
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5. sigh
I've already tried to fuck it four times, but it's fighting back. What's a guy to do?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:44 PM
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6. ...
:rofl:

Maybe it's playing 'hard to get'. :crazy:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:54 PM
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7. I could 'get' him/her
but even I'm not small enough to fuck a fly. And I used lube, too!
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:41 PM
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4. Do you live at 112 Ocean Ave.?
That may be your problem.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:33 PM
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23. I grew up about 10 miles from there.
the story was bullshit when I was a kid, and it's bullshit now.

I was a teenager when the book came out. We used to drive by and laugh.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 03:56 PM
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8. are your walls bleeding? Has Rod Steiger been lurking around?
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AnotherDreamWeaver Donating Member (917 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:18 PM
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9. Have you read 'Communication with Animals'?
Don't now recall the author, but he was asked to baby sit the German Shepard who played Rin Tin Tin. He had been asked to read to him every day. The story goes on to him having a fly that would visit his mirror every morning when he shaved. It came to be that he could call this fly and it would come land on his finger.

just saying.... Not sure what your fly is trying to tell you, but I have been having one land on my head while I write this.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:32 PM
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10. I lit some incense
sat down, cross-legged, and tried to commune with this fly. It was hard at first - he was somehow resistant.

But I sat patiently, ignored him buzzing around my ears, then he landed on my nose. Ah!! Close enough to my third-eye where we could really connect.

I asked him what he wanted. He said "dog shit".

I told him the dog shit was out in the back yard.

Yet he still buzzed around me until I took the broom from the fireplace tools rack and smacked him.

He's just a fucking fly.
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AnotherDreamWeaver Donating Member (917 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:06 PM
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15. Oops,
I missed the title of the book. Had it confused with another book, by a gal named Hiby. Conversations with Animals by Lydia Hiby
The book about Rin Tin Tin and the Fly is called "Kinship with All Life" by J. Allen Boone

Shucks, maybe the fly will reincarnate as something that will be more able to tell you what it had to say.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:10 PM
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18. Yeah, maybe he will
and then I'll commune with my intestinal bacteria and if they do their job well, they'll become my stomach bacteria. And if they do that exceptionally well, they'll become the bacteria that cause my acid reflux. Then I'll take a pill and kill them.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:34 PM
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11. It's blow flies
Have any rotting flesh in or about? Perhaps it's time to properly dispose of the body you stashed in the basement.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:35 PM
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12. Does it say anything... like "Help me" ?
Has Vincent Price or David Hedeson been lurking around?
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:35 PM
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13. Better your living room than in your chardonnay.
Like a death row pardon, two minutes too late, it would've been ironic.

Don't you think?
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:18 PM
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19. The fly only appears during the day
I try not start drinking before 1:00 pm.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:03 PM
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24. At least it's not a vampire fly.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:05 PM
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14. Interesting fly animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96QlGFzZuDw
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:08 PM
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16. clearly
there is a decaying corpse beneath the floorboards. Just sayin'.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:19 PM
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20. oh,that's just the ex... nothing to see here.
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:10 PM
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17. Change to a pair of jeans! nt
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:19 PM
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21. "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.

--Emily Dickinson
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 05:32 PM
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22. .
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:07 PM
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25. Aw... it's kind of cute from up close.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:13 PM
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26. I'll bet you say that to ALL the guys.
:yoiks:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:15 PM
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27. Only the guys with big ones.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:30 PM
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29. Who told you?
:blush:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:34 PM
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30. Uh oh... I thought you knew.
Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 06:35 PM by redqueen
A certain someone has been passing your pics out, claiming it's his. I thought he aksed permission first!

:yoiks:
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:40 PM
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32. DAMN that HypnoToad!
:grr:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:26 PM
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28. When was your last shower?
:hide:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 09:38 PM
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33. On my birthday, in June... as usual
why?
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yoyossarian Donating Member (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:40 PM
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31. Does it look anything like THIS???


They're pretty harmless once you clip their wings; ugly lil' fuckers, they are nuisances at best... unless ya let 'em get outta hand and actually RUN (RUIN?) your country...

Try givin' 'em a little love; nothing is more poisonous to these critters...

Another home remedy, but much more expensive: If you leave lots and lots of money out, they will eat til they explode.


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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 10:03 PM
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34. Our church seems to have an endless supply
there were even some on the altar on Sunday, like a sacrifice.

One of the pastors used to refer to himself as "Lord of the Flies".

Never could figure out where they all come from.
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