Published by Swiss James on 24 May 2007 at 03:49 pm
Superfly
The mercury is rising and the barometer is spinning like a comedy bow-tie as we move towards June.
Whilst I’m happy about the start of summer, flies and mosquitoes have lately started to populate the office and distract everyone from our mouse-clickery and technical wizardry.
Clearly something had to be done, and so it was with a happy heart that I recently found the natural way to keep the flying insect population down:
Electrified Tennis Racquets.
Infinitely more satisfying than a fly swatter, these things have a metal grid slung between the plastic casing, powered by 2 x AA batteries. When any kind of insect (or careless human finger) touches the grid, blue sparks fly out, there’s a glorious crackle, some light smoke, and a dead bug.
Needless to say, the office is now completely pest-free, and when one does appear, there’s a mad scramble of people looking to claim the scalp. We’re keeping score (mosquitoes count double, the evil little biters) and whoever is victorious at the end of the week wins, umm, well they just win.
On the prowl
Another one in the eye for the Buddhists!
Dell Latitudes. You guys must be working for the US government….
ooh i got to get me one of them bad boys.
So animal cruelty is cool in China then? When can I come?
If you ever consider buying me a present, you’ve just found the perfect summer gift.
Joking aside, before I got one of those, I would spend hours with a rolled up newspaper hopelessly trying to swat an annoying mosquito. It’s hard when they are still, impossible when they are in mid air. But with those electric rackets, BINGO! By the way, if you keep the power on after you swat them they eventually go “pop” and die, but if you release the power quickly you just stun them long enough to flush them down the toilet.
who’s joking? i want one! i wonder which would be the better way to go, being fried till you go pop, or being stunned and then flushed down the toilet by some big bald fucker mumbling “suck my blood will you, eh?”?
We’ve been through this- I’m not big, it was water retention.
I tell you though WoAi, if you manage to take your finger off the trigger before they’ve stopped sparking and smoking, you’ve got a lot more self-control than me!
Yes James, we all know you are “big boned”.
The reason I take my finger off is because I hate that popping sound and also batteries cost money so why waste more electricity than you need to. The problem occurs when they regain consciousness before I get to the toilet and then we have to start the game all over again!