Pickles by Brian Crane for September 11, 2019

better find a flyswatter, Sylvia, if Earl isn’t willing to borrow the newspaper he’s reading

Odiferous little fellow!

I’d say swat it with the newspaper, but I’ve seen how insubstantial a modern newspaper is and I think the fly might win that fight.

Flying insect spray works much better!

I was told to use hair spray. The idea was it is sticky and would quickly immobilize the spider or fly. NOT SO!

This could be a new business idea. Small household drones that spray smell goods ! or hunt down flies ;-)

I have swatters all over…just ready for the dive bombers…

so the arc is going to involve the fly instead of Opal needing to have an eye exam (see Monday and Tuesday’s strips)?

Earl, we learned this yesterday…..beat it to death with a National Geographic Mag.

I have never understood how anyone can think of that chemical stench as “freshening” the air; it’s just polluting it.

All of them are vile, and most fall somewhere between “paper mill” and “hog feeder lot” on the pleasant aroma scale.

Hairspray works really well, as long as the fly isn’t a smoker.

Booger… used to mean a piece of nasal mucus.. and only flies when flicked from your finger

Kind of like teaching “the world to sing in perfect harmony,” but without a Coke.

In my house it’s murder, death, kill with my sneaker, slipper or whatever is on my foot. On the wall if low down enough same goes. Too high up for me my vacuum and poles come out. Either way DEAD MEAT! AS I HATE ALL BUGS.

The verb is “stinking,” Earl. One of marketing’s little jokes, like calling a temporary hair treatment a “permanent”, is the idea of calling a cheap chemical odor an “air freshener”.

Ingenious new fragrance disperser! Does Glade know about this method?

So..a fun..and easy… way to get a fly, is use a vacuum. No, not the floor model for anyone who was going to ask. You can suck up a lot of flies fast with one!

New marketing opportunity.