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Old 25-06-2003, 08:30 PM
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In article , Essjay001
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Mike wrote:
In article ,
Drakanthus writes

I'm fed up cleaning fly corpses off the windscreen of my car -


You would have thought that they would have learnt by now wouldn't
you?


The problem with your theory is, those that learn don't live to tell the
tale.



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Old 25-06-2003, 08:31 PM
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:07:47 +0000 (UTC), "Essjay001"
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David Hill wrote:
".........Sorry but I cannot believe thay(?) you have a horse that
flys, unless of course your real name is Harry Potter...."

What a foal I am. must be lack of sleep
should have said Tabanidae (horse flies, gad flies, stouts, clegs)
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/R38436.HTM

Who's Harry Potter?



Don't ask me I'm lost!


Fruit flies like bananas
Horse flies like XXXX?
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".....Fruit flies like bananas
Horse flies like XXXX? ....."

So if the adverts are right then
Horse flies are Australian


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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:50:11 +0100, "David Hill"
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".....Fruit flies like bananas
Horse flies like XXXX? ....."

So if the adverts are right then
Horse flies are Australian


Of course they are.
How else do you think they can sit upside down on the ceiling?
Where else do folks wear corks dangling from their hats :-)
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